beeline-migrationStep-by-step guide for migrating from Honeycomb Beelines (End of Life) to OpenTelemetry instrumentation. Trigger phrases: "migrate from Beelines", "upgrade from Beeline to OpenTelemetry", "migrate to OTel", "replace Beelines", "Beeline end of life", "Beeline EOL", "switch from Beeline to OTel", "mig
create-honeycomb-boardDesign and then create a board (dashboard) in Honeycomb with queries and SLOs. Trigger phrases: "create a board", "make a board", "build a dashboard", "create a Honeycomb board", "make a dashboard in Honeycomb", "set up a board", "dashboard for my service", "visualize service health", "golden signal
metrics-queriesHow to query OpenTelemetry metrics datasets in Honeycomb correctly. Metrics datasets follow different rules from trace/event datasets — many operations (bare COUNT, RATE_SUM, RATE_AVG, RATE_MAX, CONCURRENCY) are forbidden, temporal aggregation is automatic, and each metric has its own attributes. Us
observability-fundamentalsFirst principles behind observability — wide events, high cardinality, the core analysis loop, events vs metrics vs logs, and how instrumentation connects to debugging outcomes. Grounds recommendations in first principles rather than tool-specific how-to. Trigger phrases: "what is observability", "w
otel-genai-instrumentationGuides instrumentation of GenAI/LLM applications with OpenTelemetry for Honeycomb, including content capture and agent failure detection. Trigger phrases: "instrument my GenAI app", "add tracing to LLM calls", "trace AI agent", "instrument OpenAI", "instrument Anthropic", "GenAI observability", "tra
otel-instrumentationProvides guidance on OpenTelemetry SDK setup, custom instrumentation, and sending data to Honeycomb. Trigger phrases: "instrument my app", "add tracing", "set up OpenTelemetry", "configure OTel", "add custom spans", "add attributes to spans", "send traces to Honeycomb", "set up OTLP", "configure sam
otel-migrationGuide for retrofitting OpenTelemetry into an existing, uninstrumented application. Trigger phrases: "migrate existing app to OTel", "add OpenTelemetry to existing project", "retrofit OTel into my codebase", "thread context through my code", "context propagation", "bridge Prometheus metrics to OTel",
production-investigationStructured workflows for investigating production issues in Honeycomb — the sequence of tool calls (context priming, broad query, BubbleUp, trace analysis, verification) and how to chain results between steps to reach root causes. Trigger phrases: "investigate production issue", "debug latency spike
query-patternsOpinionated guidance for constructing and interpreting Honeycomb queries on trace and event datasets — operation selection (percentiles not AVG, HEATMAP for distributions), relational field patterns (root., parent., any., none.), calculated fields, query math, and result interpretation (P99/P50 rati
slos-and-triggersDecision heuristics for interpreting Honeycomb SLO compliance, budget burn rates, and trigger status — what the numbers mean and what action to take, including detecting misconfigured SLIs, deciding when to freeze deploys vs page on-call, and designing burn alert thresholds. Load this skill before c
verify-recent-traceFind a recent trace in Honeycomb, to see what happened in a recent test. Use when asked to "verify in Honeycomb", "find the most recent trace", or "show me the trace". version: "1.0.0" - mcp__honeycomb__run_query - mcp__honeycomb__get_trace - mcp__honeycomb__get_query_results - mcp__honeycomb__find_