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Honeycomb vs OpenMetrics

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HoneycombMonitoring & Observability
From $150 / moPublished price
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OpenMetricsMonitoring & Observability
FreePublished price
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Honeycomb
Monitoring & Observability

Observability built around debugging real production systems.

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OpenMetrics
Monitoring & Observability

Creating a standard for exposing metrics data

Overview
CategoryMonitoring & ObservabilityMonitoring & Observability
What it isHoneycomb is an observability platform focused on high-cardinality analysis, distributed tracing, and faster debugging for complex production systems.Evolving standard for transmitting cloud-native metrics at scale based on the Prometheus exposition format.
Pricing
Published priceFrom $150 / mo
Vendor pricing: Free plan up to 20M events/mo (and 100M metrics data points). Pro starts at $150/mo, scaling by event volume up to 750M events/mo (and 3.75B metrics points). Enter…
Free
OpenMetrics does not publish a verifiable numeric rate on its current public product or pricing pages. Pricing is handled through sales, a quote, variable usage, or a free/open-so…
Pricing modelTiered plansNot available
Free optionsFree plan · Free trialFree plan · No free trial
Deal on CubbieNone right nowNone right now
Company
Founded20162019
Team size201-500 employees1-10 employees
HeadquartersSan Francisco, CARemote

Where these sit in Monitoring & Observability

  • Honeycomb$1,800
  • Monitoring & Observability median$858

Per seat, per year, across 14 products publishing a price. Half of Monitoring & Observability sits between $375 and $1,710, and 33% of its plans are priced on request. OpenMetrics states a range rather than a single yearly figure, so it is not marked here.

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