Honeycomb.io incident
Degraded querying and delayed records sent to Activity Log
Resolved after 21 hours 40 minutes, affecting ui.honeycomb.io - US1 Querying and ui.honeycomb.io - US1 Activity Log and 1 more, on January 6, 2026.
We have stabilized activity log. We have confirmed activity log entries lost from 4:54pm-7:04pm ET in the US and 9:43pm-11:55pm GMT in the EU. Event ingest was unimpacted. All systems are currently operating normally
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- identified Jan 06, 2026, 10:14 PM UTC
We are seeing a spike in querying errors and the Activity Log has delayed ingest of new activity. We have identified the issue and are working to resolve
- identified Jan 06, 2026, 10:37 PM UTC
We have resolved the issue which impacted querying but are still working to get Activity Log up to date
- identified Jan 06, 2026, 11:05 PM UTC
We are currently expecting to lose the last three hours of data for the beta activity log feature as part of remediation of this issue.
- identified Jan 07, 2026, 01:17 AM UTC
We have restored basic activity log functionality, though some delays remain, and we will analyze further tomorrow during business hours.
- identified Jan 07, 2026, 07:53 PM UTC
We have stabilized activity log. We have confirmed activity log entries lost from 4:54pm-7:04pm ET in the US and 9:43pm-11:55pm GMT in the EU. Event ingest was unimpacted. All systems are currently operating normally
- resolved Jan 07, 2026, 07:54 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
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