Honeycomb announced a major milestone in helping enterprises maximize the value of their observability data.
Building towards a fully integrated telemetry pipeline, Honeycomb adds the ability to access archived telemetry data with a single click for full fidelity analysis from low cost storage, as well as powerful new ways to sample telemetry data and control costs. Honeycomb's latest release will help enterprises enable their engineers at all levels to debug production systems, optimize performance, and gain actionable insights while controlling observability spend.
Honeycomb helps customers mitigate the risk of AI in production by giving them fast access to the right contextual data without added overhead, out of control observability spend or operational complexity.
"Telemetry pipelines have rapidly become essential infrastructure, but managing data volume is just the baseline," said Christine Yen, CEO of Honeycomb. "We envision a future where pipelines truly integrated into observability platforms can dynamically link data ingestion to its actual usage, fundamentally reshaping how engineering teams manage their observability costs. With our new ability to enhance datasets, we've effectively eliminated the tradeoffs in data management, ensuring teams retain access to all their critical telemetry—even the bits they hadn't thought would matter. True lossless observability is now a reality."
The new capabilities provide teams with complete control over telemetry pipelines so they can get clarity about how their systems and services behave in production, for any subset of users, with no dead ends.
- Enhance provides full-fidelity data on demand and in budget: Honeycomb users now don't have to think about where their data lives or wait for rehydration. They can instantly retrieve dropped or expired logs and traces from their own S3, right from the Honeycomb UI during escalations, audits or incident retrospectives. This unlocks analysis of full-fidelity data when it matters most without unnecessary spend or disrupted investigations.
- Pipeline Builder enables customized control without complexity: A built-in graphical interface eliminates the need for working with YAML or external configuration. Teams can now adapt their telemetry strategy on the fly by building pipelines for receiving, transforming and exporting data, and applying tail-based sampling for managing data volumes. This intuitive UI empowers developers, SREs and observability teams to capture the right signals to accelerate troubleshooting and tune their data strategy with ease. This enables a future where a fully integrated Pipeline Builder sets the stage for tight feedback loops between your telemetry and the insights you surface.
These capabilities paired with Honeycomb's support for OpenTelemetry helps enterprises to scale their adoption of the open standard. Teams can also centrally manage large fleets of OpenTelemetry Collectors across Linux, Windows, Kubernetes and even legacy environments from one unified control plane. This allows Honeycomb customers to centrally manage, configure and monitor large-scale OpenTelemetry deployments while minimizing operational overhead.
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