Monitoring & Observability · reliability comparison
Honeycomb vs Rollbar: which is more reliable? (2026)
Rollbar is more reliable than Honeycomb, scoring 96.1 vs 85.4 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Honeycomb reported 5 incidents and Rollbar reported 3, with effective uptime of 99.86% and 99.98% respectively. Rollbar resolves incidents faster on average (37m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Honeycomb | Rollbar |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 85.4 | 96.1 |
| Rank (monitoring & observability tools) | #6 | #1 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.86% | 99.98% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 5 | 3 |
| Partial / major outages | 3 | 0 |
| Avg time to resolve | 2h 19m | 37m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Honeycomb and Rollbar differ
- Honeycomb reported 67% more incidents than Rollbar over the last 90 days (5 vs 3).
- Honeycomb had 3 partial or major outages, compared with 0 for Rollbar.
- Rollbar fixes problems faster: 37m on average, against 2h 19m for Honeycomb (3.7× quicker).
- Honeycomb's longest outage on record lasted 3d (Dec 5, 2025); Rollbar's lasted 12h 9m (May 18, 2026).
90-day uptime
Honeycomb
Rollbar
- 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
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 Rollbar incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 28, 2026 · resolved in 13m
Increased occurrence processing pipeline latency
Affected: Source map processing pipeline, Proguard processing pipeline, Core Processing Pipeline, iOS Symbolication processing pipeline
- MaintenanceOct 23, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: API Tier (api.rollbar.com), Proguard processing pipeline, Core Processing Pipeline, Web Application (app.rollbar.com), iOS Symbolication processing pipeline, Source map processing pipeline
- MaintenanceOct 18, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: Core Processing Pipeline, Web Application (app.rollbar.com), iOS Symbolication processing pipeline, Source map processing pipeline, API Tier (api.rollbar.com), Proguard processing pipeline +1 more
- MaintenanceOct 14, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: Web Application (app.rollbar.com), iOS Symbolication processing pipeline, Source map processing pipeline, API Tier (api.rollbar.com), Proguard processing pipeline, Core Processing Pipeline
- MaintenanceSep 23, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: iOS Symbolication processing pipeline, Source map processing pipeline, API Tier (api.rollbar.com), Proguard processing pipeline, Homepage (rollbar.com), Core Processing Pipeline +1 more
- MaintenanceSep 21, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: Source map processing pipeline, API Tier (api.rollbar.com), Proguard processing pipeline, Homepage (rollbar.com), Core Processing Pipeline, Web Application (app.rollbar.com) +1 more
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