Don’t let complexity slow you down.
Honeycomb helps you solve complex problems in production, optimize service performance, and ship features reliably — faster than anyone else. We make it easy to debug issues and tame complexity for your distributed services with powerful tracing and analysis tools.
- Send application data instantly with OpenTelemetry, a vendor-neutral instrumentation library that gives you more flexibility and control
- Heatmap views and powerful analysis tools, like our BubbleUp, will locate sources of issues, all the way down to what individual users are experiencing
- Our unique approach to debuggable Service Level Objectives (SLOs) cuts down on alert noise, team burnout, and the stress of being on-call
- Use distributed tracing to find fast answers to elusive problems and deliver better software
- Spend less time fixing bugs and more time delighting users.
What Separates Honeycomb and Lightstep?
- Lightstep’s conditional alerts have workarounds for monitoring SLOs
- SLOs are the industry-leading way to create actionable alerts and reduce alert noise: you don’t get native SLOs with Lightstep.
- Honeycomb SLOs are first-class citizens, with support for error budget burn alerts and a unique ability to jump straight into debugging exactly why errors are happening.
- Lightstep querying and correlations only work across single dimensions
- Honeycomb lets you make multi-dimensional correlations to find deeply hidden issues
- Honeycomb lets you dig deeper, with complex analysis features that enable you to explore system dependencies in-depth: we help you successfully navigate and understand your system complexity, we don’t abstract it away from you with one-dimensional answers that are easy but incomplete.
- Lightstep pricing is complicated and has hidden costs
- Lightstep charges per service, per GB of storage, per key operation and stream: this pricing model discourages both wide adoption across your stack and capturing the rich debugging context you need with wide events, then it penalizes you for running the health checks you care about most
- You also need to factor in additional fees when using hosted Lightstep Microsatellites that involve a shared/public/rate-limited instance, costs of hosting your own, and risk of cost creep as Lightstep integrates the larger ServiceNow product ecosystem.
- Honeycomb has a simple and predictable pricing model based entirely on how many events you send us: you should be able to use your telemetry in unlimited ways, any way you see fit, with no surprises!
