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Honeytail

Honeycomb

Log ingestion agent for parsing and sending structured events to Honeycomb.io.

Observability & Monitoring
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01Agent Notes

honeytail is a log ingestion agent for Honeycomb, not a management CLI. It parses log files and sends structured events. `honeytail --parser=json --file=/var/log/app.log`. For Honeycomb management, use the Honeycomb API. Supports parsers for JSON, regex, nginx, MySQL, MongoDB, and CSV formats. Use `--tail.read_from=end` for live tailing.

02Global Flags
FlagTypeDescription
--parserenum [json, regex, csv, keyval, nginx, mongo]Log parser type
--filestringLog file to process
--datasetstringHoneycomb dataset name
03Authentication
Methods
environment-variables
Env vars
HONEYCOMB_API_KEYHONEYCOMB_DATASET
Docsdocs.honeycomb.io/get-started/configure/environments
04Install
brew install honeycomb/honeycomb/honeytail
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05Capabilities
TracingLoggingMonitoring
Reference
binaryhoneytail
checkhoneytail --version
authenvironment-variables
formatstext
version1.10.0