Honeycomb.io incident

Investigating querying issues

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

Honeycomb.io experienced a minor incident on May 21, 2026 affecting ui.honeycomb.io - US1 Querying and ui.eu1.honeycomb.io - EU1 Querying, lasting 17h 20m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
May 21, 2026, 11:22 PM UTC
Resolved
May 22, 2026, 04:42 PM UTC
Duration
17h 20m
Detected by Pingoru
May 21, 2026, 11:22 PM UTC

Affected components

ui.honeycomb.io - US1 Queryingui.eu1.honeycomb.io - EU1 Querying

Update timeline

  1. investigating May 21, 2026, 11:22 PM UTC

    We have identified and are working to resolve an issue that is causing query results to return inconsistent results.

  2. investigating May 22, 2026, 12:49 AM UTC

    Impact from this issue has concluded. For a period of time (different between US and EU instances, noted below), queries spanning data older than the most recent 2 hours with certain GROUP / WHERE clauses returned inconsistent results. Data was never lost, and reruns of the same queries will show the previously missing data. US impact times: 21:50 UTC - 23:20 UTC EU impact times: 20:50 UTC - 23:20 UTC

  3. resolved May 22, 2026, 04:42 PM UTC

    This is an administrative update, marking the incident as Resolved. There has been no further impact since 23:20UTC on May 21 2026.