Honeycomb MCP

Query telemetry, run BubbleUp, read traces, and manage Boards, Triggers and SLOs.

honeycomb.io

Before you connect: what this server would do

A preview derived from this server’s definition — not a live run. Nothing runs and no key is sent until you connect. You connect directly to the provider’s own server with their sign-in.

Tools it can use (34)

get_workspace_context
Team name, current time, environments.
get_environment
One environment, its datasets and fields.
get_dataset
Dataset metadata and full column schema.
get_dataset_columns
Column schema with optional sample values.
run_query
Run a time-series aggregation query.
get_query_results
Results of a previous run.
find_queries
Search query history and saved queries by intent.
find_columns
Find columns by intent across datasets.
run_bubbleup
BubbleUp differential analysis.
get_trace
All spans for a trace, as a waterfall.
list_spans
Span names ranked by count.
get_span_details
Attribute summary for a span name.
get_service_map
Service dependencies (Enterprise only).
get_anomaly_service_profiles
Anomaly-detection profiles.
search_semconv
Search the semantic-convention registry.
get_semconv_attribute
Full attribute definitions.
list_semconv_namespaces
Top-level semconv namespaces.
list_boards
List Boards.
create_board
Create a Board.
update_board
Update a Board.
get_triggers
Read Triggers.
create_trigger
Create a Trigger.
update_trigger
Update a Trigger.
get_slos
Read SLOs.
create_slo
Create an SLO, auto-creating its SLI column.
update_slo
Update an SLO.
list_recipients
Notification destinations.
create_recipient
Add a notification destination.
canvas_agent_invoke
Send a message to the Canvas agent.
canvas_agent_poll_response
Poll the Canvas agent for a reply.
list_aiconversations
Other agents gen_ai telemetry.
get_aiconversation
Full event timeline for one conversation.
refinery_docs
Refinery documentation.
feedback
Send feedback to Honeycomb.

Credentials it will ask for (1)

Honeycomb Management API Key· optional
Used with: mcp.honeycomb.io, mcp.eu1.honeycomb.io

What FindAgent checked

It passed an automated security scan and a human review before it was published here.
Your client talks to this server directly, so FindAgent’s run-time protections — the prompt-injection deny-list on what you send, the secret-leak scan on every result, the credential-to-host binding, the approval gates — do not apply to what you send or receive here.

How FindAgent keeps servers safe

Connect over MCP — runs anywhere

Honeycomb MCP is a remote MCP server. Add its URL to any MCP-capable client — FindAgent lists it; it runs on the provider's own infrastructure.

1 · Choose your client

2 · Add the server URL

remote MCP

https://mcp.honeycomb.io/mcp

ChatGPT (Plus / Pro): Settings → Connectors → add a remote MCP server, then paste the URL and approve it.

Open ChatGPT connectors

You add this server inside your client and approve it once — that in-client step is a security check, so there's no one-click button for it.

What you'll need — and where to get it

You give these to the server itself when it signs you in. They never pass through FindAgent, so we neither store them nor control where they go.

Honeycomb Management API Key · optional
Team-owners only. Value is `<KEY_ID>:<SECRET_KEY>`; Honeycomb advise scoping it to MCP and Environments only.Get this from mcp.honeycomb.io's account or API settings.Paste the value as a single line.Used with: mcp.honeycomb.io, mcp.eu1.honeycomb.io