honeycomb.io
Honeycomb is an observability platform for exploring telemetry from distributed systems and applications. It helps teams investigate performance, reliability, and behavior using high-cardinality event, trace, and related operational data.
Honeycomb exposes a region-specific REST API with an OpenAPI spec and a streamable-HTTP MCP server; both require Honeycomb-issued credentials, with MCP supporting either OAuth or API-key authentication.
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In Honeycomb, go to Account → Team Settings → API Keys to create or manage API keys. Honeycomb issues three key types documented at Authentication: Ingest Keys, Configuration Keys, and Management Keys. For REST API use, send either an Ingest/Configuration key in X-Honeycomb-Team, or a Management Key as Authorization: Bearer <key ID>:<secret>, depending on endpoint permissions. For MCP API-key auth, the troubleshooting guide says to use the API key in the form <Key ID>:<Secret Key> and some clients may pass that directly as the Authorization header. Store the secret at creation time; Honeycomb only returns some secrets once.
Point your MCP client at the server URL and approve access in the browser. The server accepts a Client ID Metadata Document (CIMD), so the client authenticates with its own hosted URL as the client_id — nothing to register.
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- integrations.json——
- llms.txt✓https://honeycomb.io/llms.txt
- API catalog✗
/.well-known/api-catalog - OpenAPI document✗
/api/schema/, /openapi.json, /swagger.json, /api/openapi.json, or /v1/openapi.json - MCP server card✗
/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json - OAuth protected resource✗
/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource - Agent card✗
/.well-known/agent-card.json - Agent skills✗
/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json
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