observability
Honeycomb
Connect your Honeycomb environment to let agents query datasets, check trigger statuses, and investigate production incidents. Agents use your observability data to understand system behavior and identify root causes.
Connect
Connect Honeycomb from the terminal. Pass --help for the flags Honeycomb accepts.
Terminal
polylane integration connect --type honeycombAPI key for the Honeycomb environment you want to query.
Connect Honeycomb so agents can query your datasets and traces during investigations.
Setup
- In Honeycomb, go to Team Settings → API Keys.
- Select the environment that contains the data you want agents to query.
- Create a key, or reuse one, with read permissions.
- Choose your region (US or EU).
- Paste the API key into Polylane.
You can connect multiple environments by adding a separate integration for each. Your key is encrypted before it is stored, and the agent never sees it.
What agents can do
- Query datasets and run analyses
- Inspect traces to follow a request across services
- Check trigger statuses during investigations
Disconnecting
Disconnect Honeycomb in Polylane, then revoke the API key in Honeycomb.
Tools
7Operations agents can perform in threads and automations.
Api
Call any Honeycomb REST endpoint that lacks a dedicated tool
Run Query
Run a query against a Honeycomb dataset
Datasets
Read Honeycomb datasets and their columns
Triggers
Read or create Honeycomb triggers (alerts)
Boards
Read or create Honeycomb boards (dashboards)
S L Os
Read or create Honeycomb Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
Markers
List or create markers in a Honeycomb dataset
Automation triggers
1Events from Honeycomb that can start an automation.
Alert
Fires every time a connected observability provider sends an alert webhook to Polylane.
Automation templates
10Pre-built automations that use Honeycomb. Open one to see its trigger, instructions, and actions.
Generate weekly report
Compile a weekly engineering report covering incidents and deployments
Daily Honeycomb infrastructure audit
Run a daily audit of your Honeycomb observability setup and flag gaps in monitoring
On-call handoff brief
Monday morning briefing summarizing all incidents, alerts, deployments, and infrastructure changes since the last handoff
Monitor SLA compliance
Track service level objectives and alert when SLOs are at risk of being breached
Honeycomb alert noise reduction report
Identify noisy Honeycomb alerts that fire frequently without actionable outcomes
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Capacity planning report
Forecast resource usage trends and flag services approaching capacity limits
Monthly incident trends
Monthly analysis of incident patterns, root causes, and team response effectiveness
On-call load report
Analyze on-call burden per team including pages, interruptions, and off-hours alerts
Daily platform health summary
Morning briefing on overall platform health for engineering leadership
Daily Honeycomb error review
Proactive daily scan of Honeycomb errors, surfacing new patterns and regressions