What is Honeycomb?
We built Honeycomb to answer the hard questions that come up when you're trying to operate your softwareâto debug microservices, serverless, distributed systems, polyglot persistence, containers, and a world of fast, parallel deploys.
Honeycomb is a tool in the Performance Monitoring category of a tech stack.
Who uses Honeycomb?
Companies
19 companies reportedly use Honeycomb in their tech stacks, including LaunchDarkly, CircleCI, and FISPAN.
Developers
51 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Honeycomb.
Honeycomb Integrations
JavaScript, Python, Node.js, MySQL, and Slack are some of the popular tools that integrate with Honeycomb. Here's a list of all 26 tools that integrate with Honeycomb.
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Honeycomb's Features
- High-performance querying against high-cardinality or sparse events.
- Accepts any structured JSON objects with a write key.
- Submit events via API.
- Open source agents, log tailers, SDKs, and integrations.
- Customizable high-performance query windows.
- Customizable storage windows provide control over retention and costs.
- Always have access to the the raw data behind query results and graphs.
- Shared boards.
- Individual and team query histories.
- Triggers and notifications.
- Secure Tenancy for data compliance.
Honeycomb Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Honeycomb?
Datadog
Datadog is the leading service for cloud-scale monitoring. It is used by IT, operations, and development teams who build and operate applications that run on dynamic or hybrid cloud infrastructure. Start monitoring in minutes with Datadog!
Beehive
Beehive is an event and agent system, which allows you to create your own agents that perform automated tasks triggered by events and filters. It is modular, flexible and really easy to extend for anyone. It has modules (we call them Hives), so it can interface with, talk to, or retrieve information from Twitter, Tumblr, Email, IRC, Jabber, RSS, Jenkins, Hue - to name just a few.
New Relic
The worldâs best software and DevOps teams rely on New Relic to move faster, make better decisions and create best-in-class digital experiences. If you run software, you need to run New Relic. More than 50% of the Fortune 100 do too.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
