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Deploy Honeycomb in your own infrastructure.

Honeycomb Private Cloud brings the observability platform you know into your own infrastructure. You get enhanced data governance, regulatory compliance, and complete infrastructure control, all while keeping the Honeycomb experience your teams rely on.

What is Honeycomb Private Cloud? 

Honeycomb Private Cloud is a deployment option that runs Honeycomb in your cloud account instead of on Honeycomb’s infrastructure. It uses the same architecture and codebase as Honeycomb SaaS, so the full Honeycomb feature set is available. The key difference is that you control where your data lives and how your infrastructure is configured.

Honeycomb Private Cloud works well for organizations that need to:

• Control data governance: Keep your telemetry data in your environment and maintain full control over data location and access.
• Meet regulatory requirements: Comply with HIPAA, PCI DSS, FedRAMP, or industry-specific regulations that mandate data residency or isolation.
• Optimize cloud costs: Apply your existing cloud discounts, Reserved Instances, or Savings Plans to your observability infrastructure.
• Maintain network isolation: Operate in air-gapped or highly restricted network environments with strict egress controls.
• Customize resource allocation: Configure infrastructure with adjustable rate limits and dedicated resources for your telemetry volume.

Key Capabilities 

Honeycomb Private Cloud runs on the same codebase as Honeycomb SaaS, so you have complete feature parity:

• Query high-cardinality data in real-time: Process millions of events per second with Honeycomb’s custom column store.
• Explore telemetry with AI: Use Canvas for natural language queries and MCP for automated anomaly detection.
• Trace distributed systems: Understand complex service interactions and identify bottlenecks with Honeycomb’s tracing model.
• Query any field: Analyze data across unlimited custom dimensions without pre-aggregation or indexing delays.
• Resolve issues in real-time: Identify and fix problems as they happen, not after the fact.

You also get the same query performance, APIs, integrations, user interface, and workflows. Private Cloud deployments receive weekly updates with minimal lag behind the latest platform features.

Deployment Flexibility 

Honeycomb Private Cloud offers these deployment models:

• Honeycomb-managed: Honeycomb handles deployment, operations, upgrades, and monitoring while your data stays in your environment.
• Self-managed: Your team deploys and operates Honeycomb with support and upgrade guidance from Honeycomb.

Both models support single-tenant or multi-tenant configurations, so you can balance isolation requirements with operational efficiency.

Architecture 

Honeycomb Private Cloud uses multiple cloud services including compute, caching, databases, and object storage. The architecture distributes across multiple availability zones for high availability and scales horizontally to meet your throughput requirements.

Your Honeycomb deployment integrates with:

• Your authentication provider (Okta, SAML, or other identity providers)
• Your email gateway for notifications
• Your Slack workspace (via custom Slack app)
• GitHub (via custom GitHub app for deployment gates)

To learn more about the technical architecture, visit Honeycomb Private Cloud Architecture

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