Honeycomb
The observability platform for modern engineering teams to understand and debug complex systems.
Query Speed
Sub-second queries across trillions of events
Data Retention
60 days for Pro plans
Integrations
OpenTelemetry native, plus SDKs for major languages
About Honeycomb
Honeycomb provides full-stack observability designed to help teams write and maintain resilient, high-performing services. By analyzing structured event data, it allows engineers to trace the entire lifecycle of a request, identify bottlenecks, and debug complex issues in distributed systems. The platform is built to handle high-cardinality and high-dimensionality data, making it suitable for microservices, serverless, and other modern architectures. Honeycomb promotes a culture of proactive debugging and performance optimization, moving beyond traditional monitoring to provide actionable insights. It integrates with various languages and frameworks through its SDKs and OpenTelemetry, positioning itself as a key tool for teams practicing DevOps and SRE.
Core Features
Bubbleup
Automatically highlights anomalous attributes in a selected group of traces to speed up debugging.
Traces
Provides a detailed, event-by-event story of how a request is processed across a distributed system.
Metrics
Derive metrics from event data to understand system-wide trends and performance.
Service Level Objectives (Slos)
Define, measure, and manage reliability goals based on user experience.
Data Ingestion
Opentelemetry
Native support for the OpenTelemetry standard for collecting traces, metrics, and logs.
Sdks (Beelines)
Custom SDKs for languages like Go, Python, Ruby, Java, and Node.js for easy instrumentation.
Integrations
Integrates with various proxies, service meshes, and cloud providers like AWS and Kubernetes.