Honeycomb

Honeycomb is an observability platform for modern software engineering. Its product unifies logs, metrics and traces in a single query engine, built on a proprietary columnar database designed for high-cardinality telemetry. The system is intended for debugging complex, distributed systems in real time; queries return results in sub-second time, which the company says removes the usual tradeoff between data volume and query performance.

The platform supports event-based observability, AI-assisted debugging and automated anomaly detection, and is OpenTelemetry-native, with integrations spanning the software development lifecycle. Its infrastructure runs on AWS Graviton ARM processors. Collaborative investigation workflows allow engineering teams to work on problems together.

Honeycomb serves thousands of companies worldwide, with named enterprise customers including Slack, Intercom, Dropbox and Booking.com. The company was founded by former Facebook engineers Christine Yen and Charity Majors, and is credited with pioneering the event-based approach to observability. Its stated engineering focus is on making production systems comprehensible at any scale.