Honeycomb is an observability tool focused on high-cardinality event data and distributed tracing for debugging complex production systems. Founded in 2016, it is OpenTelemetry-native and aimed at engineering teams that need to investigate unpredictable behavior across services rather than rely on classic infrastructure dashboards. It offers a free tier with a monthly event allowance and uses event-based pricing for paid plans. The service is a closed-source SaaS centered on traces and events (it does not provide infrastructure metrics or RUM) and carries SOC2, ISO27001, and HIPAA compliance.
tracingapmfree-tierhigh-cardinalityopentelemetry
Overview
- Founded
- 2016
- Pricing tier
- Mid
- Startup-friendly
- Yes
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
Monitoring & APM
- Free tier
- Yes: Free tier (20M events/month).
- APM
- Yes
- Infrastructure monitoring
- No
- Logs
- Yes
- Real user monitoring
- No
- Open-source
- No
- Self-hostable
- No