Connect Honeycomb to Perplexity
Give Perplexity governed access to Honeycomb’s 38 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.
Set up
Add Honeycomb to Perplexity in four steps
Admins approve the server once. Everyone in Perplexity then gets it through the same governed connection.
- 1
Add Honeycomb to Runlayer
Honeycomb isn’t in the Runlayer catalog yet, so an admin adds it by its MCP server URL.
Adding a connector manually - 2
Connect Perplexity to Runlayer
Users add the Runlayer Plugin to Perplexity by following Runlayer’s setup guide. Perplexity reaches Honeycomb’s 38 tools through the Runlayer Plugin’s search and execute tools instead of listing each one.
Perplexity setup guide - 3
Sign in to Honeycomb
Sign in the way Honeycomb requires. Runlayer holds the credentials so they stay out of the client’s configuration.
- 4
Use Honeycomb from Perplexity
Honeycomb’s approved tools appear in Perplexity. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.
Tools
38 Honeycomb tools in Perplexity
Runlayer policy decides which of these Perplexity users can call.
Canvas agent invoke
Kick off a single-turn run of the Honeycomb Canvas agent.
Canvas agent poll response
Poll for the result of a previously-issued canvas_agent_invoke call.
Create board
Create a board (dashboard) with query, SLO, and text panels.
Create burn alert
Create a burn alert on an SLO.
Create marker
Creates a marker (a vertical annotation on charts) to mark a point or window in time, such as a deploy, incident, or config change.
Create recipient
Create a notification recipient (email, Slack, PagerDuty, or webhook) so it can be attached to triggers, SLO burn alerts, and Anomaly Detection.
Create slo
Create an SLO (Service Level Objective) backed by an auto-created SLI derived column.
Create trigger
Create a trigger that fires alerts when a query result crosses a threshold.
Control
What Runlayer can see and stop in Perplexity
Some controls apply to every client at the gateway. Others depend on what Perplexity exposes to Runlayer.
Gateway policy (available)
Every Honeycomb call from Perplexity passes through Runlayer, where your policies can allow, alert, mask, or block it.
Audit trail (available)
Each call is recorded with the user, Perplexity as the client, the tool, and the policy and scanner decisions.
Managed browser extension (available)
Managed Chrome, Edge, and Firefox deployments can monitor supported web-chat activity and apply prompt-time controls where the surface permits it.
Native enforcement adapter (not available)
Runlayer has no device-side adapter for Perplexity yet, so control happens at the gateway.
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