Configure isolation for your Honeycomb Private Cloud deployment.
Honeycomb Private Cloud can be configured as single-tenant or multi-tenant to match your organizational structure and isolation requirements.
Both Honeycomb-managed and self-managed deployment models support either tenancy option.
Single-Tenant
A single-tenant deployment gives you a dedicated Honeycomb environment with complete isolation from other tenants.
Single-tenant deployments work well for organizations that need to:
Maximize isolation: Get complete separation at the infrastructure level with no shared resources.
Guarantee data privacy: Ensure telemetry data has no possibility of cross-tenant exposure.
Isolate performance: Guarantee that your workload performance is unaffected by other tenants.
Customize resource allocation: Configure infrastructure specifically for your telemetry patterns and volume.
Single-tenant configurations are common in financial services with strict regulatory requirements, healthcare organizations subject to HIPAA or other health data protection regulations, government agencies requiring FedRAMP or other government compliance certifications, and high-volume enterprises with massive telemetry volumes that require dedicated, optimized infrastructure.
Architecture
In a single-tenant deployment:
All infrastructure components serve only your organization
No resources are shared with other Honeycomb customers
Your data stays completely isolated from other tenants
Infrastructure can be sized and optimized specifically for your workload
Multi-Tenant
A multi-tenant deployment provides logical separation within shared infrastructure between teams or business units.
Multiple groups maintain autonomy while benefiting from operational efficiency.
Multi-tenant deployments work well for organizations that need to:
Separate by organization: Create distinct Honeycomb environments for different business units, regions, or teams.
Improve operational efficiency: Share infrastructure management across multiple groups.
Optimize costs: Distribute infrastructure costs across multiple teams or business units.
Enable team autonomy: Give each group their own Honeycomb environment with independent user management and configuration.
Multi-tenant configurations are common in large enterprises with multiple business units that need separate observability environments.
Architecture
In a multi-tenant deployment:
Multiple Honeycomb environments run within shared infrastructure
Each tenant has logical isolation with independent:
User authentication and authorization
Data storage and access controls
Configuration and settings
API keys and integrations
Infrastructure resources are shared across tenants for efficiency
Each tenant maintains operational independence
Comparing Tenancy Options
Aspect
Single-Tenant
Multi-Tenant
Infrastructure isolation
Complete
Logical
Data isolation
Physical and logical
Logical only
Compliance suitability
Highest
suitable for most enterprise needs
Performance isolation
Guaranteed
Shared
Administrative overhead
Single environment
Multiple environments
Cost efficiency
Higher
Lower through sharing
Scalability
Dedicated
Shared
Best for
Maximum isolation and compliance
Organizational separation with operational efficiency
Combining Tenancy and Deployment Models
You can combine tenancy options with deployment models to match your specific needs:
Single-tenant, Honeycomb-managed: Maximum isolation with minimal operational overhead
Single-tenant, self-managed: Complete control and isolation for highly regulated or air-gapped environments
Multi-tenant, Honeycomb-managed: Efficient support for multiple teams with Honeycomb handling operations
Multi-tenant, self-managed: Organizational flexibility with complete infrastructure control
