# Honeycomb vs SigNoz

| Attribute | Honeycomb | SigNoz |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 59.4 (72% (medium)) | 57.9 (54% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 0 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 32,361 |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A unified observability platform that combines traces, logs, and metrics in one view for rapid production debugging. Built with OpenTelemetry support and high-cardinality telemetry analysis, it helps teams investigate issues across distributed systems and AI agents without paying extra costs as data volume grows. It is indexed under Distributed Tracing Tools.","source":"https://www.honeycomb.io","question":"What is Honeycomb?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Honeycomb offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $0.10. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.honeycomb.io/pricing","question":"Is Honeycomb free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Honeycomb supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.honeycomb.io/pricing","question":"What platforms does Honeycomb support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Honeycomb, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://www.honeycomb.io","question":"Can Honeycomb be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 26 integrations for Honeycomb, including Anthropic Claude, OpenTelemetry, Google Analytics, Slack, Microsoft Teams, AWS PrivateLink, Jaeger and Zipkin, plus 18 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.honeycomb.io","question":"What does Honeycomb integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 and GDPR for Honeycomb. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Honeycomb not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.honeycomb.io","question":"What security certifications does Honeycomb have?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Honeycomb is available worldwide. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.","source":"https://www.honeycomb.io/pricing","question":"Where is Honeycomb available?","confidence":0.75}]` | `[{"answer":"A monitoring and observability tool that aggregates traces, metrics, logs, and dashboards into one interface. Supports self-hosted deployment or cloud operation, built on the OpenTelemetry standard. It is indexed under Distributed Tracing Tools.","source":"https://signoz.io/blog/datadog-pricing/","question":"What is SigNoz?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"SigNoz offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans are also available: Open Source and Cloud. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://signoz.io/blog/datadog-pricing/","question":"Is SigNoz free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to SigNoz. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://signoz.io/blog/datadog-pricing/","question":"What platforms does SigNoz support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. SigNoz can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://signoz.io/blog/datadog-pricing/","question":"Can SigNoz be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 16 integrations for SigNoz, including Apache, HAProxy, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, Open WebUI, DSPy, HCP Vault and OpenTelemetry eBPF, plus 8 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://signoz.io/blog/datadog-pricing/","question":"What does SigNoz integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 and HIPAA for SigNoz. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as SigNoz not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://signoz.io","question":"What security certifications does SigNoz have?","confidence":0.48},{"answer":"SigNoz is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://signoz.io/blog/datadog-pricing/","question":"Where is SigNoz available?","confidence":0.5}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | Centralized platform for storing and querying observability data from production systems and AI applications, designed to help teams rapidly troubleshoot issues through integrated logs, metrics, and traces. | Open-source observability platform that brings together application telemetry—logs, metrics, and distributed traces—in a single interface, built natively around OpenTelemetry instrumentation. Available as a managed cloud service or self-deployed within your own infrastructure. |
| features.capabilities | `{"hosting":"both","trace_role":"backend","service_map":true,"otel_support":"native","trace_search":true,"tail_sampling":false,"multi_protocol":true,"storage_backend":"columnar data store","high_cardinality":true,"metrics_correlation":true}` | `{"hosting":"both","trace_role":"platform","service_map":true,"otel_support":"native","trace_search":true,"storage_backend":"Columnar database","metrics_correlation":true,"auto_instrumentation":"agent"}` |
| integrations.count | 19 | 500 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Anthropic Claude"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry"},{"name":"Google Analytics"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"AWS PrivateLink"},{"name":"Jaeger"},{"name":"Zipkin"},{"name":"OTLP"},{"name":"Cursor"},{"name":"Claude Code"},{"name":"Amazon Bedrock AgentCore"},{"name":"MySQL"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"ServiceNow"},{"name":"GitHub Actions Honeymarker"},{"name":"AWS Secrets Manager"},{"name":"AWS CloudFront"},{"name":"AWS CloudWatch"},{"name":"Amazon Timestream"},{"name":"Tracetest"},{"name":"Amazon Kinesis"},{"name":"AWS CloudHSM"},{"name":"Fluentd"},{"name":"Terraform"},{"name":"Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service"}]` | `[{"name":"Apache"},{"name":"HAProxy"},{"name":"Elasticsearch"},{"name":"RabbitMQ"},{"name":"Open WebUI"},{"name":"DSPy"},{"name":"HCP Vault"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry eBPF"},{"name":"Langflow"},{"name":"Cohere"},{"name":"Auth0"},{"name":"PgBouncer"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"Git"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"Google Chat"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"Opsgenie"},{"name":"MS Teams"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry Collector"},{"name":"AWS CloudWatch"},{"name":"incident.io","native":true,"category":"incident management","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry","native":true,"direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Prometheus","native":true,"direction":"inbound"}]` |
| language.primary | - | TypeScript |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"Free forever, up to 20M events/month","features":["Distributed Tracing","2 Triggers","BubbleUp","OpenTelemetry Support","Team Query History","Query Result Permalinks","Honeycomb Metrics","Canvas AI Copilot","Honeycomb MCP","Agent Timeline"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Testing and individual projects","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"events":"20M/month","metrics_data_points":"100M/month"}},{"free":false,"name":"Pro","summary":"Starting at $150/month, flexible event volume","features":["All Free features","100 Triggers","2 Service Level Objectives (SLOs)","Single-Sign On (SSO)","Honeycomb Support"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":150,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"gb"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.1,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Teams with production applications","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"events":"750M/month","metrics_data_points":"3.75B/month"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom volume discounts, enterprise support","features":["All Pro features","300+ Triggers","100+ Service Level Objectives (SLOs)","Service Map","Enterprise Support for Refinery","Enterprise-Grade Support + Onboarding","Query Data API","AWS PrivateLink","SLO Reporting API","Honeycomb Private Cloud support"],"commitment":"annual","description":"Multi-team and large-scale applications","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"events":"Variable","metrics_data_points":"Variable"}}],"addOns":[{"name":"Frontend performance analysis"},{"name":"Enterprise-grade alerting"},{"name":"Installation and enablement services"}],"summary":"From $150/month (Pro). Unlimited seats and queries. Free tier available.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.honeycomb.io/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T15:29:52.948Z","startingPrice":{"amount":0.1,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"SigNoz Cloud","summary":"From $49/month, usage-based pricing with 30-day free trial","features":["logs","metrics","traces","alerts","dashboards","exceptions","infrastructure monitoring"],"description":"Fully managed cloud deployment","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise Cloud","features":["SOC 2 Type II","HIPAA compliance","RBAC","ingestion controls","custom retention","data residency","region selection","support"],"contactSales":true},{"free":false,"name":"BYOC","features":["SOC 2 Type II","HIPAA compliance","RBAC","ingestion controls","custom retention","data residency"],"contactSales":true},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise Self-Hosted","features":["SOC 2 Type II","HIPAA compliance","RBAC","ingestion controls","custom retention","support"],"contactSales":true},{"free":true,"name":"Open-Source Self-Hosted","description":"Community edition, fully open-source","contactSales":false}],"summary":"Usage-based cloud pricing from $49/month with 30-day free trial; free open-source self-hosted option.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://signoz.io/blog/datadog-pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-10-15T20:22:58.436Z","freeTrialDays":30,"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | low |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | - | 5 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.146.0","date":"2026-10-14T06:42:10Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.146.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.145.0","date":"2026-10-05T06:41:26Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.145.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.144.0","date":"2026-09-29T06:34:48Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.144.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.143.0","date":"2026-09-23T07:27:00Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.143.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.142.1","date":"2026-09-17T14:55:14Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.142.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.142.0","date":"2026-09-16T06:40:02Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.142.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.141.1","date":"2026-09-09T13:02:37Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.141.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.141.0","date":"2026-09-09T06:43:45Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.141.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.140.0","date":"2026-09-02T07:13:56Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.140.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.139.0","date":"2026-08-26T06:42:53Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.139.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.138.0","date":"2026-08-19T06:39:10Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.138.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.137.1","date":"2026-08-14T19:40:32Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.137.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.137.0","date":"2026-08-12T08:57:11Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.137.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.136.1","date":"2026-08-05T19:38:33Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.136.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.136.0","date":"2026-08-05T07:28:23Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.136.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.135.1","date":"2026-07-31T07:39:12Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.135.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.135.0","date":"2026-07-29T17:04:08Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.135.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.134.0","date":"2026-07-22T13:23:58Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.134.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.133.0","date":"2026-07-15T06:34:41Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.133.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/releases/tag/v0.132.2","date":"2026-07-10T13:11:10Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.132.2"}]` |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","status":"active"}]` | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active"}]` |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fsignoz%2Fsignoz&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Distributed Tracing Tools)

| Capability | Honeycomb | SigNoz |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Trace role | Trace backend / store | SaaS platform |
| **Standards** |  |  |
| OpenTelemetry support | OTel-native | OTel-native |
| Multi-protocol (Jaeger + Zipkin + OTLP) | ✓ | - |
| **Query** |  |  |
| Trace search / filter by attributes | ✓ | ✓ |
| Service dependency graph | ✓ | ✓ |
| High-cardinality attribute exploration | ✓ | - |
| **Sampling** |  |  |
| Tail-based / dynamic sampling | ✗ | - |
| **Instrumentation** |  |  |
| Auto-instrumentation | - | Agent-based |
| **Correlation** |  |  |
| Correlate traces with metrics/logs | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud + self-hosted | Cloud + self-hosted |
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| Storage backend | columnar data store | Columnar database |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T19:06:08.006Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*