Honeycomb

Honeycomb trigger webhooks POST JSON to Exhale. Each tenant gets a unique HTTPS URL token. Exhale scrubs the payload, upserts a Pulse (source=honeycomb), and runs triage when the trigger status maps to TRIGGERED / ALARM / similar.

See Incoming integrations for how Honeycomb fits alongside PagerDuty, New Relic, and Manual webhook.

OpenAPI: POST /webhooks/honeycomb (header token) and POST /webhooks/honeycomb/{token}.

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Endpoint

After Connect in Connections → Integrations → Observability & alerts → Honeycomb:

Preferred (keeps tokens out of proxy access logs):

POST https://exhale.kolstromsystems.com/webhooks/honeycomb

Send header X-Exhale-Webhook-Token: {token}.

Path form (also supported):

POST https://exhale.kolstromsystems.com/webhooks/honeycomb/{token}

Design partners may substitute https://exhale-staging.kolstromsystems.com as the host.

• token — opaque URL segment; this token authenticates the delivery.
• Response: 202 Accepted with pulse_id, status, created, and message.

Unknown tokens return 404. Disabled or expired-trial tenants return 403.

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Customer setup

1. Sign in as admin → Connections → Integrations → Honeycomb.
2. Click Connect Honeycomb and copy the webhook URL.
3. In Honeycomb, open a Trigger, add a Webhook recipient, and paste the Exhale URL.
4. Include a trigger id or name and a status field.
5. Send test alert creates a synthetic pulse and marks the integration configured.

Rotate webhook token invalidates the previous URL immediately — update Honeycomb after rotating.

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Payload shape

Field	Required	Notes
id / trigger_id (or name)	Yes	Stable id for dedupe (source=honeycomb)
status	No	TRIGGERED, OK, …
name	No	Pulse title

Lifecycle mapping

Honeycomb status	Pulse status
TRIGGERED, ALARM, firing, breach	Received → triage
OK, CLEARED, resolved, passing	Resolved

Example

TOKEN="your-url-token"
curl -i -X POST "https://exhale.kolstromsystems.com/webhooks/honeycomb/${TOKEN}" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"id":"hc-42","name":"Elevated p99","status":"TRIGGERED"}'

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Related

Full detail (dedupe, fixtures, security): Honeycomb webhooks in the repository wiki. Planning track: Observability ingest v2.