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Honeycomb vs Prometheus

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HoneycombMonitoring & Observability
From $150 / moPublished price
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PrometheusMonitoring & Observability
Free (open source)Published price

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Honeycomb
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Prometheus
Overview
TaglineObservability built around debugging real production systems.Monitoring system and time series database.
DescriptionHoneycomb is an observability platform focused on high-cardinality analysis, distributed tracing, and faster debugging for complex production systems.Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit that collects metrics via a pull model and stores them in a time-series database.
CategoryMonitoring & ObservabilityMonitoring & Observability
Pricing
Published priceFrom $150 / moFree (open source)
Company
Founded20162012
Team size201-500 employees1-10 employees
HeadquartersSan Francisco, CARemote (CNCF)
Featured clientsNot availableSoundCloud, DigitalOcean, CoreOS

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. Prometheus states a range rather than a single yearly figure, so it is not marked here.

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