Honeycomb

Honeycomb is an observability platform built for debugging complex, distributed production systems, letting engineers explore high-cardinality event data to understand and troubleshoot what their software is actually doing. Unlike traditional metrics-and-dashboards monitoring, it emphasizes fast, iterative querying of rich event data to answer novel questions about system behavior.

The platform ingests events and traces, supports high-cardinality querying, and features BubbleUp for automatically surfacing what is different about anomalous events, plus service-level objectives (SLOs) and distributed tracing. Its event-based, query-driven approach helps engineers debug the unknown-unknowns of modern microservices and cloud-native systems that dashboards struggle with.

Honeycomb prices by events (not hosts or users): a Free plan covering up to 20 million events per month, a Pro plan from around 130 dollars per month (scaling to over a billion events) adding SSO, more triggers, and SLOs, and a custom Enterprise plan (from roughly 1,000 dollars per month, starting at 10 billion events a year) with advanced security, retention, and support. Aimed at engineering teams running distributed systems, it competes with Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, SigNoz, and Sentry.