Monitoring & Observability · reliability comparison
Honeycomb vs Sentry: which is more reliable? (2026)
Honeycomb is more reliable than Sentry, scoring 85.4 vs 54.9 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Honeycomb reported 5 incidents and Sentry reported 23, with effective uptime of 99.86% and 98.93% respectively. Honeycomb resolves incidents faster on average (2h 19m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Honeycomb | Sentry |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 85.4 | 54.9 |
| Rank (monitoring & observability tools) | #6 | #14 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.86% | 98.93% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 5 | 23 |
| Partial / major outages | 3 | 15 |
| Avg time to resolve | 2h 19m | 2h 21m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Honeycomb and Sentry differ
- Sentry reported 4.6× as many incidents as Honeycomb over the last 90 days (23 vs 5).
- Sentry had 15 partial or major outages, compared with 3 for Honeycomb.
- Honeycomb's longest outage on record lasted 3d (Dec 5, 2025); Sentry's lasted 6h 18m (Aug 27, 2026).
90-day uptime
Honeycomb
Sentry
- 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 Sentry incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 21, 2026 · resolved in 21m
Increased latency processing integration webhooks
Affected: Slack, Integration Pipeline
- Major outageOct 21, 2026 · resolved in 1h
- Partial outageOct 20, 2026 · resolved in 3h 18m
- Major outageOct 19, 2026 · resolved in 53m
- Partial outageOct 14, 2026 · resolved in 2h 34m
- Major outageOct 6, 2026 · resolved in 42m
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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