Honeybadger vs Raygun Application Performance Monitoring

Honeybadger combines error tracking, structured logging, application performance monitoring, uptime checks, cron monitoring and status pages for production web apps. Error tracking sends real-time alerts, groups related errors, supports advanced search and includes event context. Honeybadger Insights lets teams query structured logs and trace events across requests, jobs and services. Uptime monitoring checks websites and services, while cron monitoring alerts when scheduled work fails or misses a check-in. Listed integrations include Slack, GitHub, PagerDuty, Jira and Datadog, among more than 30 tools. Supported error-monitoring languages include Ruby, JavaScript, Node, Go, Elixir, Python and PHP. The free Developer plan includes 5,000 errors per month, one uptime monitor, one status page, one user and 15 days of retention. Team costs $26 a month; Business costs $80 a month. New accounts receive a 30-day trial without a credit card.

Raygun Application Performance Monitoring (APM) monitors server-side performance and provides trend data, real-time performance information, and user-experience data. Request traces can be examined by method, request, query, and external API call, while expandable visual views help inspect asynchronous threads. Raygun can display source code from GitHub, Bitbucket, or Azure Repos. Its issue engine prioritizes performance issues and can send proactive notifications; sampling and code filtering help control noise and overhead costs. The cloud service supports transaction tracing, real user monitoring, Core Web Vitals, mobile app monitoring, interaction tracking, geographic breakdown, and error correlation, with data retention of 90+ days. APM documentation lists integrations for GitHub, Jira, PagerDuty, and Slack. Compatible environments include Node.js, Ruby, .NET, .NET Core, and Azure App Service; agent installation options are available for Windows and Linux. Raygun describes APM for customer-centric teams seeking improvements that affect end-user experience. The pricing note lists From $80/mo (annual), and a 14-day trial is available.