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Honeycomb vs Librato: What are the differences?
What is Honeycomb? Observability for a distributed world--designed for high cardinality data and collaborative problem solving ππ. We built Honeycomb to answer the hard questions that come up when you're trying to operate your softwareβto debug microservices, serverless, distributed systems, polyglot persistence, containers, and a world of fast, parallel deploys.
What is Librato? Real-Time Cloud Monitoring. Librato provides a complete solution for monitoring and understanding the metrics that impact your business at all levels of the stack. We provide everything you need to visualize, analyze, and actively alert on the metrics that matter to you.
Honeycomb and Librato can be primarily classified as "Performance Monitoring" tools.
Some of the features offered by Honeycomb are:
- High-performance querying against high-cardinality or sparse events.
- Accepts any structured JSON objects with a write key.
- Submit events via API.
On the other hand, Librato provides the following key features:
- REST API accepts any metrics you define
- Turnkey integration with AWS, Heroku, collectd, and more
- Integrates with more than 100 open-source agents, and language bindings
Pros of Honeycomb
- Powerful UI2
- High-Cardinality Data2
- BubbleUp + Heat maps2
- Better Value1
Pros of Librato
- Easy setup14
- Great visualization8
- Heroku integration4
- Free tier3
- Alerting2