{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "honeycomb-mcp", "name": "Honeycomb MCP", "vendor": "Honeycomb", "vendorUrl": "https://www.honeycomb.io", "kind": "mcp", "category": "observability", "summary": "Honeycomb's hosted MCP server lets AI agents query a team's traces, metrics and events, run BubbleUp analysis, and create or update Boards, Triggers and SLOs. It uses OAuth or a Management API key and has US and EU endpoints.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/honeycomb-mcp", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/honeycomb-mcp.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/honeycomb-mcp.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/honeycomb-mcp.json", "repo": "https://github.com/honeycombio/agent-skill", "license": "Proprietary hosted service under Honeycomb's Terms of Service and Honeycomb Intelligence Supplemental Terms. The companion plugin in honeycombio/agent-skill is MIT", "transports": [ "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://mcp.honeycomb.io/mcp", "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "OAuth is the documented default. The server at https://mcp.honeycomb.io/mcp answers 401 with a pointer to its protected-resource metadata, and ui.honeycomb.io is the authorisation server, with PKCE S256, dynamic client registration and the scopes `mcp:read` and `mcp:write`. Write tools need `mcp:write`, granted at consent. Unattended agents can send a Management API key as `Authorization: Bearer \u003cKEY_ID\u003e:\u003cSECRET_KEY\u003e`, with Read or Write under Model Context Protocol and access under Environments. Only a Team Owner can create that key, and its scopes can't be changed later. Access is self-serve, but a Team Owner must first enable Honeycomb Intelligence for the team.", "pricing": "byo-plan", "pricingNotes": "No separate charge. Honeycomb MCP is in the feature list of every plan, the Free plan included (20 million events and 100 million metric data points a month). Pro starts at $150 a month for 50 million events and Enterprise is quoted. The signup page asks for an email address or a Google account, and the signup guide names no payment step, so an agent's owner can start without a contract (https://www.honeycomb.io/pricing, checked 2026-10-09).", "priceSummary": "Your plan", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the MCP docs, the pricing page or the terms (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 34, "popularity": { "githubStars": 27, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.honeycomb.io/integrations/mcp/", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.honeycomb.io/llms.txt", "registryName": "io.honeycomb/mcp", "capabilities": [ "observability.traces", "observability.metrics", "observability.logs" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "mcp", "oauth", "api-key", "toolsets", "free-tier", "eu-region", "llms-txt", "mcp-registry", "status-page", "soc2" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-29", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 58.3, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 584, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 5, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 53, "maintenance": 61, "payments": 30, "reliability": 65, "schema": 57, "security": 71, "transparency": 68 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "OAuth with `mcp:read` and `mcp:write` scopes keeps the 34 tools read-only until write access is granted, and per-tool rate limits are published. Tool input schemas are visible only after sign-in, and no injection guidance was found for telemetry content. The product changelogs disallow unnamed crawlers, so release history went unread.", "bestFor": "Agents that investigate latency and error spikes in a team already sending traces and events to Honeycomb, and that record findings as Boards, Triggers or SLOs.", "strengths": [ "OAuth with PKCE, dynamic client registration and two scopes. Write tools need `mcp:write`, granted at consent or on the API key", "Per-tool rate limits are published, from 10 calls a minute for `get_service_map` to 300 for semantic-convention lookups", "Listed in the official MCP registry as `io.honeycomb/mcp` 1.0.0, under the vendor's own domain namespace", "Included in the Free plan (20 million events a month), with separate US and EU endpoints", "The Activity Log records OAuth sessions with granted scopes and each query run with its source, MCP included" ], "weaknesses": [ "Tool input schemas and annotations are visible only through `tools/list` after sign-in. The public reference gives descriptions, not parameters", "No guidance on prompt injection was found, although trace and log content returned to the agent is untrusted text", "The status page has no MCP component. US1 queries over older data failed for 67 minutes on 10 August 2026", "No SLA was found, and the AI terms allow Honeycomb to change or end any Honeycomb Intelligence feature at any time", "A Team Owner must enable Honeycomb Intelligence first, and API key scopes can't be changed after creation" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use https://mcp.honeycomb.io/mcp for US teams and https://mcp.eu1.honeycomb.io/mcp for EU teams. A team's data lives in one region only", "If no tools appear after sign-in, ask a Team Owner to enable Honeycomb Intelligence in team settings", "Send `X-MCP-Toolset: query` or `canvas` to load a subset of the 34 tools. An empty or unknown value makes every request fail", "Call `get_workspace_context` first, then `find_columns`, before `run_query`. Pass absolute time ranges as epoch timestamps", "For unattended runs send `Authorization: Bearer \u003cKEY_ID\u003e:\u003cSECRET_KEY\u003e` from a Management key with only Model Context Protocol and Environments scopes" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 58.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 53, "maintenance": 61, "payments": 30, "reliability": 65, "schema": 57, "security": 71, "transparency": 64 }, "provenanceScore": 71 }, "connect": { "claudeCode": "claude mcp add honeycomb --transport http https://mcp.honeycomb.io/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "honeycomb": { "url": "https://mcp.honeycomb.io/mcp" } } }, "headless": { "mcpServers": { "honeycomb": { "args": [ "-y", "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.honeycomb.io/mcp", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer $HONEYCOMB_API_KEY" ], "command": "npx", "env": { "HONEYCOMB_API_KEY": "\u003cKEY_ID\u003e:\u003cSECRET_KEY\u003e" } } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/observability.traces", "tool": "https://letme.dev/honeycomb-mcp" }, "area": "developer", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Pro plan, 50 million events", "unit": "month", "usd": 150, "note": "Starting price. MCP is also in the Free plan at no charge" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Hound Technology, Inc. d/b/a Honeycomb", "domain": "honeycomb.io", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.honeycomb.io/terms", "privacy": "https://www.honeycomb.io/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.honeycomb.io", "changelog": "https://changelog.honeycomb.io/", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "The Terms of Service (effective 22 May 2025) name Hound Technology, Inc. d/b/a Honeycomb, are governed by California law, and incorporate the Honeycomb Intelligence Supplemental Terms at honeycomb.io/ai-terms and the Data Processing Addendum at honeycomb.io/dpa.", "The Privacy Notice (last updated 24 July 2025) covers the website and the services, and says it does not apply to content customers submit under a customer account. The DPA (last updated 22 May 2025) governs that content.", "The MCP server answers at mcp.honeycomb.io and mcp.eu1.honeycomb.io, and the OAuth server at ui.honeycomb.io, all honeycomb.io subdomains.", "www.honeycomb.io/.well-known/security.txt and /security.txt return 404. Reports go to security@honeycomb.io under a bug bounty programme whose stated scope is ui.honeycomb.io and api.honeycomb.io.", "changelog.honeycomb.io and api-changelog.honeycomb.io disallow every path to unnamed crawlers in robots.txt, so neither was read.", "The .io registry has no RDAP service that answered, so the domain's registration date is not recorded." ], "score": 71 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/honeycomb-mcp.json", "live": { "slug": "honeycomb-mcp", "probe": { "target": "https://mcp.honeycomb.io/mcp", "method": "mcp-initialize", "lastAt": "2026-10-10T03:53:29.997184771Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 340, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 339, "p95ms24h": 400, "samples24h": 209, "samples30d": 209, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 169, "ok": 169 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 40, "ok": 40 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.honeycomb.io", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T03:58:23.913817544Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "io.honeycomb/mcp", "version": "1.0.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-10T03:11:32.438759038Z" } ], "githubStars": 27, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://honeycomb.io/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T15:40:36.702601043Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.honeycomb.io/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T14:02:08.567657489Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://changelog.honeycomb.io/", "kind": "changelog", "status": 0, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:33:43.663659596Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "blockedByRobots": true }, { "url": "https://www.honeycomb.io/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:50:57.26575822Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "d1526772b6d3" }, { "url": "https://www.honeycomb.io/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:50:59.482479235Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "1213deaed31c" }, { "url": "https://www.honeycomb.io/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:51:01.726050398Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "89c81c3753f7" } ], "mcpTools": { "url": "https://mcp.honeycomb.io/mcp", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T21:40:43.761722159Z", "status": "auth", "note": "asks for credentials before listing its tools", "changedAt": "2026-10-09T21:40:43.761722159Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T03:58:23.913817544Z" } }, "answer": "Sentry MCP scores 70.2 (BB) on agent readiness against Honeycomb MCP's 58.3 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Honeycomb MCP leads on reliability.", "b": { "slug": "sentry-mcp", "name": "Sentry MCP", "vendor": "Sentry", "vendorUrl": "https://sentry.io", "kind": "mcp", "category": "observability", "summary": "Sentry's MCP for searching errors and traces, triaging issues, reading docs and managing projects, with agent-embedded natural-language search tools.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sentry-mcp", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sentry-mcp.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sentry-mcp.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/sentry-mcp.json", "repo": "https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-mcp", "license": "FSL-1.1-Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "stdio", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://mcp.sentry.dev/mcp", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@sentry/mcp-server" } ], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "Remote uses Sentry's own OAuth layer, where the user picks skills (Inspect and Seer by default, Triage and Manage Projects opt-in), or a `Sentry-Bearer` header with a Sentry token. The upstream token always carries org:read, project:write, team:write, event:write and alerts:write. Stdio uses SENTRY_ACCESS_TOKEN, with --host/SENTRY_HOST for self-hosted. Org or project scoping in the URL hides discovery tools; ?experimental=1 enables experimental variants.", "pricing": "byo-plan", "pricingNotes": "No separate charge; uses your Sentry org. AI-powered search tools require an LLM provider key when self-hosting the server.", "priceSummary": "Your plan", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 support in README or docs.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 68, "popularity": { "githubStars": 837, "npmWeekly": 90552, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-26" }, "docsUrl": "https://mcp.sentry.dev/", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.sentry.io/llms.txt", "registryName": "io.github.getsentry/sentry-mcp", "capabilities": [ "observability.errors" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "local", "source-available", "oauth" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-25", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 70.2, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 160, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 2, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 85, "maintenance": 90, "payments": 40, "reliability": 46, "schema": 87, "security": 75, "transparency": 81 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "OAuth with skills chosen at consent, Inspect and Seer (read-only) by default. No MCP component on status.sentry.io and no SLA.", "bestFor": "Coding agents that triage and fix production errors from Sentry. datadog-mcp covers wider observability data, pagerduty-mcp on-call and incidents.", "strengths": [ "OAuth with skills chosen at consent, Inspect and Seer (read-only) by default", "Nine top-level tools with on-demand loading of 59 more, plus org and project scoping in the URL", "Descriptions with usage guidance, examples and hints, and typed errors with recovery advice", "Read-only, destructive and idempotent annotations across the catalogue", "Five releases since 26 August 2026 and a registry entry published from CI" ], "weaknesses": [ "No MCP component on status.sentry.io and no SLA", "The upstream Sentry token always holds project, team, event and alert write scopes", "`execute_sentry_tool` wraps every catalogue tool, which breaks per-tool approval (issue #1254)", "Functional Source License, not OSI-approved until each version's two-year conversion", "Hosted telemetry records tool arguments and results, and the public site doesn't mention it" ], "agentNotes": [ "Put the org and project in the URL (mcp.sentry.dev/mcp/\u003corg\u003e/\u003cproject\u003e) to drop the discovery tools", "Call `search_sentry_tools` to find a catalogue tool, then `execute_sentry_tool` to run it", "Use `get_sentry_resource` with an issue or trace URL when you have one. It's faster than natural-language search", "Grant Triage only when the task needs to resolve or assign issues. The default skills are read-only", "Expect `?experimental=1` tool variants to change between releases" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 70.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 85, "maintenance": 90, "payments": 40, "reliability": 46, "schema": 87, "security": 75, "transparency": 70 }, "provenanceScore": 91 }, "connect": { "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http sentry https://mcp.sentry.dev/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "sentry": { "url": "https://mcp.sentry.dev/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/observability.errors", "tool": "https://letme.dev/sentry-mcp" }, "area": "developer", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Functional Software, Inc. d/b/a Sentry", "domain": "sentry.dev", "domainRegistered": "2019-02-22", "domainNote": "The MCP server runs on sentry.dev, Sentry's secondary domain. Its security.txt redirects to sentry.io.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://sentry.io/terms/", "privacy": "https://sentry.io/privacy/", "statusPage": "https://status.sentry.io", "changelog": "https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-mcp/releases", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-09-26", "score": 91 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sentry-mcp.json", "live": { "slug": "sentry-mcp", "probe": { "target": "https://mcp.sentry.dev/mcp", "method": "mcp-initialize", "lastAt": "2026-10-10T03:53:43.350007946Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 49, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 52, "p95ms24h": 145, "samples24h": 249, "samples30d": 3430, "days": [ { "date": "2026-09-27", "probes": 132, "ok": 132 }, { "date": "2026-09-28", "probes": 285, "ok": 285 }, { "date": "2026-09-29", "probes": 286, "ok": 286 }, { "date": "2026-09-30", "probes": 286, "ok": 286 }, { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 276, "ok": 276 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 40, "ok": 40 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.sentry.io", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T03:58:46.20916631Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "getsentry/sentry-mcp", "version": "cli@0.47.0", "released": "2026-10-05", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:19:15.787189602Z" }, { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "io.github.getsentry/sentry-mcp", "version": "0.42.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-10T03:11:32.438759038Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@sentry/mcp-server", "version": "0.42.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T17:19:15.508772209Z" } ], "githubStars": 919, "npmWeekly": 102729, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://sentry.dev/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T15:40:04.054818288Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.sentry.io/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T14:02:45.648438264Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "sentry.dev", "registered": "2019-02-22", "source": "https://pubapi.registry.google/rdap/domain/sentry.dev", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:05:20.828321447Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://sentry.io/privacy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:45:10.007458813Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "2ae8c285adef" }, { "url": "https://sentry.io/terms/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:45:12.288702246Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "2467e8cf5af9" } ], "mcpTools": { "url": "https://mcp.sentry.dev/mcp", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T21:40:55.632413787Z", "status": "auth", "note": "asks for credentials before listing its tools", "changedAt": "2026-09-28T21:55:54.523074666Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T03:58:46.20916631Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "MCP server", "b": "MCP server", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Honeycomb", "b": "Sentry", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://mcp.honeycomb.io/mcp", "b": "https://mcp.sentry.dev/mcp", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "Streamable HTTP", "b": "stdio, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Your plan", "b": "Your plan", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary hosted service under Honeycomb's Terms of Service and Honeycomb Intelligence Supplemental Terms. 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Honeycomb MCP leads on reliability.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Honeycomb MCP or Sentry MCP?" }, { "answer": "Honeycomb MCP takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Sentry MCP uses an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Honeycomb MCP and Sentry MCP need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Honeycomb MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.honeycomb.io/mcp and Sentry MCP at https://mcp.sentry.dev/mcp.", "question": "Can an agent call Honeycomb MCP and Sentry MCP without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 65 against 46" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Agents that investigate latency and error spikes in a team already sending traces and events to Honeycomb, and that record findings as Boards, Triggers or SLOs.", "slug": "honeycomb-mcp", "watchFor": "Tool input schemas and annotations are visible only through `tools/list` after sign-in. The public reference gives descriptions, not parameters" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 87 against 57", "Agent ergonomics, 85 against 53", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 30", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 90 against 61", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 81 against 68" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better", "Runs on your own machine" ], "goodFor": "Coding agents that triage and fix production errors from Sentry. datadog-mcp covers wider observability data, pagerduty-mcp on-call and incidents.", "slug": "sentry-mcp", "watchFor": "No MCP component on status.sentry.io and no SLA" } ], "job": { "capability": "observability.telemetry", "name": "Errors, metrics, logs and traces" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datadog-mcp-vs-sentry-mcp.json", "title": "Datadog MCP Server vs Sentry MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datadog-mcp-vs-sentry-mcp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grafana-mcp-server-vs-sentry-mcp.json", "title": "Grafana MCP Server vs Sentry MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grafana-mcp-server-vs-sentry-mcp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datadog-mcp-vs-honeycomb-mcp.json", "title": "Datadog MCP Server vs Honeycomb MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datadog-mcp-vs-honeycomb-mcp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grafana-mcp-server-vs-honeycomb-mcp.json", "title": "Grafana MCP Server vs Honeycomb MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grafana-mcp-server-vs-honeycomb-mcp" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 19, "edge": "honeycomb-mcp", "honeycomb-mcp": 65, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "sentry-mcp": 46, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 30, "edge": "sentry-mcp", "honeycomb-mcp": 57, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "sentry-mcp": 87, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 32, "edge": "sentry-mcp", "honeycomb-mcp": 53, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "sentry-mcp": 85, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 4, "edge": "sentry-mcp", "honeycomb-mcp": 71, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "sentry-mcp": 75, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "sentry-mcp", "honeycomb-mcp": 30, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "sentry-mcp": 40, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 29, "edge": "sentry-mcp", "honeycomb-mcp": 61, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "sentry-mcp": 90, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 13, "edge": "sentry-mcp", "honeycomb-mcp": 68, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "sentry-mcp": 81, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Sentry MCP scores 70.2 (BB) on agent readiness against Honeycomb MCP's 58.3 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Honeycomb MCP leads on reliability. Both do errors, metrics, logs and traces.", "verdicts": { "honeycomb-mcp": "OAuth with `mcp:read` and `mcp:write` scopes keeps the 34 tools read-only until write access is granted, and per-tool rate limits are published. Tool input schemas are visible only after sign-in, and no injection guidance was found for telemetry content. The product changelogs disallow unnamed crawlers, so release history went unread.", "sentry-mcp": "OAuth with skills chosen at consent, Inspect and Seer (read-only) by default. No MCP component on status.sentry.io and no SLA." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/honeycomb-mcp-vs-sentry-mcp", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/honeycomb-mcp-vs-sentry-mcp.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/honeycomb-mcp-vs-sentry-mcp.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/honeycomb-mcp-vs-sentry-mcp.min.md" }, "markdown": "Sentry MCP scores 70.2 (BB) on agent readiness against Honeycomb MCP's 58.3 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Honeycomb MCP leads on reliability. Both do errors, metrics, logs and traces.\n\n- Honeycomb MCP: grade C, 58.3/100, rank #584 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/honeycomb-mcp.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/honeycomb-mcp.json\n- Sentry MCP: grade BB, 70.2/100, rank #160 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sentry-mcp.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/sentry-mcp.json\n- Best observability and incident tools for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/observability/index.md\n- All 15 observability comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/observability/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Honeycomb MCP (C)\n\nGood for: Agents that investigate latency and error spikes in a team already sending traces and events to Honeycomb, and that record findings as Boards, Triggers or SLOs.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 65 against 46\n\nWatch for: Tool input schemas and annotations are visible only through `tools/list` after sign-in. The public reference gives descriptions, not parameters\n\n### Sentry MCP (BB)\n\nGood for: Coding agents that triage and fix production errors from Sentry. datadog-mcp covers wider observability data, pagerduty-mcp on-call and incidents.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 87 against 57\n- Agent ergonomics, 85 against 53\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 90 against 61\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 81 against 68\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: No MCP component on status.sentry.io and no SLA\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Honeycomb MCP | Sentry MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 65 | 46 | Honeycomb MCP +19 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 57 | 87 | Sentry MCP +30 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 53 | 85 | Sentry MCP +32 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 71 | 75 | Sentry MCP +4 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 40 | Sentry MCP +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 61 | 90 | Sentry MCP +29 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 68 | 81 | Sentry MCP +13 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **58.3 · C** | **70.2 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Honeycomb MCP | Sentry MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | MCP server | MCP server |\n| Vendor | Honeycomb | Sentry |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.honeycomb.io/mcp` | `https://mcp.sentry.dev/mcp` |\n| Transports | Streamable HTTP | stdio, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |\n| Pricing | Your plan | Your plan |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary hosted service under Honeycomb's Terms of Service and Honeycomb Intelligence Supplemental Terms. The companion plugin in honeycombio/agent-skill is MIT | FSL-1.1-Apache-2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | 34 | 68 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | `io.honeycomb/mcp` | `io.github.getsentry/sentry-mcp` |\n| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-09-25 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-05-22 | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 27 stars | 837 stars, 91k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Honeycomb MCP.** OAuth with `mcp:read` and `mcp:write` scopes keeps the 34 tools read-only until write access is granted, and per-tool rate limits are published. Tool input schemas are visible only after sign-in, and no injection guidance was found for telemetry content. The product changelogs disallow unnamed crawlers, so release history went unread.\n\n**Sentry MCP.** OAuth with skills chosen at consent, Inspect and Seer (read-only) by default. No MCP component on status.sentry.io and no SLA.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Honeycomb MCP\n\n1. Use https://mcp.honeycomb.io/mcp for US teams and https://mcp.eu1.honeycomb.io/mcp for EU teams. A team's data lives in one region only\n2. If no tools appear after sign-in, ask a Team Owner to enable Honeycomb Intelligence in team settings\n3. Send `X-MCP-Toolset: query` or `canvas` to load a subset of the 34 tools. An empty or unknown value makes every request fail\n4. Call `get_workspace_context` first, then `find_columns`, before `run_query`. Pass absolute time ranges as epoch timestamps\n5. For unattended runs send `Authorization: Bearer \u003cKEY_ID\u003e:\u003cSECRET_KEY\u003e` from a Management key with only Model Context Protocol and Environments scopes\n\n### Sentry MCP\n\n1. Put the org and project in the URL (mcp.sentry.dev/mcp/\u003corg\u003e/\u003cproject\u003e) to drop the discovery tools\n2. Call `search_sentry_tools` to find a catalogue tool, then `execute_sentry_tool` to run it\n3. Use `get_sentry_resource` with an issue or trace URL when you have one. It's faster than natural-language search\n4. Grant Triage only when the task needs to resolve or assign issues. The default skills are read-only\n5. Expect `?experimental=1` tool variants to change between releases\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Honeycomb MCP or Sentry MCP?\n\nSentry MCP scores 70.2 (BB) on agent readiness against Honeycomb MCP's 58.3 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. 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