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Honeycomb

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Skills, agents, and workflows for Honeycomb observability — query patterns, production investigations, SLOs, OpenTelemetry instrumentation, and Beeline migration. Designed to complement the Honeycomb MCP server.

Plugin · by honeycombio · runs in Claude Code, Cowork, claude.ai · 11 skills, 1 MCP server, 1 command, 2 agents, 2 hooks · listed 2026-06-30

Claude Code

claude plugin install honeycomb

Skills (11)

  • Skill beeline-migration

    Migrating from Honeycomb Beelines (End of Life) to OpenTelemetry. Trigger phrases: "migrate from Beelines", "upgrade from Beeline to OpenTelemetry", "migrate to OTel", "replace Beelines", "Beeline…

    Any agent

    npx skills add honeycombio/agent-skill --skill beeline-migration
  • Skill create-honeycomb-board

    Design and create a Honeycomb board (dashboard) with queries and SLOs. Trigger phrases: "make a board", "build a dashboard", "create a Honeycomb board", "make a dashboard in Honeycomb", "set up a…

    Any agent

    npx skills add honeycombio/agent-skill --skill create-honeycomb-board
  • Skill metrics-queries

    Querying OpenTelemetry metrics datasets in Honeycomb, whose rules differ from trace/event datasets: bare COUNT, RATE_SUM, RATE_AVG, RATE_MAX and CONCURRENCY are forbidden, temporal aggregation is…

    Any agent

    npx skills add honeycombio/agent-skill --skill metrics-queries
  • Skill observability-fundamentals

    First principles of observability: wide events, high cardinality, the core analysis loop, events vs metrics vs logs, and how instrumentation connects to debugging.

    Any agent

    npx skills add honeycombio/agent-skill --skill observability-fundamentals
  • Skill otel-genai-instrumentation

    Instrumenting GenAI/LLM applications with OpenTelemetry for Honeycomb, including content capture and agent failure detection.

    Any agent

    npx skills add honeycombio/agent-skill --skill otel-genai-instrumentation
  • Skill otel-instrumentation

    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"…

    Any agent

    npx skills add honeycombio/agent-skill --skill otel-instrumentation
  • Skill otel-migration

    Retrofitting OpenTelemetry into an existing, uninstrumented application. Trigger phrases: "migrate existing app to OTel", "add OpenTelemetry to existing project", "retrofit OTel into my codebase"…

    Any agent

    npx skills add honeycombio/agent-skill --skill otel-migration
  • Skill production-investigation

    Workflows for investigating production issues in Honeycomb: context priming, broad query, BubbleUp, trace analysis, verification, and chaining results between steps to a root cause. Trigger phrases: "

    Any agent

    npx skills add honeycombio/agent-skill --skill production-investigation
  • Skill query-patterns

    Constructing and interpreting Honeycomb queries on trace, log and event datasets: operation selection (percentiles not AVG, HEATMAP for distributions), relational fields (root., parent., any.…

    Any agent

    npx skills add honeycombio/agent-skill --skill query-patterns
  • Skill slos-and-triggers

    Interpreting Honeycomb SLO compliance, burn rates and trigger status, and what to do about them: detecting misconfigured SLIs, freezing deploys vs paging on-call, designing burn alert thresholds.

    Any agent

    npx skills add honeycombio/agent-skill --skill slos-and-triggers
  • Skill verify-recent-trace

    Find 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".

    Any agent

    npx skills add honeycombio/agent-skill --skill verify-recent-trace

Agents (2)

  • Agent honeycomb-investigator

    Use this agent when the user needs an autonomous, multi-step investigation of a production issue using Honeycomb. Examples: <example> Context: User received a PagerDuty alert about high latency…

  • Agent instrumentation-advisor

    Use this agent when the user wants to improve their application's observability by analyzing their codebase against what Honeycomb actually receives.

Commands (1)

  • Command honeycomb-setup

    Set up the Honeycomb MCP server connection for Claude Code

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