Honeybadger vs RootCause
Honeybadger
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| Figure | Honeybadger | RootCause |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $26/mo | $99/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 3 | 3 |
| Spec score · Error Monitoring Software | 8.0 (#12) | 7.7 (#21) |
| Founded | 2012 | 2009 |
| Integrations | The maker lists integrations including Slack, GitHub, PagerDuty, Jira, Datadog, and more than 30 other tools. | The feature tour lists Jira, GitHub, and Slack integrations, with email or Slack notifications for errors. |
| Support | The maker says customers can email its developer-led support team and receive a fast reply from the team that builds the product. | Commercial plans include community forum support; Startup and Business list Premium Support, while Enterprise lists Email Support. |
Plans
RootCause
- Startup$99 a month
- Business (on-premises)$199 a month
- Enterprise (on-premises)$699 a month
In their own words
Honeybadger
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.
RootCause
RootCause has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.