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Honeycomb Incident Report: Kafka Maintenance on May 4 and 7, 2026

calendar_today June 19, 2026 person Fred Hebert domain honeycomb

On May 4th in the EU instance, and May 7th in the US instance, Honeycomb ran its only scheduled maintenance session with major planned downtime in the last five years. The maintenance aimed to replace the decade-old Kafka cluster at the core of event ingestion in all of Honeycomb with a newer, more reliable and scalable cluster.

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