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Error tracking, logging, uptime and status pages · by Honeybadger Industries

Honeybadger

Bootstrapped all-in-one monitor for web apps: error tracking, logs and light APM, uptime and cron checks, and status pages, with a free solo plan and flat team pricing.

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Overview

Honeybadger is a small, bootstrapped company that has run an error tracker since 2012. It groups exceptions, filters framework noise, and adds deploy tracking, user feedback forms and flexible alert routing. Honeybadger Insights adds structured logs and events you can query, turn into metrics and chart on automatic dashboards for web, worker and database performance.

Uptime checks run from multiple locations, heartbeat monitoring watches cron jobs and background tasks, and a status page updates automatically when a check fails, so one tool covers errors, logs, uptime and customer communication.

The free Developer plan is for one person and is enough for a side project or a small production app. Team, at $26 a month, adds unlimited users, ten times the error quota and 90-day error retention. Business adds security and compliance features and priority support.

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Pricing and plans

Free tier · no card

Developer plan: 1 user, 5,000 errors a month, 50 MB/day of logs and events, 1 uptime monitor, 1 status page, unlimited projects; errors kept 15 days, logs 7 days.

At the limit Slows down Over quota, each project is limited to one error a minute, with a hard cutoff at 125%; overage billing is opt-in.

Plan Price What you get
Developer $0 1 user, 5k errors/mo, 50 MB/day logs, 1 uptime monitor, 1 status page
Team $26/mo ($286/yr annual) Unlimited users, 50k errors/mo, 100 MB/day logs, 5 uptime monitors, 90-day error retention
Business $80/mo ($880/yr annual) Adds enterprise security and compliance features, unlimited teams, 180-day error retention, priority support

New accounts start on a 30-day Team trial with no card, then choose a paid plan or drop to the free Developer plan. Log retention on Team and Business is 'up to' 30 and 60 days depending on volume. Higher usage thresholds are available beyond the listed quotas. No EU data region or specific certifications were stated on the pages read.

Source: www.honeybadger.io/plans/ · prices as published, excluding tax.

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What it does

Error tracking
Smart de-duplication, custom metadata, user feedback forms and deploy tracking with GitHub commits.
Insights logging
Structured logs and events you can query, alert on and turn into metrics.
Just Enough APM
Automatic dashboards for web, worker and query performance in popular frameworks.
Uptime and check-ins
Uptime monitors from multiple locations and heartbeat checks for cron jobs.
Status pages
Branded status page on your domain that updates automatically on failures.
Alert routing
Route alerts by environment, host or exception class, with rate-based escalation.
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Strengths and limitations

Strengths

  • Errors, logs, uptime, cron checks and a status page in one flat-priced plan.
  • Free plan suits solo developers with 5,000 errors a month.
  • Strong support for Ruby on Rails, Laravel, Elixir and Python frameworks.
  • Unlimited users and projects from the Team plan.

Limitations

  • Free plan is limited to 1 user, 1 uptime monitor and 15-day error retention.
  • Every plan includes just 1 status page.
  • Log volume is capped per day (50 MB free, 100 MB on paid plans) before higher thresholds.
  • No mention of an EU data region on its pricing page.
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Who it suits

Good for

  • Rails, Laravel, Phoenix and Django apps
  • Solo developers and small teams wanting one tool for errors and uptime
  • Teams that dislike usage-based surprise bills

Look elsewhere if

  • Large microservice estates needing full distributed tracing
  • Teams requiring EU data residency
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Alternatives to Honeybadger

Tool From Free option Stages
Sentry Error tracking and application monitoring
$26/mo Free tier
Axiom Log and event data platform
$25/mo Free tier
Checkly Synthetic and uptime monitoring as code
$24/mo Free tier
Hyperping Uptime monitoring, status pages and on-call
$24/mo Free tier
Better Stack Uptime, logs, errors and incident management
$29/mo Free tier
AppSignal APM with errors, logs, hosts and uptime
$23.25/mo Free tier

All monitoring, uptime and error tracking →

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Questions

Is Honeybadger free?

Yes, the Developer plan is free for one user with 5,000 errors a month, one uptime monitor and one status page.

How much does Honeybadger Team cost?

$26 a month, or $286 a year on annual billing, with unlimited users and 50,000 errors a month.

Does Honeybadger do uptime monitoring?

Yes, it includes uptime monitors, cron heartbeat checks and a status page on every plan.

What frameworks does Honeybadger support?

It has installers for Rails, Laravel, Phoenix, Django and other web frameworks.

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