Honeycomb Events API
The Honeycomb Events API is the lowest-level interface for sending event data to Honeycomb. It supports both single event creation and batch event submission, allowing developers to send structured telemetry data directly to Honeycomb datasets. While Honeycomb recommends using OpenTelemetry or Beeline SDKs for most instrumentation use cases, the Events API provides direct control for custom integrations and specialized data pipelines.
Honeycomb Events API is one of 22 APIs that honeycomb publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification and an AsyncAPI event-driven specification.
Tagged areas include Events, Ingestion, Observability, and Telemetry. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an OpenAPI specification, and an AsyncAPI specification.
This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 2 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 1.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.honeycomb.io.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Honeycomb Events API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
An API key is passed in the header as X-Honeycomb-Team (ApiKeyAuth).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
ApiKeyAuth— Honeycomb Configuration API key. Must have appropriate permissions for the endpoint being called.
Paths & Operations 2
Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 2 operations — 2 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Send individual and batch events to Honeycomb datasets.
Schemas 2
The contract defines 2 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are BatchEvent (3 properties), BatchEventResponse (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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