Honeycomb module

Setup

Configure credentials via environment variables. We recommend sourcing them through 1Password or your secrets manager rather than committing them to the shell rc.

Official API reference

weave commands for this module are checked against the vendor's published API.

API Reference

Variable	Description	Status
HONEYCOMB_API_KEY	Required for authentication.	required

Sanity-check the wiring:

weave secrets check
weave honeycomb --help
weave doctor   # reports HONEYCOMB_API_KEY status

Capabilities

What this module can do, by entity and verb. ✓ means a working CLI surface; · means not (yet) wired.

Entity	find	list	show	do	snapshot	diff	apply
board	·	✓	·	·	·	·	·
dataset	·	✓	·	·	✓	✓	·
trigger	·	✓	·	·	·	·	·

Commands

Every registered CLI command, grouped by verb. Each example uses placeholder arguments — substitute real values for your environment.

list (3)

list boards

read

List boards.

weave honeycomb list boards <arg>

list datasets

read

List datasets.

weave honeycomb list datasets <arg>

list triggers

read

List triggers in a dataset (use __all__ for environment-wide).

weave honeycomb list triggers <dataset>

snapshot / diff / apply are generated automatically from the State Kinds declared on this module — see the State kinds section below for per-kind details. Workflow: snapshot → edit YAML → diff → apply --yes (or confirm interactively; apply --dry-run previews the same diff).

State kinds

Resources this module can snapshot and diff; apply where the kind supports live writes (see Round-trip per kind). Always run diff before apply; use --yes in automation after review. Files live under .weave-state/honeycomb/.

This module is on the thinner integration path — use snapshot / diff for audit; confirm apply per kind below before relying on writes.

datasets

snapshot diff apply

Honeycomb datasets — snapshot + diff only (slug/name are read-only).

Scope: —
Round-trip: Snapshot + diff (apply not wired).

State file skeleton

module: honeycomb
kind: datasets
items:
  - # <fields specific to this kind — see snapshot output>

Workflows

End-to-end recipes from operators who already run this module in production. Copy, adapt, and put under change-control.

Datasets audit

Snapshot and diff datasets (read-only; apply is intentionally not implemented).

weave honeycomb snapshot datasets
$EDITOR .weave-state/honeycomb/datasets.yaml
weave honeycomb diff datasets

Terraform parity

For each Terraform resource in the canonical provider, here's the equivalent live-API verb in weave. Use this as a migration cheat-sheet, not a 1:1 contract — weave deliberately stays in the live-state lane, not the desired-state lane.

Terraform resource	weave equivalent
honeycomb_datasets	weave honeycomb snapshot/diff datasets Snapshot/diff only; the vendor API does not support generic writes for this kind.

Troubleshooting & source

Missing credentials

Run weave doctor — it reports which env vars (including HONEYCOMB_API_KEY) are set and which are blank.

Unexpected behaviour from a state apply

Re-run weave honeycomb diff <kind> to confirm the controller's current state, then re-snapshot before the next apply. The driver always re-snapshots before diffing.

Open the source

The module lives at https://github.com/andy-broyles/weavewhatever/tree/main/src/weave/modules/honeycomb. File a bug or feature request at https://github.com/andy-broyles/weavewhatever/issues.