OpenTelemetry that just works
Honeycomb’s industry-leading support for OpenTelemetry lets you maximize the value of your data with less effort. Whether you’re just getting started or scaling your OpenTelemetry implementation, Honeycomb is your trusted partner.
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Why you’ll love Honeycomb
Unified observability
View your data from any angle—whether as traces, logs, or graphs—and uncover actionable insights effortlessly. Developers can consolidate their observability on a single platform without vendor lock-in or experiment with multiple tools.
Fix issues faster than ever
Pinpoint anomalies and rapidly resolve issues. Honeycomb is purpose-built for high-cardinality OpenTelemetry data, delivering sub-second query responses for even the most complex datasets.
Collaborative troubleshooting
Share trace waterfalls, navigate service maps, or dive into logs—all with links that maintain full context. Our engineer-friendly interface ensures teams can collaborate effortlessly, working from the same rich data.
The best platform for your OpenTelemetry data
Discover how OpenTelemetry helps developers, SREs, and engineering teams deliver better software.
Why you need OpenTelemetry
Why you need OpenTelemetry
Full-stack observability
Honeycomb’s integrated platform accepts structured telemetry from any source, replacing the need for separate APM, RUM, and monitoring tools. Add custom attributes—for free—and get instant aggregations to unlock the full context of your applications, from backend systems to frontend performance. Navigate between traces, logs, and metrics in a unified interface to resolve issues faster and deliver better experiences.
Boost team productivity
Honeycomb unlocks the true value of OpenTelemetry by enabling engineers at all levels to debug production systems, optimize performance, and gain actionable insights. With Honeycomb, you reduce the cost of managing telemetry and increase engineering efficiency, empowering teams to focus on delivering reliable, high-performance software.
Ingest and manage data at scale
Honeycomb integrates with your existing agents and Collectors through OpenTelemetry to streamline telemetry ingestion from your current systems. Preprocess, enrich, and dynamically route data to Honeycomb or other destinations, ensuring flexibility and control. Scale your observability with ease using Honeycomb’s support for Collector/agent management, enabling centralized control over diverse telemetry sources. Learn more about the Telemetry Pipeline.
OpenTelemetry documentation
Whether you’re just starting or scaling your implementation, our step-by-step guides, best practices, and detailed examples simplify the process for developers and platform engineers alike. Backed by our expertise as active OpenTelemetry contributors, the documentation empowers you to instrument, optimize, and get value from your telemetry faster—so you can focus on delivering exceptional software. Send data with OpenTelemetry.
OpenTelemetry expertise, built in
Honeycomb plays a vital role in the OpenTelemetry community as Maintainers, Approvers, and Ambassadors. Our contributions give us unparalleled knowledge, making us the trusted partner to guide your observability journey with confidence and precision.
5+
years of partnership with the OpenTelemetry project, since its launch
20%
of engineers at Honeycomb contribute to OpenTelemetry
5
of our engineers were top contributors to OpenTelemetry in 2024
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Guide
The Director's Guide to Observability: Unlocking Value with OpenTelemetry
This guide provides engineering leaders and decision-makers with actionable insights into building an observability strategy using OpenTelemetry. Learn how to align teams, reduce tool sprawl, and maximize the value of telemetry data to improve system performance while controlling costs.
- Why observability is the foundation of complex systems
- What the building blocks of observability are
- How observability and OpenTelemetry work together
- What to do if you don’t use OpenTelemetry
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OpenTelemetry
March 7, 2024
OpenTelemetry Best Practices #1: Naming
Naming things, and specifically consistently naming things, is still one of the most useful pieces of work you can do in telemetry. It’s often overlooked as something that will just happen naturally and won’t cause too much of an issue—but it doesn’t happen naturally, it does cause issues, and you end up having to fix the data in pipelines or your backend tool.
Observability
June 27, 2023
How to Trial Honeycomb and OpenTelemetry
Insightful proof-of-concepts with a tool can be difficult to undertake due to the demands on valuable resources: time, energy, and people. With a task as grand as observability, how could one truly test if Honeycomb and OpenTelemetry are right for their organization and meet their requirements? For this thought experiment, here’s a comprehensive description of the ideal product evaluation over the course of four weeks, given unlimited resources.
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