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Honeycomb vs Scout: What are the differences?
What is Honeycomb? Observability for a distributed world--designed for high cardinality data and collaborative problem solving 🐝💖. 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 Scout? Application Monitoring that Developers Love. Scout is application monitoring that points developers right to the source of problems: N+1 database queries, memory bloat, performance trends, and more Scout eliminates much of the investigation part when performance woes occur. .
Honeycomb and Scout 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, Scout provides the following key features:
- Monitors Ruby & Elixir apps with more languages to come
- Easy install
- Detailed transaction traces
Pros of Honeycomb
- Powerful UI2
- High-Cardinality Data2
- BubbleUp + Heat maps2
- Better Value1
Pros of Scout
- Easy setup8
- Plugins5
- Affordable3
- Custom Scopes1
- GIT Integration1
- Local Developer Tracing1
- Profiles Ruby Memory Usage1
- Heroku Integration1