Honeybadger vs Opbeat: What are the differences?

Honeybadger: Honeybadger is the modern error management service for rails. Honeybadger does more than report errors, it helps you work with your team to fix them. Errors can be assigned. You can comment via email. And a fine-grained permissions system means you control who has access to each specific project; Opbeat: Application monitoring for developers. Opbeat is application monitoring for developers, and gives you performance metrics, error logging, release tracking and workflow in one smart product.

Honeybadger and Opbeat can be categorized as "Exception Monitoring" tools.

Some of the features offered by Honeybadger are:

• Collaboration tools for your team
• A blazing-fast error drill-down UI
• Tons of notification options

On the other hand, Opbeat provides the following key features:

• Application performance metrics
• Error logging with smart grouping
• Code integration - stacktraces annotated with code authors for faster debugging and coordination

"Rails integration" is the top reason why over 7 developers like Honeybadger, while over 23 developers mention "Free for small teams" as the leading cause for choosing Opbeat.