# Honeycomb

Honeycomb is an observability platform for engineering teams running distributed services and AI systems. It uses high-cardinality, event-based data so engineers can query production in real time without sampling or preaggregation. It covers distributed tracing, metrics, log analytics, telemetry pipelines, and observability for LLM and agent workflows.

Page: https://slateindex.ai/brand/honeycomb · data of 2026-11-03

## Facts

- Founded: 2016
- Headquarters: San Francisco, CA, United States
- Employees: 201–500
- Company type: Private, venture-backed
- Latest funding: Series C
- Deployment: Cloud-hosted, with a Honeycomb Private Cloud option
- Best for: Engineering teams running distributed services and AI agents in production, including dev, ops, SRE, and platform teams
- Compliance: SOC 2 Type II

## Products

- Distributed Tracing & Analysis: Real-time investigation of high-cardinality production data with heatmaps, BubbleUp, and SLOs.
- Canvas, Team Agents & MCP: A Canvas co-pilot for shared investigation, Team Agents that run investigations, and an MCP server that gives AI tools production context.
- AI Ecosystem: Fleet-wide monitoring of AI agents, including LLM calls, failures, token cost, and latency per model.
- Honeycomb Metrics: Metrics product generally available to all customers since March 2026.
- Log Management & Analytics: Log analysis within the same unified platform as traces and metrics.
- Telemetry Pipelines: OpenTelemetry-based processing and management of telemetry data before it is stored.

## Rankings

| Category | Rank | Visibility | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Observability | 9 of 45 | 14.1 | 31 |

## By engine

| Engine | Visibility | Mention rate |
|---|---|---|
| chatgpt | 15.2 | 44.4% |
| google_ai_mode | 13.0 | 33.3% |
| perplexity | 14.3 | 37.0% |

## Definitions

- Visibility (0–100): how often and how high AI answers name the brand, weighted by position.
- Mention rate: share of collected AI answers that name the brand.
- Share of voice: the brand's mentions as a share of all brand mentions in the category.
- Citation authority: share of answers naming the brand that cite the brand's own site.

Cite as: SlateIndex, “Honeycomb AI visibility profile”, https://slateindex.ai/brand/honeycomb, data of 2026-11-03. Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).