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Overview

This guide walks you through creating a Honeycomb Management API key to enable the Antimetal integration. Antimetal uses the key to query your datasets, traces, and triggers through Honeycomb’s MCP server.

Set up in Antimetal

Go to the Honeycomb integration setup in the Antimetal dashboard.

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Prerequisites

  • A Honeycomb team with Honeycomb Intelligence enabled
  • Team owner permission, which is required to create a Management API key

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Setup

1

Open API key settings

Log in to Honeycomb and go to Account > Team Settings > API Keys.
2

Create a Management API key

Click Create Management API Key and name it Antimetal.
3

Grant read scopes

Select the Model Context Protocol and Environments scopes, and grant Read on both. No write scopes are needed.
4

Copy the Key ID and Key Secret

Copy both the Key ID and the Key Secret.
The secret is shown only once. Save it securely.
5

Share the key with Antimetal

Provide the key in the Antimetal UI in KEY_ID:KEY_SECRET format.
Antimetal selects the US (mcp.honeycomb.io) or EU (mcp.eu1.honeycomb.io) endpoint automatically based on your account.

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Permissions and Access

Antimetal uses a read-only Management API key scoped to Model Context Protocol and Environments. It is restricted to listing and reading datasets, running queries, and analyzing columns. No write operations are performed.