Datadog is a great enterprise APM tool but it's suboptimal for error tracking. That's where Honeybadger comes in!
Datadog was built for enterprise operations and IT teams – not for developers building and maintaining web apps in production. That's why Datadog's interface is so overwhelming and its error tracking is so, well, underwhelming.
When developers add Honeybadger to their Datadog environment via our native integration, they can view all their error events and metrics inside Datadog!
Best of all, Honeybadger is surprisingly affordable within the context of your Datadog investment.
Honeybadger sends alerts to Datadog's cloud monitoring event stream
Datadog's error tracking is buried in a sprawling enterprise platform with dozens of other features. Developers prefer Honeybadger's error tracking, with real-time alerts, smart de-duping, and context-rich events from your logs.
Honeybadger filters out framework noise to show exactly where your code broke.
Datadog monitors everything and alerts everyone. Honeybadger alerts developers immediately and intelligently groups similar errors together to cut down on noise.
See each error's type, location, and frequency at a glance. Triage in bulk with one-click resolution and auto-resolve on deploy.
Because it was built for operations and IT, Datadog focuses on infrastructure health. Honeybadger is focused on the experience of individual end users – even tracking which user encountered an error so it's easier for support to contact them.
Honeybadger automatically tracks affected users and lets you jump directly to your admin or support tool.
Datadog is a powerful enterprise application monitoring platform, but it's loaded with features that are irrelevant for devs building and supporting apps in production.
If you're looking for a lightweight Datadog alternative, our APM Dashboards track the essentials automatically — response times, slow queries, background job performance — and are easy to extend and customize. Piece of cake.
Don't worry though. If your company is already using Datadog for APM, you can import and sync all your Honeybadger error tracking data via our Datadog integration.
Datadog wasn't built to support your workflows. No wonder so many enterprise developers seek out an error tracking alternative to Datadog.
Honeybadger's UX supports quick dashboard switching, one-click favorites, shareable links, inline documentation, and so much more. We obsess over these details because we know you need to move fast, especially when it matters most.
Within the context of your Datadog investment, Honeybadger is incredibly affordable.
In fact, since Datadog error tracking depends on host-billed APM and logs, your company may actually save money because Honeybadger bills purely on error volume with unlimited hosts. Book a demo to calculate your savings!
$286 when paid annually
$880 when paid annually
We pride ourselves on giving our customers the best developer-led support in the industry. Go ahead and email us right now—you'll get a fast reply from our dev team, and we'll go above and beyond to answer your questions.
Ben Curtis
To: Jason Charnes
Subject: Re: Uploading logs
Happy to help! And thanks for letting me know it (mostly) worked. I guess I have some debugging to do on that environment variable. :)
One last thing... make sure you run this to get Vector to start after a reboot:
sudo systemctl enable vector.service
I put that in the gist after I sent the last email to you, so you may have done that already, but you may not have, and it doesn't hurt to do it twice. :)
Oh, and about the log prefix you mentioned... look in config/environments/production.rb for config.log_tags and comment that out. That's probably what's adding that stuff to your logs.
Jason Charnes
To: Honeybadger Support
Subject: Re: Uploading logs
That did the trick!!
This is so awesome. Again, thank you!
"The fact that I can, within maybe 30 minutes, get an answer to a support question from someone who's actually working on the product and in many cases one of the cofounders of the company, is straight up ridiculous."
Don't take our word for it. Here's what developers had to say about switching to Honeybadger:
"One weekend we sent them 100,000 errors and just got a polite email from them. Class act."
"Testing out the new Insights feature and it's honestly pretty great. It's like Splunk without having to use Splunk. I love lightweight observability tooling."
"Honeybadger fits me better. It's a simpler product, obvious how to use, and aimed at small companies who care for each customer."
"This is my second project I've implemented Honeybadger in (it really saved my butt with the first one). Going forward I'll be using Honeybadger for all my projects!"
"Honeybadger is the only service that doesn't look scary like I'm in the cockpit of an airplane."
"I love when I get a HB email, push a quick fix, and then get to email the person who hit the bug."
"I set up Honeybadger for my app yesterday in like 2 minutes, and having prod errors appear on my phone within seconds is AWESOME! I love this service so far."
"Honeybadger was super simple to integrate with, really solid experience and got errors flowing through from production already."
"I particularly admire the design of BadgerQL and appreciate the comprehensive uptime monitoring. Thank you for providing such an excellent tool."
World-class APM plus world-class error tracking. Book a demo to learn how to find and fix errors faster with Honeybadger.