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Request Metrics vs Honeycomb: What are the differences?

Request Metrics: Get simplified performance metrics and actionable alerts to make your website go fast. Website performance monitoring, simplified for small teams. It's not a expensive APM "solution" or a complex query language to learn. It is the key metrics you need to know to keep your website running fast and your customers happy; Honeycomb: Observability for a distributed world--designed for high cardinality data and collaborative problem solving πŸπŸ’–. We built Honeycomb to answer the hard questions that come up when you're trying to operate your software–to debug microservices, serverless, distributed systems, polyglot persistence, containers, and a world of fast, parallel deploys.

Request Metrics and Honeycomb can be categorized as "Performance Monitoring" tools.

Some of the features offered by Request Metrics are:

  • Real-user monitoring
  • Performance monitoring
  • Web vitals

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

  • High-performance querying against high-cardinality or sparse events.
  • Accepts any structured JSON objects with a write key.
  • Submit events via API.
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    What is Honeycomb?

    We built Honeycomb to answer the hard questions that come up when you're trying to operate your software–to debug microservices, serverless, distributed systems, polyglot persistence, containers, and a world of fast, parallel deploys.

    What is Request Metrics?

    Website performance monitoring, simplified for small teams. It's not a expensive APM "solution" or a complex query language to learn. It is the key metrics you need to know to keep your website running fast and your customers happy.

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