Honeycomb introduces agent observability features to keep an eye on production
Full-stack observability startup Hound Technology Inc. , which does business as Honeycomb, introduced a number of new platform updates aimed at investigating artificial intelligence agent activity in production. The new enhanced capabilities provide deeper visibility into what AI agents are doing while they’re running, the company said.
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- SiliconANGLE UPDATED 09:01 EDT / MAY 12 2026 AI Honeycomb introduces agent observability features to keep an eye on production by Kyt Dotson SHARE Full-stack observability startup Hound Technology Inc.
The enhanced capabilities include Agent Timeline, Canvas Agent and Canvas Skills.
- " Honeycomb said its new enhanced capabilities aim to change this dynamic between agents and information technology teams.
Yen added that Honeycomb is taking its already existing expertise in human-centric observability design and using it to track the behavior of agents, which are provided roles and tool use paradigms similar to human counterparts.
- It allows engineering teams to plunge investigate observability issues using plain English queries and produces visual snapshots of system activity.
Boosting the capabilities of Canvas, the company added Canvas Skills, which allow the engineering teams to teach the AI agents routine and best practice debugging knowledge as reusable playbooks that can run autonomously.
- Honeycomb also added auto-investigations, which allows engineers to set Canvas to automatically begin investigations when an alert arrives.
Instead of waiting for the team to ask questions, it will run playbooks against anomalies, gather data, create and test hypotheses and suggest responses, all before the engineering team even reaches their terminals.
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SiliconANGLE UPDATED 09:01 EDT / MAY 12 2026 AI Honeycomb introduces agent observability features to keep an eye on production by Kyt Dotson SHARE Full-stack observability startup Hound Technology Inc. , which does business as Honeycomb , introduced a number of new platform updates aimed at investigating artificial intelligence agent activity in production. The new enhanced capabilities provide deeper visibility into what AI agents are doing while they're running, the company said.
The enhanced capabilities include Agent Timeline, Canvas Agent and Canvas Skills. Engineering teams can enable them without the need for proprietary software development kits or specialized frameworks. "AI agents are now part of the engineering team," said co-founder and Chief Executive Christine Yen.
"But right now, most teams can't see what those agents are doing in production: which tools they called, what they decided, whether they made things better or worse. " Honeycomb said its new enhanced capabilities aim to change this dynamic between agents and information technology teams. Yen added that Honeycomb is taking its already existing expertise in human-centric observability design and using it to track the behavior of agents, which are provided roles and tool use paradigms similar to human counterparts.
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