Honeycomb

The Observability Platform for High-Performing Engineering Teams.

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Overview

Honeycomb is an observability platform that enables engineering teams to understand and debug their production systems. It is built for high-cardinality and high-dimensionality data, allowing for deep exploration and analysis. Honeycomb's event-based data model and powerful query engine make it well-suited for troubleshooting complex issues in modern, distributed applications.

✨ Key Features

  • Event-based observability
  • High-cardinality data analysis
  • Powerful query engine
  • Distributed tracing
  • Service level objectives (SLOs)
  • Collaborative debugging tools

šŸŽÆ Key Differentiators

  • Event-based data model for deep analysis
  • Focus on high-cardinality data
  • Powerful and fast query engine

Unique Value: Provides the tools to ask new questions of your production systems and get answers in seconds, enabling fast and effective debugging.

šŸŽÆ Use Cases (4)

Debugging production issues Performance analysis Incident response Understanding system behavior

āœ… Best For

  • Troubleshooting complex microservice interactions
  • Analyzing the performance of high-throughput systems
  • Investigating the root cause of intermittent failures

šŸ’” Check With Vendor

Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:

  • Basic infrastructure monitoring with a focus on dashboards

šŸ† Alternatives

Lightstep Datadog New Relic

Offers a more exploratory and investigative approach to observability compared to traditional monitoring tools that are focused on pre-defined dashboards.

šŸ’» Platforms

Web API

šŸ”Œ Integrations

OpenTelemetry AWS Kubernetes Go Java Python

šŸ›Ÿ Support Options

  • āœ“ Email Support
  • āœ“ Live Chat
  • āœ“ Dedicated Support (Enterprise tier)

šŸ”’ Compliance & Security

āœ“ SOC 2 āœ“ GDPR āœ“ SSO āœ“ SOC 2 Type II

šŸ’° Pricing

Contact for pricing
Free Tier Available

āœ“ 14-day free trial

Free tier: Free for up to 20 million events per month.

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