aid: honeycomb
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/honeycomb/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
modified: '2026-03-20'
apis:
  - aid: honeycomb:api
    name: Honeycomb API
    tags:
      - Debugging
      - Monitoring
      - Observability
      - Telemetry
      - Tracing
    image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
    baseURL: https://api.honeycomb.io
    humanURL: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api
    properties:
      - url: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api
        type: Documentation
      - url: openapi/honeycomb-api-openapi.yml
        type: OpenAPI
    description: >-
      The Honeycomb API is a REST API that provides programmatic access to the Honeycomb
      observability platform. It enables developers to send events, manage datasets
      and columns, create and run queries, configure SLOs and burn alerts, set up
      triggers and recipients, manage boards and markers, and administer environments
      and API keys.
  - aid: honeycomb:events-api
    name: Honeycomb Events API
    tags:
      - Events
      - Ingestion
      - Observability
      - Telemetry
    image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
    baseURL: https://api.honeycomb.io
    humanURL: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api/events
    properties:
      - url: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api/events
        type: Documentation
      - url: openapi/honeycomb-events-api-openapi.yml
        type: OpenAPI
    description: >-
      The Honeycomb Events API is the lowest-level interface for sending event
      data to Honeycomb. It supports both single event creation and batch event
      submission, allowing developers to send structured telemetry data directly
      to Honeycomb datasets. While Honeycomb recommends using OpenTelemetry or
      Beeline SDKs for most instrumentation use cases, the Events API provides
      direct control for custom integrations and specialized data pipelines.
  - aid: honeycomb:queries-api
    name: Honeycomb Queries API
    tags:
      - Analytics
      - Data Analysis
      - Observability
      - Queries
    image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
    baseURL: https://api.honeycomb.io
    humanURL: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api/queries
    properties:
      - url: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api/queries
        type: Documentation
      - url: openapi/honeycomb-queries-api-openapi.yml
        type: OpenAPI
    description: >-
      The Honeycomb Queries API allows developers to programmatically create
      and manage query specifications within Honeycomb. Queries are used to
      identify and reference queries across other parts of the API, including
      boards, triggers, and query annotations. Developers can run queries
      asynchronously by creating a Query Result that references a Query ID,
      then polling the query result endpoint until the data is ready. The
      Query Data API complements this by providing access to query results.
  - aid: honeycomb:slos-api
    name: Honeycomb SLOs API
    tags:
      - Observability
      - Reliability
      - Service Level Objectives
      - SLOs
    image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
    baseURL: https://api.honeycomb.io
    humanURL: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api/slos
    properties:
      - url: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api/slos
        type: Documentation
      - url: openapi/honeycomb-slos-api-openapi.yml
        type: OpenAPI
    description: >-
      The Honeycomb SLOs API enables developers to define and monitor Service
      Level Objectives programmatically. It supports creating, listing,
      updating, and deleting SLO objects for an organization. Combined with
      the Burn Alerts API for notifications and the Reporting API for
      historical SLO performance analysis, it provides a complete interface
      for managing reliability targets and tracking error budgets over time.
  - aid: honeycomb:datasets-api
    name: Honeycomb Datasets API
    tags:
      - Data Management
      - Datasets
      - Observability
    image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
    baseURL: https://api.honeycomb.io
    humanURL: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api/datasets
    properties:
      - url: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api/datasets
        type: Documentation
      - url: openapi/honeycomb-datasets-api-openapi.yml
        type: OpenAPI
    description: >-
      The Honeycomb Datasets API provides management capabilities for datasets,
      which represent collections of related events from the same source. It
      allows developers to list, create, and update datasets programmatically.
      The related Columns API enables management of fields within datasets,
      including listing, creating, updating, and deleting columns that define
      the structure of event data stored in Honeycomb.
  - aid: honeycomb:boards-api
    name: Honeycomb Boards API
    tags:
      - Dashboards
      - Observability
      - Visualization
    image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
    baseURL: https://api.honeycomb.io
    humanURL: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api/boards
    properties:
      - url: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api/boards
        type: Documentation
      - url: openapi/honeycomb-boards-api-openapi.yml
        type: OpenAPI
    description: >-
      The Honeycomb Boards API allows developers to programmatically create
      and manage boards, which are collections of queries displayed together
      as a dashboard-like view. Boards provide a way to organize and share
      related queries for monitoring and debugging workflows. The API supports
      listing, creating, updating, and deleting boards, making it possible to
      automate the setup of observability dashboards across environments.
  - aid: honeycomb:markers-api
    name: Honeycomb Markers API
    tags:
      - Annotations
      - Deployments
      - Markers
      - Observability
    image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
    baseURL: https://api.honeycomb.io
    humanURL: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api/marker-settings
    properties:
      - url: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api/marker-settings
        type: Documentation
      - url: openapi/honeycomb-markers-api-openapi.yml
        type: OpenAPI
    description: >-
      The Honeycomb Markers API enables developers to create and manage markers
      that indicate points in time on graphs where notable events occurred,
      such as deploys, configuration changes, or outages. Marker Settings
      allow grouping similar markers together with consistent visual styling.
      The API supports listing, creating, updating, and deleting both markers
      and marker settings, making it straightforward to integrate deployment
      pipelines and incident workflows with Honeycomb visualizations.
  - aid: honeycomb:triggers-api
    name: Honeycomb Triggers API
    tags:
      - Alerts
      - Monitoring
      - Notifications
      - Observability
    image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
    baseURL: https://api.honeycomb.io
    humanURL: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api/triggers
    properties:
      - url: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api/triggers
        type: Documentation
      - url: openapi/honeycomb-triggers-api-openapi.yml
        type: OpenAPI
    description: >-
      The Honeycomb Triggers API allows developers to programmatically configure
      alerting rules that fire when query results meet specified conditions.
      Triggers work in conjunction with the Recipients API, which manages
      notification destinations including PagerDuty, Email, Webhook, Microsoft
      Teams, and Slack. The API supports listing, creating, updating, and
      deleting triggers, enabling automated setup of alerting workflows for
      production observability.
  - aid: honeycomb:environments-api
    name: Honeycomb Environments API
    tags:
      - Administration
      - Environments
      - Observability
    image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
    baseURL: https://api.honeycomb.io
    humanURL: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api/environments
    properties:
      - url: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api/environments
        type: Documentation
      - url: openapi/honeycomb-environments-api-openapi.yml
        type: OpenAPI
    description: >-
      The Honeycomb Environments API provides administrative capabilities for
      managing environments within a Honeycomb team. Environments allow
      organizations to separate telemetry data across different stages such
      as development, staging, and production. The API supports listing,
      creating, updating, and deleting environments, along with the Auth API
      for validating API keys and determining their associated team and
      environment permissions.
common:
  - type: JSON-LD
    url: json-ld/honeycomb-context.jsonld
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/honeycomb-event-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/honeycomb-query-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/honeycomb-slo-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/honeycomb-trigger-schema.json
description: >-
  Build integrations and automate workflows with the Honeycomb API. Programmatically
  manage datasets, queries, triggers, SLOs, environments, API keys, and more.