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Ent+ Beta
This feature is available as an add-on for the Honeycomb Enterprise plan. This feature is in beta. Please contact your Honeycomb account team for details.
Pipeline Builder is Honeycomb’s new, integrated pipeline configuration tool, designed to help teams define, manage, and deploy telemetry data pipelines built on OpenTelemetry (OTel) and Honeycomb’s dynamic, full-trace tail-sampling technology, Refinery. Pipeline Builder allows you to author and manage pipeline configurations through a Honeycomb-hosted UI, while telemetry data collectors and sampling logic (via Refinery) run in your infrastructure.

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How it works

Diagram of how Pipeline Builder works and fits into your environment.
After setting up Pipeline Builder in your environment:
  1. You create and manage pipeline configuration (OTel Collector and Refiner configuration) in Honeycomb.
  2. Pipeline configuration is deployed to your installation’s Beekeeper, which applies configuration to OTel Collectors and Refinery instances in your environment.
  3. Your pipeline processes and sends telemetry to your Honeycomb environment.
  4. Internal pipeline telemetry is automatically sent to a separate Honeycomb environment so you can monitor your pipeline’s health.

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Key features

  • UI-hosted management: Configuration is managed through a centralized Honeycomb interface — no self-hosted UI is required.
  • OpenTelemetry-native configuration: Parse logs, enrich and filter data, and route to multiple destinations using intuitive drag-and-drop UI components. Behind the scenes, these components translate your configuration to define pipelines using standard OTel processors, receivers, exporters, and extensions.
  • Tail-based sampling with Refinery: Pipeline Builder natively integrates with Refinery, Honeycomb’s sophisticated trace tail-sampling engine, allowing you to reduce costs by sampling repetitive data while keeping the information you need most.
An example of the Pipeline Builder canvas.

Create a Pipeline

Learn how to create a new telemetry pipeline and install artifacts for running your pipeline.

Configure Pipelines

Configure telemetry pipelines in Honeycomb’s integrated Pipeline Builder.

Send Data to an Amazon S3 Archive from a Pipeline

Learn how to send data to an Amazon S3 archive from a telemetry pipeline.

Monitor Pipeline Health

Monitor the health of your telemetry pipelines with the Pipeline Installation operations template.