Changelog B-Sides: MCP, Auto-Investigations, Alert Routing

Welcome to the Honeycomb Changelog B-Sides, Vol. 1, Fall 2026

Hear about important new features that didn't get fanfare!

• Toni Chou shows how GROUP BY alert routing lets you respond in your choice of ways to high-cardinality threshold alerts.
• Moses Mendoza demonstrates Canvas Auto-Investigations that remember all the previous investigations.
• Mei Luo shows how people can get their first data into Honeycomb using the MCP, without even changing code!

Chapters

0:00 Welcome to the B-Sides

1:20 Toni Chou: GROUP BY alert routing

4:05 Route each group's alerts to different teams

5:54 Moses Mendoza: Canvas auto-investigations

8:38 Auto-investigations that remember earlier alerts

12:43 Grouped alerts share one Canvas

15:04 Mei Luo: getting started with the Honeycomb MCP

17:25 Onboarding prompt: sample data without changing code

20:52 A Canvas tour of your new data