Honeycomb Integration

The ilert Honeycomb Integration helps you to easily connect ilert with Honeycomb.

Honeycomb is a tool for observability, designed to help developers understand and debug their software systems by providing real-time insights and detailed, queryable data about production environments.

In ilert: Create a Honeycomb alert source

1. Go to Alerting → Alert sources and click Create new alert source.
2. Search for Honeycomb, click its tile, and click Next.
3. Give your alert source a name, optionally assign teams, and click Next.
4. Choose who gets notified: select Use existing escalation policy and pick a policy, or Generate new escalation policy to start with a basic one that notifies you first. Click Next.

   

   Pick an existing escalation policy, or generate a basic one without leaving the wizard.
5. Select Default grouping and click Continue setup. It groups events by the alert key the integration sets; the other grouping options are easier to judge once events are arriving.
6. The next page shows more settings, such as notification priority and alert templates. Click Finish setup for now; you can change them later.
7. On the final page, ilert shows the integration key and URL for this alert source. You will need them later in this guide.

In Honeycomb: Create a Webhook Trigger

1. On the sidebar click on Account -> Team settings.

1. On the next page click on Integrations.

1. Now scroll down and click on Add Integration.

1. In the popup window: Change the Provider to Webhook and choose a desired Name. Now insert the ilert Honeycomb URL and api key from the previous created alert source into Webhook URL and Shared Secret.
2. Click on Add to save the integration.

1. Optionally: On the Trigger and SLO Recipients section, click on Test, to send a test webhook to ilert.

1. Now on the sidebar, click on Triggers.

1. Select a desired trigger template. (This documentation uses Latency)

1. Select a dataset and click on Next.

1. After configuring the trigger, scroll down to the Recipients section and click on Add Recipient.

1. Select the previously created webhook as Recipient and click on Add.
2. Save the trigger.

1. Optionally: In the triggers list click on the Test button to send a test webhook to ilert.

FAQ

Will alerts in ilert be resolved automatically?

Yes, as soon as Honeycomb sends a notification with 'OK' status, corresponding alerts in ilert will be resolved automatically.