diff --git a/changelog.d/21878_request_body_of_honeycomb_sink.fix.md b/changelog.d/21878_request_body_of_honeycomb_sink.fix.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..8bd41956086c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/21878_request_body_of_honeycomb_sink.fix.md
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+The request body of the Honeycomb sink should be encoded as an array according to [the API docs](https://docs.honeycomb.io/api/tag/Events#operation/createEvents).
+
+authors: hgiasac
diff --git a/src/sinks/honeycomb/encoder.rs b/src/sinks/honeycomb/encoder.rs
index 0b9ccd429063d..7f0f0634cc4a1 100644
--- a/src/sinks/honeycomb/encoder.rs
+++ b/src/sinks/honeycomb/encoder.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 //! Encoding for the `honeycomb` sink.
 
-use bytes::BytesMut;
+use bytes::Bytes;
 use chrono::{SecondsFormat, Utc};
 use serde_json::{json, to_vec};
 use std::io;
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ impl SinkEncoder<Vec<Event>> for HoneycombEncoder {
         writer: &mut dyn io::Write,
     ) -> io::Result<(usize, GroupedCountByteSize)> {
         let mut byte_size = telemetry().create_request_count_byte_size();
-        let mut body = BytesMut::new();
         let n_events = events.len();
+        let mut json_events: Vec<serde_json::Value> = Vec::with_capacity(n_events);
 
         for mut event in events {
             self.transformer.transform(&mut event);
@@ -37,15 +37,15 @@ impl SinkEncoder<Vec<Event>> for HoneycombEncoder {
                 Utc::now()
             };
 
-            let data = to_vec(&json!({
+            let data = json!({
                 "time": timestamp.to_rfc3339_opts(SecondsFormat::Nanos, true),
                 "data": log.convert_to_fields(),
-            }))?;
+            });
 
-            body.extend(&data);
+            json_events.push(data);
         }
 
-        let body = body.freeze();
+        let body = Bytes::from(to_vec(&serde_json::Value::Array(json_events))?);
 
         write_all(writer, n_events, body.as_ref()).map(|()| (body.len(), byte_size))
     }