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Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights vs Honeycomb

Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights

aws.amazon.com

Honeycomb

honeycomb.io

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FigureAmazon CloudWatch Container InsightsHoneycomb
Price from$0.08/mo$150/mo
Free plan—Yes
Free trial—Yes
Open source——
WebYesYes
iOS—Yes
Android—Yes
API—Yes
Self-hosted—Yes
Plans published43
Spec score · Kubernetes Monitoring6.9 (#45)8.6 (#8)
Founded20062016

Plans

Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights

  • Container Insights with OpenTelemetry for EKS$0.08 a month
  • Container Insights with Enhanced Observability for EKSPriced on request
  • Container Insights with Enhanced Observability for ECSPriced on request
  • Container Insights without Enhanced ObservabilityPriced on request

Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights pricing →

Honeycomb

  • FreeFree
  • Pro$150 a month
  • EnterprisePriced on request

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Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights

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Honeycomb

Honeycomb is an observability platform for debugging systems, application code, and databases with structured telemetry. It supports distributed tracing, logs, metrics, and OpenTelemetry data sent over gRPC, HTTP/protobuf, or HTTP/JSON. Canvas combines AI-assisted investigations with natural-language queries, interactive exploration, and shared workspaces. Agent Timeline presents LLM calls, tool invocations, handoffs, and downstream system spans in event order. BubbleUp helps investigate outliers across traces, metrics, and logs. Listed integrations include AWS, OpenTelemetry, Slack, MySQL, Prometheus, ServiceNow, and GitHub Actions. The free plan allows up to 20M events and 100M metrics data points per month, with two triggers. Pro starts at $150/mo, with allowances of up to 750M events, 3.75B metrics data points, 100 triggers, and two SLOs. Enterprise has variable volumes and custom pricing. Honeycomb describes Free for individual projects, Pro for production teams, and Enterprise for multi-team or large-scale applications.

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