OpenTelemetry that just works
Honeycomb’s industry-leading support for OpenTelemetry lets you maximize the value of your data with less effort—including the nondeterministic telemetry AI agents produce. Whether you’re just starting out or scaling up, Honeycomb is your trusted partner.
Why you’ll love Honeycomb
Unified observability
View your data from any angle—traces, logs, or graphs—and uncover insights effortlessly. Humans and agents share one platform, one source of truth, with no vendor lock-in.
Fix issues faster than ever
Pinpoint anomalies and resolve issues fast—including the nondeterministic ones AI workflows produce. Honeycomb is purpose-built for high-cardinality OpenTelemetry data, with sub-second queries.
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 and AI copilots 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
Full-stack observability
Honeycomb’s integrated platform accepts structured telemetry from any source—including AI agents—replacing the need for separate APM, RUM, and monitoring tools. Add custom attributes for free and unlock full context: backend, frontend, and agent behavior, all in one interface. Read the Embrace partnership announcement.
Boost team productivity
Honeycomb unlocks the true value of OpenTelemetry, making every engineer—and every AI copilot—able to debug production systems and act on insights fast. Less time managing telemetry, more time shipping reliable software.
Ingest and manage data at scale
Honeycomb integrates with your existing agents and Collectors through OpenTelemetry to streamline ingestion at scale. With Refinery 3.0 and Enhance Indexing now generally available, you get smarter sampling and faster queries without adding operational overhead. Read about the latest Telemetry Pipeline enhancements.
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.
AI agent observability, the same way
Instrument LLM calls, tool invocations, and agent handoffs using OpenTelemetry’s GenAI semantic conventions. Because it’s a standard, not a proprietary schema, your instrumentation keeps working as you swap models, frameworks, or providers. Read the Instrumenting AI Agents guide.
OpenTelemetry expertise, built in
Honeycomb plays a vital role in the OpenTelemetry community as Maintainers, Approvers, and Ambassadors—work that matters more as AI reshapes how software gets built. That gives us unmatched expertise to guide your observability journey.
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
Meet the faces behind our contributions to OpenTelemetry
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
Hear from our community
As one of the largest contributors in the OpenTelemetry space, Honeycomb shares our belief in open standards and transparency. We are excited to collaborate with them to further enhance observability and data integration within our systems.
OpenTelemetry generates high-quality, flexible telemetry data while Honeycomb’s native support for it made the two a winning combination. The instrumentation process was really straightforward thanks to Honeycomb’s SDK.
We are adopting OpenTelemetry, and with this transition, we expect us to first standardize and then once we have that, being able to switch from reactive to become more proactive monitoring.
Want to know more?
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