
Overview
Honeycomb is an observability platform for cloud native apps that gives you high-level data regarding how your services are performing, combined with the ability to drill down all the way to the individual user level to troubleshoot issues without having to hop across different data types to piece the data together.
Traditionally, when debugging production incidents with dashboards and metrics, it is difficult to drill down beyond aggregate measures. For example, a graph with error rates can't tell you which exact customers are experiencing the most errors. Logs can show you the raw error data, but it's hard to see the bigger patterns unless you know exactly where to look.
Honeycomb's event-based telemetry model and its powerful query engine make it possible to slice your data across billions of rows and thousands of fields to find hidden patterns. The ability to quickly get results means teams can resolve incidents faster and figure out where to make system optimizations.
Teams using Honeycomb ship faster, have faster MTTR, happier customers and less alert fatigue and burnout.
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Highlights
- Faster Incident Response. Quickly locate sources of problems across complex applications. Use distributed tracing to find issues buried deeply within your stack.
- Treat Performance Like a Feature. Slow is the new down. Honeycomb is designed to help teams make smart investments in optimizing performance for better user experiences.
- Release Features Faster. Unknown unknowns in production make teams fear deploying. Honeycomb helps you understand production in ways that others simply chalk up as unknowable. With Honeycomb you ship more features faster, with fewer failures.
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Dimension | Description | Cost/12 months |
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Honeycomb | Honeycomb AWS Marketplace Public Listing | $50,000.00 |
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Easy to use and the dashboard is very intuitive
What is our primary use case?
The solution is mainly used for stack observability. It observes service behavior or any kind of failure that may be happening. The tool is also related to research. My company is working more on this, but I have been working on my SLOs and defining SLOs for the last seven months.
What is most valuable?
The solution's most valuable features are the queries for the OpenTelemetry events and all the tracing. The solution is very easy to use, and the dashboard is very intuitive.
What needs improvement?
We faced some OpenTelemetry metrics lost between the communication from the service and the Honeycomb.io. I can't say if this is a Honeycomb.io issue or if there are some limitations in OpenTelemetry.
Alerts are very helpful in Honeycomb.io, but we don't usually merge because we can compare queries with queries for making alerts. We can make alerts based on static numbers, which may block us from building alerts that could be generic enough or could be serviced.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Honeycomb.io for two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We’ve never had any issues with the solution’s stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Honeycomb.io is a scalable solution. The service is very resilient and can handle a lot of data. The quantity of data Honeycomb.io can parse and use to create charts is really good. More than 100 users are using the solution in our tech team.
I rate the solution’s scalability an eight or nine out of ten.
How was the initial setup?
The solution's initial setup is easy. I think the hardest part is to understand OpenTelemetry in general.
What other advice do I have?
We set up Honeycomb.io on all the services so that we can have all the set traces of the communication between all the services inside the company. This helps us understand where it could be failing, which in turn helps with failures and observability.
When we are not thinking about one specific failure but a major one, we can create queries for statistics views like the P99 or P95 behaviors. That's very helpful. I would recommend the solution to other users because it is very helpful.
Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
Honeycomb is a great and much cheaper alternative to Datadog
- Distributed tracing works fairly well
- The SDKs follow open telemetry conventions
- The SDKs could be better
- Documentation is undiscoverable
- Measuring database query performance