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Honeybadger

Honeybadger is an application monitoring service for error tracking, uptime and cron monitoring and logs, with a free Developer plan and Team from $26 a month.

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Introduction

Honeybadger combines error tracking, uptime monitoring, cron and heartbeat monitoring, and logging/observability (Insights) in one service aimed at small and mid-sized development teams.

Features

  1. Error tracking: Exceptions with context.
  2. Uptime monitoring: External checks.
  3. Check-ins: Cron and heartbeat monitoring.
  4. Insights: Logs and events querying.
  5. Status pages: Public status pages.

Pros

Cons

  1. Smaller ecosystem: Fewer integrations than larger vendors.
  2. SaaS only: No self-hosting.

Install the Honeybadger gem or SDK, set the API key and deploy; add uptime checks and check-ins from the dashboard.

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Pricing

From Honeybadger’s pricing page: Developer $0, Team $26 a month, Business $80 a month.

  1. Small development teams wanting errors and uptime together.
  2. Rails, Elixir, PHP and JS teams.
  3. Not a fit for large-scale APM.

Conclusion

Honeybadger bundles errors, uptime and cron monitoring for small teams.

Alternatives

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