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Migrate Honeycomb time-series metrics

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Description

Honeycomb are changing the way time-series metrics are stored, which means we need to migrate dashboards and triggers by the 10th of December 2026.

Examples of dashboards which need to be updated.

Honeycomb say you don't need to change anything about the way metrics are collected, but we configure a jobrunner-metrics dataset which might now be redundant because Honeycomb will store all metrics in the same Metrics dataset.

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Research direction

Start with the Honeycomb migration guidance and the examples linked in the issue, then inspect services/otel-gateway/Dockerfile around the jobrunner-metrics dataset configuration. Identify all affected dashboards and triggers, migrate them to time-series metrics, and determine whether the separate dataset configuration is still needed. Done means the affected Honeycomb resources are migrated before 10 December 2026.

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Assessment

Tech stack
docker
Domain
observability-sre
Issue type
Refactor
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
50/100

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