Honeycomb MCP: query traces and SLOs from your AI app

Honeycomb's own MCP server lets your AI app query your observability data: traces, events, metrics, SLOs, triggers and boards. ContextGate connects it to Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor with a Honeycomb sign-in, so an engineer can ask about a slow endpoint from their editor while every query lands in Activity.

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  • Free

Connect Honeycomb to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

  1. 1Click Connect Honeycomb free and sign in with your Honeycomb account.
  2. 2The tools are listed after you sign in, all on. Querying traces and events is the core of it; if a tool changes triggers or boards rather than reading them, switch it off unless you want your AI app editing your alerting.
  3. 3Add ContextGate to your AI app as a connector or MCP server. The steps for each app are on the Works with page.
  4. 4Ask your AI app how one of your Honeycomb SLOs is doing this week, then open Activity to see the query.

Observability questions for Claude or Cursor

  • Query traces and events while you debug, without leaving your editor.
  • Check metrics and SLOs for a service before or after a release.
  • Look up the triggers and boards your team has set up in Honeycomb.

What ContextGate keeps track of

  • Switch off any Honeycomb tool; it's hidden from your AI app and refused if called.
  • Trace and event data can carry user IDs or emails, and a workspace policy can hide that personal data.
  • Activity records every query, so you can see what was asked of Honeycomb during an incident.

ContextGate sees only the calls that go through it. Your AI app's built-in tools and chats aren't covered.

What you get with Honeycomb and ContextGate

  • Your AI apps can use HoneycombClaude, Cursor, ChatGPT and other AI apps reach Honeycomb through the one ContextGate connection you add to them.
  • You choose which tools they can useSwitch off any Honeycomb tool you don't want used. It's hidden from your AI apps and refused if called.
  • Every call is checked and recordedYour policies check each call (for example, personal data is hidden and secrets are blocked), and Activity keeps a record of it.

ContextGate sees only the tool calls that go through it, not your AI app's built-in tools or your chats.

Honeycomb tools

Honeycomb's own MCP server shows its tools once you sign in. When you connect it, they are listed and synced in your workspace.