Honeycomb’s ‘private Cloud’ Is Largely About Opentelemetry, Ai And Aws

The observability supplier Honeycomb has named its caller offering for backstage unreality — eponymously called Private Cloud. It is mostly designed to accommodate nan detonation of codification and AI hallucinations, for which observability is progressively required.

Additionally, it is almost exclusively for AWS. That excludes, astatine this time, nan different awesome hyperscalers arsenic good arsenic on-premises environments. OpenTelemetry besides plays a awesome role, peculiarly successful standardization, particularly for metrics.

“Our privilege is gathering our customers wherever they are, erstwhile they request us. While our first motorboat of Honeycomb Private Cloud is designed for Amazon Web Services arsenic portion of our agelong business pinch AWS, we expect request successful offering this connected different unreality platforms successful nan future, specified arsenic Azure aliases GCP,” Austin Parker, caput of unfastened root for Honeycomb, told me.

Gartner Perspective

Aside from Honeycomb’s backstage unreality being AWS-centric, its creation ostensibly addresses nan different challenges, criteria, and needs outlined successful Gartner analysts Pankaj Prasad and Matt Crossley’s annual hype rhythm study connected observability and monitoring, published successful July. They concluded that observability is uniquely positioned to reside nan challenges they outlined successful their report.

“IT complexity and integer transformation: The accelerated gait of integer transformation, complexity of modern architectures, expanding complexity wrong hybrid unreality environments, AI-driven systems, and nan request for improved customer acquisition and enhanced worker engagement require heads of I&O to negociate aggregate analyzable hybrid topologies and merge aggregate disparate monitoring solutions,” Prasad and Crossley write. “Up to 84% of existent observability users struggle pinch nan costs and complexity of their regular monitoring responsibilities. Observability is uniquely positioned to reside these exertion challenges.”

The emergence of generative AI (GenAI) is driving caller usage cases for observability. It accelerates automation done nan creation of diagnostic summaries, automation playbooks and argumentation enforcement tools,” Prasad and Crossley write. “As a result, ‘AI’ is now surpassing ‘digital’ arsenic nan apical exertion privilege for CEOs, further accelerating nan take of observability and paving nan measurement for much autonomous operations,” Prasad and Crossley write.

Additional Details

In a blog post, Honeycomb’s Emily Nakashima, elder vice president, engineering, described successful much item what is connected connection pinch Honeycomb’s preamble of Private Cloud. He described these as:

1. Honeycomb-managed

Honeycomb handles deployment, operations, and maintenance, including installation, upgrades, and scaling. There are 2 options: Honeycomb-hosted puts nan installation wrong Honeycomb-controlled AWS infrastructure for a hands-off experience. Customer-hosted places nan installation wrong nan customer’s AWS environment. This provides power complete information and web policies for regulated industries for illustration healthcare and finance while leveraging Honeycomb’s operational expertise.

2. Self-managed

Organizations pinch mature DevOps teams tally nan package wholly wrong their ain AWS environment. Customers grip deployment and attraction according to soul policies, while Honeycomb provides support and upgrade guidance. This is intended for air-gapped aliases highly unafraid environments requiring full infrastructure control.

3. Tenancy and AI

Both models connection single-tenant setups for strict isolation aliases multitenant setups for logical separation betwixt business units. Honeycomb Private Cloud includes AI features specified arsenic Canvas for natural-language telemetry exploration and MCP for automated anomaly discovery via heatmaps and histograms.

4. Compliance and Security

The level meets GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC 2 Type II, and CSA STAR Level 1 standards. Customers take betwixt U.S., European, and APAC AWS Regions for information residency. Security measures see audit logging, penetration testing, and regular reviews of AWS partner infrastructure.

Huge Strides successful 2025

OpenTelemetry (OTel) has made huge strides successful 2025, becoming much accessible not only crossed different programming languages, but besides crossed metrics, logs and now traces. Thanks to standardization, nan introduction period has been importantly lowered, which is why we are seeing a number of caller and increasing observability players offering their solutions.

Working pinch OpenTelemetry and improving upon nan acquisition pinch it are key, arsenic Honeycomb — arsenic good arsenic observability providers that wish to stay contenders, I would reason — has realized. “We proceed to put heavy successful OpenTelemetry arsenic we’re seeing our largest and astir successful endeavor customers adopting it crossed their applications, including our caller OpenTelemetry-native metrics product, nan first of its benignant successful nan observability space,” Parker said. “AI is changing nan world, and Honeycomb is providing observability for nan workloads of coming — and tomorrow.”

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