Honeycomb Advances Observability for AI-Powered Software Development
Summary
Honeycomb announced the general availability of Honeycomb Metrics and a set of AI-powered observability features, plus expanded Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations. The company released Agent Skills for Claude Code, Cursor and other agents, Automated Investigations, a Slackbot (beta), and Pipeline Intelligence to automate telemetry pipeline creation and production investigations. Metrics now supports both time-series and event-based models with a unified query experience to preserve high-cardinality context without runaway costs. MCP expansions embed observability into AI development and operations tools so agents and engineers can run evidence-backed investigations and act on results. Honeycomb also introduced promotional pricing for Metrics and made several features immediately available while others are in early access.