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Honeybadger

INFRA · APIS
Velocity5.0

All-in-one application monitoring: error tracking, uptime, and cron/check-in monitoring

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Honeybadger's AI-search summer gives way to steady dashboard and admin polish.

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◆Current state
Honeybadger has grown well past exception monitoring: Insights captures HTTP events with auto-instrumentation in Ruby and now JavaScript, and dashboards are built from BadgerQL widgets. The July run of AI work (natural language search, anomaly-based alerting, a hosted MCP server with OAuth) has been followed since August by smaller additions: status page email subscriptions, readable click breadcrumbs, SAML role and team mapping, and one-click widget duplication.
◆Where it's heading
The big moves this year put AI interfaces on top of existing data; the recent cadence, roughly one entry a week, is filling in the enterprise and dashboard basics around them. SAML mapping and status-page subscriptions point at larger teams adopting the product, while Insights keeps adding language coverage on the way to an APM-style surface.
◆Prediction
Expect more Insights instrumentation for additional languages and further dashboard editing improvements. The entries since July show no new AI feature, so whether the AI layer expands next is unclear.

◆Recent moves

  1. 11d ago

    Duplicate widgets in Dashboards

    One-click widget duplication makes it faster to build variants of BadgerQL dashboard panels. A small editing convenience that follows September's JavaScript Insights support, as dashboards become the main surface for event data.

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  2. 1mo ago

    JavaScript integrations for Insights

    JS auto-instrumentation for HTTP requests brings Insights closer to full APM coverage — new config options for event correlation and custom handlers give teams meaningful control without manual span creation.

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  3. 1mo ago

    Send a bearer token with Honeybadger Webhooks

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  4. 1mo ago

    Support for SAML role and team mapping

    SAML assertion attributes can now map existing identity-provider roles and teams straight into Honeybadger projects. It removes manual team administration for larger organizations, part of the enterprise filling-in that followed July's AI releases.

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  5. 2mo ago

    Legible click breadcrumb selectors for JavaScript

    New JavaScript options let teams tag and sort clickable elements so breadcrumbs show readable names instead of long CSS selectors. It makes front-end error context easier to read without changing what is captured.

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  6. 2mo ago

    Email subscriptions for status pages

    Status page visitors can now subscribe by email to incident and maintenance updates. It extends Honeybadger's uptime and status tooling toward customer-facing incident communication.

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