bendrucker/honeycomb-cli

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# Honeycomb CLI Unofficial CLI for [Honeycomb](https://www.honeycomb.io/), modeled after the [GitHub CLI](https://cli.github.com/) (`gh`). ## Installation ### Homebrew ``` brew install bendrucker/tap/honeycomb ``` ### Prebuilt Binary Download an archive for your platform from the [latest release](https://github.com/bendrucker/honeycomb-cli/releases/latest), extract it, and move the `honeycomb` binary onto your `PATH`. ### Go ``` go install github.com/bendrucker/honeycomb-cli/cmd/honeycomb@latest ``` ## Authentication ``` honeycomb auth login ``` In interactive mode, the login command prompts for key type and credentials. Non-interactively, pass `--key-type` and `--key-secret` (and `--key-id` for management keys) as flags. Check the status of stored credentials: ``` honeycomb auth status ``` ### Key Types | Type | Header | Used For | |------|--------|----------| | `config` | `X-Honeycomb-Team` | Configuration API (boards, SLOs, triggers, columns, queries) | | `ingest` | `X-Honeycomb-Team` | Sending events | | `management` | `Authorization: Bearer` | Management API (environments, API keys) | ### Security API keys are stored in your operating system's keyring (macOS Keychain, GNOME Keyring, Windows Credential Manager) via [`zalando/go-keyring`](https://github.com/zalando/go-keyring). Keys are never written to disk or stored in environment variables. The keyring service name is `honeycomb-cli`, and each key is stored under `{profile}:{type}` (e.g. `default:config`). All keyring operations have a 3-second timeout to prevent the CLI from hanging if the keyring is locked or unavailable. ## Usage Commands follow a `honeycomb <resource> <action>` pattern: ``` honeycomb dataset list honeycomb board get --slug my-board honeycomb query run --dataset my-dataset --query-json '{"calculations": [{"op": "COUNT"}]}' honeycomb trigger create --dataset my-dataset --name "Error rate" --threshold 100 ``` Run `honeycomb help` or `honeycomb <resource> --help` for full details. ### Available Resources `api`, `auth`, `board`, `column`, `dataset`, `environment`, `key`, `marker`, `mcp`, `query`, `recipient`, `signal`, `slo`, `trigger` ### Global Flags | Flag | Description | |------|-------------| | `--profile` | Configuration profile (default: `default`) | | `--format` | Output format: `json` or `table` | | `--no-interactive` | Disable interactive prompts | | `--api-url` | Override the Honeycomb API URL | ### Output Formats The `--format` flag supports `json` and `table`. Default is `table` in a TTY, `json` otherwise. List commands always default to `table` for compact, scannable output — even in non-TTY or agent contexts. ### Agent Detection When running inside an AI coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, Cline), the CLI automatically disables interactive prompts. ## Development ``` go build -o /dev/null ./cmd/honeycomb go test ./... go vet ./... golangci-lint run ./... ``` The API client is generated from `api.json` (Honeycomb's OpenAPI spec) using [oapi-codegen](https://github.com/oapi-codegen/oapi-codegen): ``` go generate ./internal/api/... ```

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add-command

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Add a new cobra subcommand to the CLI

2026-09-23

dogfood-qa

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QA the honeycomb CLI against a live account to find bugs and feature gaps. Target one command or resource family for manual testing, or sweep everything before a release. Use when dogfooding the CLI, reproducing a bug, or producing a findings report mapped to…

2026-09-23

slo

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Working with Honeycomb SLOs, burn alerts, and SLO history

2026-09-23

board

Software Developers

Manage Honeycomb boards: create, update panels, configure visualizations, and review in Chrome. Activated by explicit mention of Honeycomb boards or /board invocation.

2026-06-02

query

Software Developers

Design and build Honeycomb queries: calculations, filters, breakdowns, visualization selection, granularity tuning, and anti-patterns. Activated by explicit mention of Honeycomb queries or /query invocation.

2026-06-02

honeycomb

Software Developers

Honeycomb CLI and MCP server usage — auth, queries, datasets, SLOs, boards, triggers, markers, columns, and raw API requests for observability workflows

2026-02-16

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