MCP server for interacting with honeycomb API
Connect Honeycomb to Claude, Cursor or any other MCP client and it stops being a tab you switch to. MCP server for interacting with honeycomb API. The honeycomb mcp server is what makes that connection.
With this MCP server, Claude AI can perform operations such as retrieving, creating, and updating Honeycomb datasets, queries, events, boards, markers, SLOs, and triggers.
The toolset is worth reading before you wire it up, because it tells you what the integration is really for:
production — metrics (slug: prod-metrics)staging — services (slug: staging-svc)application — logs (slug: app-logs)Prerequisites — The Prerequisites tool exposed by this serverInstallation — The Installation tool exposed by this serverAuthentication — 1. honeycomb_auth - Authenticates with the Honeycomb API and validates your API key - No input parameters required (uses environment variable)Configuration is passed through the environment: HONEYCOMB_API_KEY. Treat anything key-shaped as a real credential — scope it to the minimum the server needs, and rotate it if it ever lands in a shared config.
The server ships on npm as npx, so your MCP client can launch it on demand — there is no separate build step. Add the server block to your client's configuration, restart it, and the tools register themselves.
Plenty of monitoring and observability servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. Honeycomb's toolset — production, staging, application and 3 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by kajirita2002; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| production | metrics (slug: prod-metrics) |
| staging | services (slug: staging-svc) |
| application | logs (slug: app-logs) |
| Prerequisites | The Prerequisites tool exposed by this server. |
| Installation | The Installation tool exposed by this server. |
| Authentication | 1. honeycomb_auth - Authenticates with the Honeycomb API and validates your API key - No input parameters required (uses environment variable) |
{
"mcpServers": {
"honeycomb-1": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "npx"],
"env": {
"HONEYCOMB_API_KEY": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| HONEYCOMB_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
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