Send Unstructured Logs to Honeycomb

Generally, unstructured logs contain data that is not organized according to a pre-defined data model. Because unstructured data is not easily sortable, it is more challenging to analyze and process.

Honeycomb receives unstructured logs as events with a verbose message attribute. All unstructured log data is contained within this single attribute.

You can send unstructured logs to Honeycomb in a few ways.

OpenTelemetry

Use OpenTelemetry to send your unstructured logs to Honeycomb.

Honeytail + Custom Regex

Use custom regular expressions and Honeytail, our lightweight tool that tails existing log files, parses the content, and sends it to Honeycomb.