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Honeycomb Launches AI-Native Observability Suite
- By John K. Waters
- September 24, 2025
Software observability platform Honeycomb launched a new suite of artificial intelligence-powered products on Thursday, designed to help developers detect performance anomalies, investigate issues more quickly, and collaborate in real-time.
The suite, called Honeycomb Intelligence, integrates observability tools directly into AI-assisted integrated development environments (IDEs) such as Cursor and Claude Code. It also features an AI-guided workspace for visual investigations and a system that automatically detects irregularities in service performance.
The company stated that its proprietary database enables sub-second query responses across billions of events, a speed it claims is necessary for real-time AI assistance.
Honeycomb Intelligence includes three products:
- Honeycomb MCP Server accelerates debugging and code delivery by bringing Honeycomb's powerful observability model directly into AI-powered IDEs such as Cursor and Claude Code. Developers can investigate issues, run BubbleUp on them, detect outliers, and visualize heatmaps and histograms without leaving their workflow.
- Honeycomb Canvas is an AI-guided workspace that pairs natural language interaction with rich, interactive visualizations. Engineers can ask questions, run multi-step investigations, and seamlessly share insights with teammates inside Honeycomb or in tools like Slack.
- Honeycomb Anomaly Detection is an early warning system for service health that learns normal service behavior and highlights meaningful deviations before they impact customers. It reduces false positives and eliminates alert fatigue.
Early adopters of the suite include Slack, HelloFresh, Duolingo, and Intercom. Honeycomb said the tools are available to all customers at no additional cost.
The release follows Honeycomb's participation as a launch partner in Amazon Web Services' new AI Agents and Tools category, as well as a collaboration with Anthropic on its Usage and Cost API.
About the Author
John K. Waters is the editor in chief of a number of Converge360.com sites, with a focus on high-end development, AI and future tech. He's been writing about cutting-edge technologies and culture of Silicon Valley for more than two decades, and he's written more than a dozen books. He also co-scripted the documentary film Silicon Valley: A 100 Year Renaissance, which aired on PBS. He can be reached at [email protected].