Measuring Claude Code ROI and Adoption in Honeycomb

At Honeycomb, the engineering team has been utilizing Claude Code, and efforts have been made to measure its adoption, usage, and cost-effectiveness through telemetry integration with Honeycomb's analytics platform. By configuring Claude Code to send logs and metrics via OpenTelemetry, the team was able to monitor its usage within their primary monorepo and gain insights into API requests, tool executions, user interactions, and error occurrences. To facilitate comprehensive monitoring, the Honeycomb MCP server was set up, allowing Claude Code to autonomously generate a dashboard that answers key questions regarding user engagement, cost management, developer experience, and performance reliability. This setup not only enabled the team to track adoption rates and expenditures but also highlighted tools' usage patterns and potential issues, such as API latency or tool execution rejections. For users seeking a simpler setup, Honeycomb offers pre-built board templates tailored to monitor Claude Code's ROI, cost, usage, and performance metrics.