New
This release brings a redesigned investigation surface built for how teams work today: with multiple humans and multiple agents collaborating on the same investigation in real time, agents that act autonomously when alerts fire, executable knowledge that teaches them how your systems work, and connections to the tools where your code lives.
Auto-investigations
When a trigger fires, an SLO burns, or anomaly detection flags unusual behavior, Canvas can now start investigating on its own. By the time you open the alert, an agent has already pulled the relevant traces, run the queries, and surfaced the findings, so you walk into context rather than a blank page.
Multiplayer
Multiple humans and agents can now work on the same investigation simultaneously. Each person gets their own agent thread, and the canvas itself becomes the shared record of how the team figured things out. When a teammate joins mid-incident, they can see exactly what's been tried and can quickly summarize where the investigation stands.
Built-in & Custom Skills
Canvas ships with a set of built-in skills that help the agent investigate as an expert Honeycomb user would. And you can write your own. Custom skills let you encode the runbook your team has perfected: the order to check things, the patterns to watch for, the tribal knowledge usually trapped in someone's head. Each skill has a description that tells the agent when to use it, or you can invoke it directly in the Canvas.
GitHub Integration
Canvas can now connect to your GitHub repositories to ground investigations in your actual code. Ask why an endpoint is slow, and Canvas can correlate the telemetry with the code path that produced it, the recent commits that touched it, and the open PRs that reference it.
Honeycomb Canvas Slack App
Ask questions of your Honeycomb data without leaving Slack. Mention @Honeycomb Canvas in any channel to investigate production issues, explore service behavior, or get quick answers without any context switching. When auto-investigations is also enabled for a trigger or SLO alert or when anomaly detection flags an issue, the Honeycomb Canvas Slack app responds with the investigation findings directly in the thread so you can get the context you need immediately.
Ask Canvas
Chat with your data from anywhere in Honeycomb. Open the Ask Canvas chat from any page and ask questions in natural language, whether you're trying to understand how to read a query or board, or just want a quick read on what's happening. Click the floating Canvas icon on the lower right of any page to start asking questions. When you want to transition to a deeper investigation, simply navigate from the chat into the full Canvas interface to continue your exploration.
