Monitoring & Observability · reliability comparison
Honeycomb vs PagerDuty: which is more reliable? (2026)
PagerDuty is more reliable than Honeycomb, scoring 90.0 vs 85.4 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Honeycomb reported 5 incidents and PagerDuty reported 0, with effective uptime of 99.86% and 100% respectively.
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Honeycomb | PagerDuty |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 85.4 | 90.0 |
| Rank (monitoring & observability tools) | #6 | — |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.86% | 100% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 5 | 0 |
| Partial / major outages | 3 | 0 |
| Avg time to resolve | 2h 19m | — |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 50/100 |
Where Honeycomb and PagerDuty differ
- PagerDuty reported no incidents in the last 90 days, while Honeycomb reported 5.
- Honeycomb had 3 partial or major outages, compared with 0 for PagerDuty.
90-day uptime
Honeycomb
PagerDuty
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
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
Slowness in US regionofficial update ↗
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
Recent PagerDuty incidents
No incidents reported by PagerDuty in the last 90 days.
Other monitoring & observability tools to consider
- Rollbar · #1 · 99.98% uptime
- incident.io · #2 · 99.97% uptime
- New Relic · #3 · 99.93% uptime
- Checkly · #4 · 99.96% uptime
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