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Honeycomb vs Hubble

Honeycomb

honeycomb.io

Hubble

cilium.io

Side by side

FigureHoneycombHubble
Price from$150/moFree
Free planYesYes
Free trialYes—
Open source——
WebYesYes
Windows—Yes
macOS—Yes
Linux—Yes
iOSYes—
AndroidYes—
APIYesYes
Self-hostedYesYes
Plans published31
Spec score · Distributed Tracing Tools8.6 (#3)7.8 (#16)
IntegrationsThe integration directory lists technologies including AWS, OpenTelemetry, Slack, MySQL, Prometheus, ServiceNow, and GitHub Actions.Cilium documentation describes metrics and alerting integration with Prometheus, Grafana, and other monitoring systems.

Plans

Honeycomb

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

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Hubble

  • HubbleFree

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In their own words

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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Hubble

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