> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.honeycomb.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Create Events > Supports batch creation of events. Dataset names are case insensitive. `POST` requests to "MyDatasET" will land in the same dataset as "mydataset". Names may contain URL-encoded spaces or other special characters, but not URL-encoded slashes. For example, "My%20Dataset" will show up in the UI as "My Dataset". The first event received for a dataset determines the casing of the displayed name. All subsequent variations in casing will use the originally specified case. ## OpenAPI ````yaml api/openapi-public.yaml post /1/batch/{datasetSlug} openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: Honeycomb API version: 1.0.0 license: name: Apache 2.0 url: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html contact: email: support@honeycomb.io description: > The API allows programmatic management of many resources within Honeycomb. Please report any discrepancies with actual API behavior in Pollinators Slack or to Honeycomb Support. servers: - url: https://api.honeycomb.io - url: https://api.eu1.honeycomb.io security: [] tags: - name: Auth description: > API Keys have various scopes permissions and belong to a specific Team or Environment. Any valid Honeycomb ingest or configuration API Key will work with this endpoint. Learn more about [API keys](https://docs.honeycomb.io/get-started/best-practices/api-keys). These endpoints can be used to validate authentication for a key, to determine what authorizations have been granted to a key, and to determine the Team and Environment that a key belongs to. - name: Boards description: > Boards are a place to pin and save useful queries/graphs, SLO panels, text panels, and views you want to retain for later reuse and reference. Boards can contain multiple panel types: - **Query panels**: Display saved queries/graphs - **SLO panels**: Monitor Service Level Objectives - **Text panels**: Add markdown-formatted text and documentation - **Views**: Filtered perspectives of board data (limited to 50 views per board) Boards also support preset filters (limited to 5 per board) to apply consistent filtering across the board. This API allows you to list, create, update, and delete boards, as well as manage board views. ## Authorization The API key must have the **Manage Public Boards** permission. Learn more about [API keys here](https://docs.honeycomb.io/configure/environments/manage-api-keys/). - name: Burn Alerts description: > This feature is available as part of the [Honeycomb Pro and Enterprise plans](https://www.honeycomb.io/pricing/). Burn Alerts notify you when issues impact your SLO budget. Learn more about [Burn Alerts here](https://docs.honeycomb.io/notify/alert/slos/monitor/). This API allows you to list, create, update, and delete burn alerts. ## Authorization The API key must have the **Manage SLOs** permission. Learn more about [API keys here](https://docs.honeycomb.io/configure/environments/manage-api-keys/). - name: Calculated Fields description: > Calculated Fields (also called Derived Columns) allow you to run queries based on the value of an expression that is calculated from the fields in an event. This API allows you to list, create, update, and delete Calculated Fields in a dataset or across a whole environment, paralleling the behavior of the Schema tab within a Dataset's or Environment's Settings UI. ## Authorization The API key must have the **Manage Queries and Columns** permission. Learn more about [API keys here](https://docs.honeycomb.io/configure/environments/manage-api-keys/). - name: Columns description: > Columns are fields in the events you send to Honeycomb. This API allows you to list, create, update, and delete columns in a dataset. ## Authorization The API key must have the **Manage Queries and Columns** permission. Learn more about [API keys here](https://docs.honeycomb.io/configure/environments/manage-api-keys/). - name: Datasets description: > A Dataset represents a collection of related events that come from the same source, or are related to the same source. This API allows you to list, create, and update datasets. ## Authorization The API key must have the **Create Datasets** permission. Learn more about [API keys here](https://docs.honeycomb.io/configure/environments/manage-api-keys/). - name: Dataset Definitions description: > Dataset definitions describe the fields with special meaning in the Dataset. Refer to the [Dataset Definitions](https://docs.honeycomb.io/configure/datasets/definitions/) documentation for more information. **Honeycomb automatically creates these Dataset definition fields when the Dataset is created.** Manual creation of Dataset definitions is **not** needed. ## Authorization The API key must have the **Create Datasets** permission. Learn more about [API keys here](https://docs.honeycomb.io/configure/environments/manage-api-keys/). - name: Events description: > The Events API endpoints are the lowest-level way to send Events to Honeycomb. **This should be your last resort!** If unsure where to start when instrumenting an application, read about how to [Send Data to Honeycomb](https://docs.honeycomb.io/send-data/). If you are building a tracing or metrics library, we recommend using [OpenTelemetry](https://docs.honeycomb.io/send-data/opentelemetry/). ## Authorization It is recommended that an Ingest API key is used for sending events. A Configuration API key will work, and must have the **Send Events** permission. Learn more about [API keys here](https://docs.honeycomb.io/configure/environments/manage-api-keys/). - name: Environments description: > This API allows you to list, create, and update, and delete Environments. ## Authorization This API requires a Management Key passed via the HTTP Authorization header. Join the key ID and secret with a colon, like this: `Authorization: Bearer :`. - name: Key Management description: > This API allows you to list, create, update, and delete API Keys for a Team. Learn more about [API keys here](https://docs.honeycomb.io/configure/environments/manage-api-keys/). ## Authorization This API requires a Management Key passed via the HTTP Authorization header. Join the key ID and secret with a colon, like this: `Authorization: Bearer :`. - name: Kinesis Events description: > The Kinesis Events API endpoints allow Honeycomb to process streaming events from Amazon Kinesis. Refer to the [Honeycomb AWS integrations](https://docs.honeycomb.io/integrations/aws/how-aws-integrations-work/) documentation for more information. ## Authorization It is recommended that an Ingest API key is used for sending events. A Configuration API key will work, and must have the **Send Events** permission. Learn more about [API keys here](https://docs.honeycomb.io/configure/environments/manage-api-keys/). - name: Markers description: > Markers indicate points in time on graphs where interesting things happen, such as deploys or outages. This API allows you to list, create, update, and delete Markers. ## Authorization The API key must have the **Manage Markers** permission. Learn more about [API keys here](https://docs.honeycomb.io/configure/environments/manage-api-keys/). - name: Marker Settings description: > Marker Settings apply to groups of similar Markers. For example, "deploys" markers appear with the same color on a graph. This API allows you to list, create, update, and delete Marker Settings. ## Authorization The API key must have the **Manage Markers** permission. Learn more about [API keys here](https://docs.honeycomb.io/configure/environments/manage-api-keys/). - name: Queries description: > Queries in Honeycomb are specifications for queries, and are used to identify queries in other parts of the API - in particular: boards, triggers, and query annotations. This API allows you to create and get query objects. ## Authorization The API key must have the **Manage Queries and Columns** permission. Learn more about [API keys here](https://docs.honeycomb.io/configure/environments/manage-api-keys/). - name: Query Annotations description: > Query Annotations in Honeycomb allow you to associate names and descriptions to queries to add additional information in collaboration features. This API allows you to list, create, update, and delete Query Annotations. ## Authorization The API key must have the **Manage Queries and Columns** permission. Learn more about [API keys here](https://docs.honeycomb.io/configure/environments/manage-api-keys/). - name: Query Data description: > This feature is available as part of the [Honeycomb Enterprise plan](https://www.honeycomb.io/pricing/). Query Results are the aggregated data from a Query, similar to what is displayed in graphs or heatmaps within the Honeycomb UI. Receiving results from a Query is a three-step process: Create the Query (or Query Spec), which validates that the query parameters are valid. Creating a query does not actually run the query to get results. Run the query asynchronously by creating a Query Result referencing the Query’s ID. This returns a Query Result ID. Poll the query result endpoint (with the Query Result ID) until the data is ready. Note that many Query Results can be created from a single Query. This is particularly useful when using a relative time_range parameter in the Query. For example, a Query with `time_range: 7200` and no explicit `start_time` or `end_time` can be re-run over and over, with each resulting Query Result containing the most recent 2 hours of data. This is conceptually similar to clicking Run Query in the Honeycomb UI without changing any query parameters. **IMPORTANT API RESTRICTIONS:** To ensure the stability of Honeycomb systems, we have enabled the following API restrictions. These restrictions may change over time. * Query Results can only be created for events with timestamps within the past 7 days. * When creating a Query Result, the time ranges from the Query are truncated according to the following rules. For queries with a time range of: * less than or equal to 6 hours, results are truncated to the nearest 1 minute. For example, a start/end time of 2021-04-22T05:28:12Z will be truncated to 2021-04-22T05:28:00Z. * greater than 6 hours and less than or equal to 2 days, results are truncated to the nearest 5 minutes. For example, a start/end time of 2021-04-22T05:28:12Z will be truncated to 2021-04-22T05:25:00Z. * greater than 2 days and less than or equal to 7 days, results are truncated to the nearest 30 minutes. For example, a start/end time of 2021-04-22T05:28:12Z will be truncated to 2021-04-22T05:00:00Z. * Creating a Query Result is rate limited to 10 requests per minute. Status code 429 will be returned when rate limited. * Query Results cannot take longer than 10 seconds to run. * Creating a Query Result that contains Relational Fields is rate limited to 1 request per minute. Status code 429 will be returned when rate limited. * Query Results with Relational Fields may be more likely to take longer to run. * Regardless of whether the `compare_time_offset_seconds` field is populated on a query, query run responses will not include comparison results. ## Authorization The API key must have the **Manage Queries and Columns** and **Run Queries** permission. Learn more about [API keys here](https://docs.honeycomb.io/configure/environments/manage-api-keys/). - name: Recipients description: > Honeycomb Recipients allow you to define and manage the Recipients that will get notified by a Trigger or Burn Alert. The types of Recipients supported are: PagerDuty, Email, Webhook, Microsoft Teams, and Slack. ## Authorization The API key must have the **Manage Recipients** permission. Recipients are team-wide and NOT environment-specific. API Keys with the **Manage Recipients** permission can modify recipients used by ALL environments for a given team. Learn more about [API keys here](https://docs.honeycomb.io/configure/environments/manage-api-keys/). - name: Reporting description: > The Reporting API provides access to historical performance data. ## Authorization The API key must have the **Manage SLOs** permission. Learn more about [API keys here](https://docs.honeycomb.io/configure/environments/manage-api-keys/). - name: Service Maps description: > The Service Maps API endpoints allow you to visualize the relationships between your services in Honeycomb. This API allows you to create and retrieve service Dependency Requests, which are used to generate maps of dependencies between services. ## Authorization The API key must have the **Read Service Maps** permission. Learn more about [API keys here](https://docs.honeycomb.io/configure/environments/manage-api-keys/). - name: SLOs description: > This feature is available as part of the [Honeycomb Pro and Enterprise plans](https://www.honeycomb.io/pricing). Honeycomb SLOs allow you to define and monitor Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for your organization. This API allows you to list, create, update, and delete SLO objects. You can also access historical reporting for your SLOs to analyze long-term performance trends. For more information, see [Get SLO History](https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api/reporting/getslohistory) ## Authorization The API key must have the **Manage SLOs** permission. Learn more about [API keys here](https://docs.honeycomb.io/configure/environments/manage-api-keys/). - name: Triggers description: > Triggers let you receive notifications when your data in Honeycomb crosses the thresholds that you configure. The graph on which to alert is as flexible as a Honeycomb query, which helps reduce false positives due to known errors. Triggers support both standard event-based datasets and metrics datasets. Metrics triggers have additional capabilities such as granularity control. Learn more in the [Triggers documentation](https://docs.honeycomb.io/notify/alert/triggers/). This API allows you to list, create, update, and delete Triggers. ## Authorization The API key must have the **Manage Triggers** permission. Learn more about [API keys here](https://docs.honeycomb.io/configure/environments/manage-api-keys/). externalDocs: url: https://docs.honeycomb.io paths: /1/batch/{datasetSlug}: parameters: - $ref: '#/components/parameters/datasetSlug' post: tags: - Events summary: Create Events description: > Supports batch creation of events. Dataset names are case insensitive. `POST` requests to "MyDatasET" will land in the same dataset as "mydataset". Names may contain URL-encoded spaces or other special characters, but not URL-encoded slashes. For example, "My%20Dataset" will show up in the UI as "My Dataset". The first event received for a dataset determines the casing of the displayed name. All subsequent variations in casing will use the originally specified case. operationId: createEvents parameters: - in: header name: Content-Encoding description: > Included when sending events in a file. Size limitations may be addressed by compressing request bodies with gzip or zstd compression. Be sure to set the Content-Encoding to `gzip` or `zstd` when compressing the request body. If sending plaintext, omit this header; "plaintext" is included to simplify the example with curl. schema: type: string enum: - gzip - zstd example: plaintext requestBody: required: true description: > The array should contain one or more JSON objects representing Events. Each Event contains its payload under the `data` key. Values of `time` and/or `samplerate` can be included as well. The JSON payload should have the structure: `[{ "data": { "key1": "value1", "key2": 2.0 } }, ... ]` Size limitations may be addressed by compressing request bodies with `gzip` or `zstd` compression. An empty `202` response indicates that the event has been queued for processing. content: application/json: schema: type: array items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/BatchEvent' example: - time: '2006-01-02T15:04:05.99Z' samplerate: 1 data: method: GET endpoint: /foo shard: users duration_ms: 32 - time: '2006-01-02T15:04:05.99Z' data: some_other_key: value duration_ms: 40 application/octet-stream: schema: type: string format: binary responses: '200': description: Enqueued for processing content: application/json: schema: type: array items: type: object properties: status: type: number error: type: string example: - status: 202 - status: 400 error: Request body should not be empty. - status: 400 error: Event has too many columns. - status: 400 error: Request body is malformed and cannot be read. '400': description: Bad Request content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' examples: not-empty: description: The body is empty, or blank. value: error: Request body should not be empty. dataset-too-many-columns: description: The dataset has reached the maximum number of columns. value: error: Dataset has too many columns. malformed-request: description: The API failed to decode the body as JSON. value: error: Request body is malformed and cannot be read. too-large: description: The body is too large. value: error: Request body is too large. '401': $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized' '403': description: Dropped due to administrative throttling content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' example: error: Event dropped due to administrative throttling '404': $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound' '429': description: Dropped due to rate limiting content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' examples: rate-limiting: value: error: Request dropped due to rate limiting. deny-list: value: error: Event dropped due to administrative denylist security: - configuration_key: [] - ingest_key: [] components: parameters: datasetSlug: name: datasetSlug description: | The dataset slug. in: path required: true schema: type: string schemas: BatchEvent: type: object properties: data: type: object allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/Event' time: type: string description: > Should be in RFC3339 high precision format (for example, YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.mmmZ). May be a Unix epoch (seconds since 1970) with second or greater precision (for example, 1452759330927). Optional. If not set, defaults to the time that the API receives the event. samplerate: type: integer description: > An integer representing the denominator in the fraction 1/n when client-side sampling has been applied. Optional. If not set, defaults to `1`, meaning "not sampled". Refer to [Sampling](https://docs.honeycomb.io/manage-data-volume/sample/sampled-data-in-honeycomb/) for more detail. Error: x-tags: - Errors type: object description: A legacy error, containing only a textual description. properties: error: type: string readOnly: true Event: type: object minProperties: 1 maxProperties: 2000 additionalProperties: description: > A collection of key-value properties that represent the Event. Honeycomb supports basic data types for the values of each Event attribute. ### Limits - 2,000 fields per event. The entire event must be less than 1 MB of uncompressed JSON. - String Fields: Each string field has a maximum length of 64KB. - Number Fields: Integers and Floats are both 64-bit. type: - string - number - boolean JSONAPIError: x-tags: - Errors type: object description: A JSONAPI-formatted error message. properties: errors: type: array items: type: object readOnly: true required: - id - code properties: id: type: string readOnly: false status: type: string code: type: string readOnly: true title: type: string readOnly: true detail: type: string readOnly: true source: type: object readOnly: true properties: pointer: type: string readOnly: true header: type: string readOnly: true parameter: type: string readOnly: true DetailedError: x-tags: - Errors description: An RFC7807 'Problem Detail' formatted error message. type: object required: - error - status - type - title properties: error: type: string readOnly: true default: something went wrong! status: type: number readOnly: true description: The HTTP status code of the error. type: type: string readOnly: true description: Type is a URI used to uniquely identify the type of error. title: type: string readOnly: true description: >- Title is a human-readable summary that explains the `type` of the problem. detail: type: string readOnly: true description: The general, human-readable error message. instance: type: string readOnly: true description: The unique identifier (ID) for this specific error. responses: Unauthorized: description: Unauthorized content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' example: error: unknown API key - check your credentials application/vnd.api+json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/JSONAPIError' NotFound: description: Not Found headers: Ratelimit: $ref: '#/components/headers/RateLimit' RateLimitPolicy: $ref: '#/components/headers/RateLimitPolicy' content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' example: error: dataset not found application/problem+json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/DetailedError' example: status: 404 type: https://api.honeycomb.io/problems/not-found title: The requested resource cannot be found. error: Dataset not found detail: Dataset not found application/vnd.api+json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/JSONAPIError' headers: RateLimit: description: | The (draft07) recommended header from the IETF on rate limiting. The value of the header is formatted "limit=X, remaining=Y, reset=Z". Where: - X is the maximum number of requests allowed in the window - Y is the number of requests remaining in the window - Z is the number of seconds until the limit resets schema: type: string example: limit=100, remaining=50, reset=60 RateLimitPolicy: description: | The (draft07) recommended header from the IETF on rate limiting. The value of the header is formatted "X;w=Y". Where: - X is the maximum number of requests allowed in a window - Y is the size of the window in seconds schema: type: string example: 100;w=60 ```` Built with [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com).