Best Honeycomb alternatives

Observability platform with AI-assisted production investigation.

Last updated November 13, 2026

Top Honeycomb alternatives on usedby: CircleCI, New Relic, and Sentry. Honeycomb has 30 public customers on usedby. 10 other tools of the same or a competing category, from other vendors, have public customers.Latest check Nov 13, 2026: 476 of 477 public lines checked. Every public proof counts as a customer, from case studies to job posts. The proof level stays visible: confirmed (a case study, a press release), observed (the vendor’s customer page), signal (a job post, the weakest proof).

Ranked by public customers

Tools of the same or a competing category, from another vendor. Open a row for its customers, sources and facts; shared customers never set the order.

1CircleCI87customers
87 customers: 66 confirmed, 20 observed.
Customers include Eventbrite, Axios, and Greenhouse.
1 company is listed on both CircleCI and Honeycomb.
Pricing: free plan and paid tiers. Source Free trial or free plan available. Source
Latest capture across its sources: Nov 13, 2026.
Who uses CircleCI Compare Honeycomb and CircleCI
2New Relic79customers
79 customers: 58 confirmed, 19 observed.
Customers include Verizon, Chegg, and Morningstar.
1 company is listed on both New Relic and Honeycomb.
Free trial or free plan available. Source
Latest capture across its sources: Nov 13, 2026.
Who uses New Relic Compare Honeycomb and New Relic
With New Relic, we can bring together, in the same dashboard, all the metrics from the different apps.
Guillaume Cavana, CTO, Turo. Source
3Sentry61customers
61 customers: 47 confirmed, 9 observed.
Customers include Atlassian, Reddit, and Anthropic.
1 company is listed on both Sentry and Honeycomb.
Free trial or free plan available. Source
Latest capture across its sources: Nov 13, 2026.
Who uses Sentry Compare Honeycomb and Sentry
We have an always-on business that other organizations rely on, there’s no room for downtime and Sentry has become an essential business driver for us in this sense.
Rich, Arcade. Source
4Datadog60customers
60 customers: 10 confirmed, 42 observed.
Customers include Toyota, PayPal, and AppFolio.
No company is listed on both Datadog and Honeycomb yet.
Pricing: published paid tiers. Source Free trial or free plan available. Source
Latest capture across its sources: Nov 13, 2026.
Who uses Datadog
Bits AI gives us business and technical visibility at a much higher level and in dramatically less time. It helps us connect the data, identify root causes, and give our engineers accurate direction within minutes.
Rodrigo Andriolo, Executive IT Manager, Bullla. Source
5incident.ioIncident management platform with on-call, status pages and AI agents that investigate root causes.49customers
49 customers: 34 confirmed, 15 observed.
Customers include Netflix, Etsy, and Buffer.
1 company is listed on both incident.io and Honeycomb.
Pricing: free plan and paid tiers. Source Free trial or free plan available. Source
Source: incident.io, latest capture Nov 11, 2026.
Who uses incident.io Compare Honeycomb and incident.io
We brought in incident.io for roughly what we were paying for PagerDuty. Except now we had the full incident management lifecycle. That was the big ROI.
Paul Bowden, Director of Engineering, Built. Source
6HarnessAI software delivery platform with agents for CI/CD pipelines, security testing, runtime protection and cloud cost.45customers
45 customers: 37 confirmed, 7 observed, 1 job-post signal.
Customers include Experian, Twilio, and Morningstar.
No company is listed on both Harness and Honeycomb yet.
Free trial or free plan available. Source
Source: harness.io, latest capture Nov 11, 2026.
Who uses Harness
One of the big selling points of Harness is the fact that we can implement templates that allow us to offer the developer a fully compliant, fully validated, robust set of processes that the teams can just use. They can focus on delivering software and features to our customers.
Kyle Binns, Senior Manager of SRE, Morningstar, Morningstar. Source
7ResolveAI IT support platform for faster incident resolution24customers
24 customers: 6 confirmed, 18 observed.
Customers include Salesforce, Coinbase, and Doordash.
No company is listed on both Resolve and Honeycomb yet.
Source: resolve.ai, latest capture Nov 13, 2026.
Who uses Resolve
ResolveAI allowed us to move from hours to minutes for investigations in many incidents. We pull fewer engineers into war rooms, on-call is materially better, and that translates directly to advertiser trust and revenue protection for a billion-dollar ads business.
Shahrooz Ansari, Sr. Director of Engineering, Doordash. Source
8BigPandaAgentic AI for IT operations that correlates alerts, finds root cause and automates incident triage.21customers
21 customers: 9 confirmed, 12 observed.
Customers include Autodesk, Bungie, and Cambia Health Solutions.
No company is listed on both BigPanda and Honeycomb yet.
Source: bigpanda.io, latest capture Nov 8, 2026.
Who uses BigPanda
Integrating BigPanda’s [Alert Intelligence] into our NOC has drastically reduced our reliance on manual monitoring.
John Hamilton, Sr., Director of TechOps at Bungie, Bungie. Source
9PagerDuty11customers
11 customers: 8 confirmed, 2 observed.
Customers include SAP, Spotify, and Vodafone.
No company is listed on both PagerDuty and Honeycomb yet.
Latest capture across its sources: Nov 13, 2026.
Who uses PagerDuty
Mean-time-to-action has dropped from multiple minutes to seconds.
Senior Engineering Manager, Cloudflare, Senior Engineering Manager, Cloudflare. Source
10TraversalAI SRE that triages alerts, finds root causes and helps prevent incidents across enterprise production systems.10customers
10 customers: 7 confirmed, 3 observed.
Customers include PepsiCo, DigitalOcean, and ClikIT.
1 company is listed on both Traversal and Honeycomb.
Source: traversal.com, latest capture Nov 12, 2026.
Who uses Traversal Compare Honeycomb and Traversal
We took real customer incidents that used to take our engineers an hour or more to resolve — and Traversal’s agents were identifying root causes in under a minute.
Bratin Saha, Ex. CTO & CPO, DigitalOcean, DigitalOcean. Source

With CircleCI, there’s so much information… but it’s easy to read and very accessible to any of our engineers.

Tarun Singh, Senior Software Engineer on Wave’s DevOps team, Wave. On CircleCI. Source

Honeycomb and its top alternatives, side by side

Public customers at every proof level, and what each vendor states on its own pages. “Not checked yet” means usedby has no verified value; the vendor may publish it.

Honeycomb and its top alternatives compared
Tool	Customers	Pricing	Free trial	Security
Honeycomb	30	Not checked yet	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
CircleCI	87	free plan and paid tiers Source	Yes Source	FedRAMP Tailored, SOC 2 Type II Source
New Relic	79	Not checked yet	Yes Source	Observability Platform on AWS, Azure and first-party infrastructure. Excludes Pixie Community Cloud and Pixie Auto-telemetry on GCP · SOC 2 Type II Source
Sentry	61	Not checked yet	Yes Source	SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 Source
Datadog	60	published paid tiers Source	Yes Source	ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018 and 5 more Source
incident.io	49	free plan and paid tiers Source	Yes Source	SOC 2 Type II Source

Best Honeycomb alternative by industry

In the industries where Honeycomb has the most customers, the alternative with the most customers of its own there (at least three).

DevTools & InfrastructureCircleCI10 customersHoneycomb: 4
Artificial IntelligenceDatadog11 customersHoneycomb: 2
Fintech & Paymentsincident.io7 customersHoneycomb: 2
Marketing TechSentry4 customersHoneycomb: 2

Often used with Honeycomb

Tools of other categories that Honeycomb customers also use. They do another job: they are not alternatives.

ClaudeAI assistants3 shared customers
FigmaDesign & UI/UX3 shared customers
GleanEnterprise search & knowledge3 shared customers
SnowflakeData platforms & analytics3 shared customers

Questions about Honeycomb alternatives

What are the best Honeycomb alternatives?

Ranked by their public customers on usedby: CircleCI (87 customers), New Relic (79 customers), and Sentry (61 customers). See who uses CircleCI.

Which Honeycomb alternatives offer a free trial?

CircleCI, New Relic, and Sentry offer a free trial or a free plan, according to their own pricing pages.

What is the best Honeycomb alternative for DevTools & Infrastructure companies?

CircleCI, with 10 customers in DevTools & Infrastructure on usedby. Honeycomb has 4 there. DevTools & Infrastructure companies on usedby.

What is the best Honeycomb alternative for Artificial Intelligence companies?

Datadog, with 11 customers in Artificial Intelligence on usedby. Honeycomb has 2 there. Artificial Intelligence companies on usedby.

Which tools are used with Honeycomb?

Companies that use Honeycomb also use Claude (3 shared), Figma (3 shared), Glean (3 shared), and Snowflake (3 shared). These tools do another job: they are not alternatives.

How does usedby rank Honeycomb alternatives?

Only tools of the same or a competing category, from another vendor, count. They are ranked by their public customers at every proof level, job posts included; a tie goes to the stronger proofs (more confirmed, then more observed). Each tool shows its mix: confirmed (a case study, a press release), observed (the vendor’s customer page), signal (a job post, the weakest proof). Shared customers are shown for information and never set the order. Tools of other categories that the same companies use are listed apart, as tools used with Honeycomb. usedby does not publish departures, so no company is shown switching from Honeycomb to another tool.