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Edit Triggers, SLOs, and Boards in Canvas
New You can now create or update Triggers, SLOs, and Boards using Canvas. Edits always require human approval and are not available to the agent during automatic investigations.
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Honeycomb Canvas Connectors: Now in Beta
New Connectors allow you to bring your tools into the canvas. Available connectors in beta: Linear Github
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Authorize multiple teams through OAuth.
New When authorizing an MCP client to the Honeycomb MCP Server, you may now select multiple teams at once. Each team can have unique read/write permissions. If multiple teams are selected, your agent will need to pass a team parameter when making tool calls to disambiguate.
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Filters are live for your Agent Conversations
Improvement Filter by any custom attribute - email, user ID, agent name, and more to land on the Conversations that matter. It's the fastest path from "here are all of my Conversations" to "here's the one Agent Conversation I need to debug."
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Activity Log is now generally available
New Activity Log has graduated from beta and is now generally available for Honeycomb Enterprise customers. Activity Log gives you a detailed record of user activity and resource changes in Honeycomb — who changed what, and when. Since launching in open beta, teams have been using it for: Change investigation: Trace account changes, or configure alerts on critical updates via - Triggers on Activit…
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Usage notifications can now be sent to any email address
Improvement When configuring who receives usage notifications, you can now send them to any email address — not just Honeycomb team members. This opens up broader integration possibilities, such as: Routing usage notifications to a Slack channel via a channel email address Sending notifications to a shared team alias or distribution list Forwarding usage alerts into other platforms that accept inb…
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Agent Timeline is GA!
New Agent Timeline gives you visibility into your multi-agent, multi-trace AI workflows - LLM calls, tool invocations, token, messages, and failures, all in one place. Here's what's included: Conversations View: browse agent conversations across the last 60 days with agents, tool calls, tokens, P95 latency, and failure counts at a glance Agent Timeline: open any conversation to see duration, model…
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Introducing the new Canvas
New This release brings a redesigned investigation surface built for how teams work today: with multiple humans and multiple agents collaborating on the same investigation in real time, agents that act autonomously when alerts fire, executable knowledge that teaches them how your systems work, and connections to the tools where your code lives. Auto-investigations When a trigger fires, an SLO burn…
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BubbleUp Insights
New BubbleUp Insights analyzes your BubbleUp results for you to quickly surface notable differences and potential root causes in your data. Insights will load automatically when running a BubbleUp in Query Results for all teams opted in to the Honeycomb Intelligence Terms. You can still analyze and interact with BubbleUp yourself using the charts below the Notable Differences section.
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Dark Mode
New Honeycomb is now easier on the eyes during late-night incidents. Honeycomb now supports dark mode across the entire product. It follows your system preference automatically or you can toggle it manually in the left nav.
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Ask Canvas: Now in Beta
New With Ask Canvas, you can ask questions about the data you're looking at in Honeycomb! For example, ask "tell me about this query" for an instant plain-language summary of your query and results. Canvas chat is context-aware, so you can skip straight to the interesting questions. Ask Canvas is available on most pages in Honeycomb. To get started: Click "Ask about this data" at the bottom of any…
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Honeycomb Canvas Slack App: Now in Beta
New Honeycomb Canvas is a new Slack app that lets your team ask questions of your Honeycomb data without leaving Slack. Mention it in any channel to investigate a production issue, explore a service, or get a quick answer — no context-switching required. Example questions. you can ask: @Honeycomb Canvas what's the error rate for the auth service today? @Honeycomb Canvas show me p99 latency for che…
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Now on Home: Ask Questions with Canvas
New You can now ask questions of your system directly on the Home page with Canvas. Quickly dive into an investigation to get answers fast!
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Gen AI tab on Traces
New When investigating traces from a generative AI agent or application, the trace sidebar now includes a dedicated Gen AI tab that surfaces AI-specific context alongside the standard Fields, Span Events, and Links tabs. In the Gen AI tab, you can see what messages were exchanged, what model was used, how many tokens were consumed, and if response quality evaluations passed without manually scanni…
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Introducing @Honeycomb Canvas in Slack
New Honeycomb Canvas is a new Slack app that lets your team ask questions of your Honeycomb data without leaving Slack. Mention it in any channel to investigate a production issue, explore a service, or get a quick answer — no context-switching required. Example questions. you can ask: @Honeycomb Canvas what's the error rate for the auth service today? @Honeycomb Canvas show me p99 latency for che…
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Query Math is now available for all datasets and Triggers
New Query Math lets you define multi-step queries and perform math across their results directly in the Query Builder, now available across all your datasets. No calculated fields required. Each step has its own SELECT, WHERE, and GROUP BY clauses, and you combine them using simple formulas like ($A / $B) * 100. Give each formula a name and it carries through to your visualizations, keeping your c…
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Canvas Alert Investigations
New You can now launch an AI-powered investigation with Canvas directly from a Trigger or SLO Burn Alert. Trigger and SLO Burn Alert notifications sent to Slack, PagerDuty, and Email now include an ✨ Investigate link. Clicking this link starts an automatic investigation with information gathered about your alert, including trigger or SLO details, thresholds, and datasets. Use Canvas Alert Investig…
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Thresholds for Charts is Now Available
New You can now add thresholds to time series charts, including: line, stacked area, stat, and bar charts and save them to Boards or your Saved Queries. Thresholds help you quickly see system health and spot when your data cross values that require additional attention or action. To add a threshold, select Modify Chart from your query results and select a threshold value, color and label. When you…
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Errors for Frontend Observability is now Generally Available
New This GA release brings broader platform coverage and faster debugging for frontend teams. Highlights Readable Stack Traces Across All SDKs: Errors GA delivers human-readable stack traces via Honeycomb’s Symbolicator plugins reducing time spent deciphering minified or opaque error output Improved Android Exception Handling: Native Android applications now benefit from symbolicated uncaught exce…
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Save Views on Boards
New You can now save filter configurations on Boards as views! Views preserve your exact filter settings so you can return to the precise context you need with a single click, eliminating the need to rebuild the same scope each time. Begin by defining filters. Once you've assigned specific values to each filter dropdown, select Save as view and name your view. When you next return to the Board, si…
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Hide Other Category Data on Categorical Charts
New Categorical charts have a new setting: the ability to hide the other category data. Other category data can help give a holistic understanding of how different groups compare to the total, but sometimes, you want to focus in on what matters. This is particularly useful on high cardinality fields, where other category data may make up a large percentage of the total.
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Preset Filters on Boards
New You can now set preset filters on a Board to guide how its data is explored. These filters give every user quick access to the most useful slices of data, ensuring consistent and relevant results, without needing to know which fields matter beforehand. Learn more in our docs.
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SLO Details Heatmap now supports Actions
Improvement The SLO Details Heatmap now displays SLI success and failure rates on two separate graphs, and supports hover details and click actions, including the ability to click to a trace.
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✨ Canvas — Custom Context for Team Prompts
Improvement Canvas now supports team-level custom context that is automatically included in every prompt your teammates send through Canvas. You can use this to provide shared background information, domain-specific details, team conventions, or anything else that should consistently guide Canvas’ reasoning. Once set, the context is seamlessly prepended to all Canvas interactions—no extra steps re…
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SLO Monitoring now supports Burn Rate configuration
Improvement You can now specify a SLO Burn Alert in terms of a target Burn Rate for alerting. Burn rates provide another way to intuitively prescribe alerting conditions for your SLOs. Example: Specifying a Burn Rate allows you to target a rate of error budget consumption. With the ideal 1x burn rate, the SLO budget is consumed at exactly the end of the SLO window. A 2x burn rate burns through bud…
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Calculated Fields now support infix arithmetic, logical, and comparison operators
Improvement You can now use infix arithmetic, logical, and comparison operators when defining a Calculated Field. Infix notation makes authoring easier by allowing the use of mathematical symbols like “/“ in place of function equivalents like “DIV” (function syntax may still be used if preferred). Example: Infix notation $app.filter value.counts / $app.filter value.max_value Function syntax DIV($"…