Introducing Honeycomb Service Map: A Dynamic, Interactive, and Actionable View of Your Entire Environment
Blog post from Honeycomb
Honeycomb has introduced the Service Map, a feature designed to enhance the visualization and understanding of complex service environments by allowing users to analyze and filter communication between their services. This tool is part of Honeycomb Enterprise plans but is temporarily available to all users for free until the end of 2022, providing an opportunity for evaluation before potential upgrades. Users with Honeycomb Classic datasets must migrate to Environments to utilize this feature, which automatically generates maps from trace data. The Service Map offers advanced filtering capabilities, enabling users to gain insights into service performance, relationships, and dependencies, and assists in tasks such as onboarding and instrumentation validation. It also allows users to explore specific traces and performance metrics over customizable time ranges. After 2022, the Service Map will be exclusive to Honeycomb Enterprise users, encouraging those interested to explore its capabilities during the promotional period.