Feature Focus: September 2022

In September, Honeycomb introduced several updates to enhance its API functionalities, data integrations, and tooling. Notably, the dataset API now allows programmatic updates to dataset definitions, and the SLO API includes new features for tracking compliance and budget details. The platform has expanded its support for OTLP data ingestion, now including HTTP/JSON, and released improvements to its Refinery trace sampling tool, emphasizing better validation and diagnostics. A new integration with Terraformer simplifies managing Honeycomb resources as code, while the PagerDuty integration now attaches relevant graph images to alerts. GitHub Actions users benefit from the updated gha-buildevents utility, which offers comprehensive workflow tracing capabilities. Additional updates include enhancements to the Derived Column editor and the resolution of a copy button issue in documentation, with all changes documented in Honeycomb’s changelog and shared on social media platforms.