Live status & reliability report

Honeycomb status, outages & reliability

#6 of 16 monitoring & observability toolsOperational

Honeycomb is an observability platform for querying high-cardinality event and trace data, based in San Francisco.

Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · score recalculated

Over the last 90 days Honeycomb had 99.86% effective uptime across 5 status page incidents (3 partial or major outages), resolving them in 2h 19m on average.

85.4/100Reliability scoreVisit Honeycomb ↗

Is Honeycomb down right now?

No, Honeycomb is up and running.

  • Honeycomb's status page reports all systems operational. Checked .
  • All 3 Honeycomb pages we check are responding. Checked .

Official Honeycomb status page ↗

Uptime (90d)99.86%2h 55m weighted downtime
Incidents (90d)51.3 per 30 days
Major / partial outages3
Avg time to resolve2h 19m
Outages we detected0by our independent probes

90-day uptime

Aug 5, 2026 – Aug 9, 2026: no incidentsAug 10, 2026: 95.27% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 11, 2026 – Aug 20, 2026: no incidentsAug 21, 2026: 99.60% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 22, 2026 – Oct 19, 2026: no incidentsOct 20, 2026: 95.09% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Oct 21, 2026: no incidentsOct 22, 2026: 97.88% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Oct 23, 2026 – Nov 2, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago99.865% average daily uptimeToday
  • No incidents
  • Degraded
  • Partial outage
  • Major outage
  • No data

Key facts about Honeycomb's reliability

  • Over the past 12 months, Honeycomb published 41 incidents on its status page, 13 of them partial or major outages.
  • Its longest outage on record in that time was “Querying and Ingest issues in EU” on Dec 5, 2025, which lasted 3d.
  • The part of Honeycomb most often affected was ui.eu1.honeycomb.io - EU1 Querying (9 of 41 incidents).
  • Honeycomb reported 5 incidents in the last 90 days, down from 16 in the 90 days before.
  • Incidents most often began on a Thursday (13 of 41, UTC).
  • Honeycomb's 90-day uptime of 99.86% is above the average for monitoring & observability tools (99.05%).
  • It resolves incidents more slowly than the typical monitoring tool: 2h 19m on average, against a median of 2h 7m.

Score breakdown

Uptime · 40% weight
87
99.865% effective uptime
Incident frequency · 20% weight
72
1.33 weighted incidents per 30 days
Time to resolve · 20% weight
83
2h 19m average
Transparency · 20% weight
100
No unreported outages detected

How the score is calculated →

Incidents per month

0369121 partial outage incident1Dec1 partial outage incident2 degraded performance incidents3Jan ’262 degraded performance incidents2Feb1 major outage incident2 degraded performance incidents3Mar3 partial outage incidents3 degraded performance incidents2 informational incidents8Apr1 partial outage incident2 degraded performance incidents1 informational incident4May2 partial outage incidents9 degraded performance incidents11Jun1 partial outage incident2 degraded performance incidents3Jul2 degraded performance incidents2AugSep3 partial outage incidents3OctNov
  • Major outage
  • Partial outage
  • Degraded
  • Informational

Response time

Daily average response time of Honeycomb's public pages, measured by our probes.

0ms294ms588msNov 1, 2026: 534msNov 2, 2026: 487msNov 1, 2026Nov 2, 2026

Score trend

Daily reliability score (rolling 90-day window).

050100Nov 1, 2026: 85.4Nov 2, 2026: 85.4Nov 1, 2026Nov 2, 2026

Honeycomb incident history (last 90 days)

Source: Honeycomb status page · last checked · Subscribe via RSS

Our independent monitoring

We check these public Honeycomb pages every 5 minutes. An outage is recorded after two consecutive failed checks.

PageLast checkUptime (30d)Avg response
Login pageUp 100%614 ms
HomepageUp 100%470 ms
API auth endpoint (unauthenticated)Up 100%475 ms

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Honeycomb status FAQ

Is Honeycomb down right now?

No, Honeycomb is up and running. Honeycomb's status page currently reports all systems operational, and all 3 of the Honeycomb pages we check every five minutes are responding. This page updates automatically when that changes.

How reliable is Honeycomb?

Honeycomb has a reliability score of 85.4 out of 100, ranking #6 of 16 monitoring & observability tools. Over the last 90 days it had 99.86% effective uptime.

How often does Honeycomb have outages?

Honeycomb published 5 incidents on its status page in the last 90 days (3 partial or major outages) and 41 in the past 12 months.

How long do Honeycomb outages last?

Honeycomb resolves incidents in 2h 19m on average. Its longest outage in the past year lasted 3d, on Dec 5, 2025.

Does Honeycomb have a status page?

Yes. Honeycomb's official status page is status.honeycomb.io. We read it every five minutes and keep its full incident history.