Monitoring & Observability · reliability comparison
Checkly vs Honeycomb: which is more reliable? (2026)
Checkly is more reliable than Honeycomb, scoring 91.1 vs 85.4 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Checkly reported 6 incidents and Honeycomb reported 5, with effective uptime of 99.96% and 99.86% respectively. Checkly resolves incidents faster on average (1h 54m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Checkly | Honeycomb |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 91.1 | 85.4 |
| Rank (monitoring & observability tools) | #4 | #6 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.96% | 99.86% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 6 | 5 |
| Partial / major outages | 0 | 3 |
| Avg time to resolve | 1h 54m | 2h 19m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Checkly and Honeycomb differ
- Checkly reported 20% more incidents than Honeycomb over the last 90 days (6 vs 5).
- Honeycomb had 3 partial or major outages, compared with 0 for Checkly.
- Checkly fixes problems faster: 1h 54m on average, against 2h 19m for Honeycomb.
- Checkly's longest incident on record lasted 3h 10m (Oct 7, 2026); Honeycomb's lasted 3d (Dec 5, 2025).
90-day uptime
Checkly
Honeycomb
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Checkly incidents
- Degraded performanceNov 1, 2026 · resolved in 1h 40m
- Degraded performanceOct 7, 2026 · resolved in 3h 10m
- Degraded performanceOct 5, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Degraded performanceSep 23, 2026 · resolved in 53m
Performance Degradation for Playwright Check Suites in us-east-1
- Degraded performanceSep 18, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Degraded performanceAug 10, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
Security Notice: Unauthorized Access via Third-Party Analytics Tool
Recent Honeycomb incidents
- Partial outageOct 22, 2026 · resolved in 1h 1m
Email notifications for SLOs, Triggers, and Anomaly Detection not sending
Affected: ui.honeycomb.io - US1 Trigger & SLO Alerting, ui.eu1.honeycomb.io - EU1 Trigger & SLO Alerting
- Partial outageOct 20, 2026 · resolved in <1m
- Partial outageOct 20, 2026 · resolved in 2h 21m
Affected: ui.honeycomb.io - US1 Querying, ui.honeycomb.io - US1 App Interface, ui.honeycomb.io - US1 Trigger & SLO Alerting
- Degraded performanceAug 21, 2026 · resolved in 38m
Affected: ui.honeycomb.io - US1 App Interface, ui.eu1.honeycomb.io - EU1 App Interface
- Degraded performanceAug 10, 2026 · resolved in 7h 34m
Affected: ui.honeycomb.io - US1 Querying
Other monitoring & observability tools to consider
- Rollbar · #1 · 99.98% uptime
- incident.io · #2 · 99.97% uptime
- New Relic · #3 · 99.93% uptime
- UptimeRobot · #5 · 99.93% uptime
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