Ruby Application & Performance Monitoring

Honeybadger integrates seamlessly with Ruby through our official gem. The honeybadger gem automatically captures unhandled exceptions in controllers, background jobs, rake tasks, etc., and collects application logs and performance metrics. The integration includes:

• Automatic Ruby error monitoring and exception handling
• Request context and parameters
• Background job context and parameters
• User information when available
• Logs and performance metrics
• Deep integrations with popular Ruby libraries like Sidekiq, DelayedJob, Puma, and more

See our Ruby monitoring docs for more details.

Honeybadger collects comprehensive Ruby performance monitoring data including:

• Request/response cycles
• Database queries
• View rendering
• Cache operations
• Background job execution
• ActionMailer events
• Net::HTTP client requests
• Memory usage and garbage collection stats
• Events and metrics for Rails, Sidekiq, Puma, Karafka, and more

For full details, see our Ruby documentation for the events and metrics that we collect.

Honeybadger does not impact your application's performance. That's because we designed Honeybadger to be lightweight and efficient from the start:

• Asynchronous error reporting by default
• Well-optimized Ruby gem with low memory usage
• Customizable rate limiting controls
• Background processing for logs and metrics

If you have large amounts of log data to send us, you can also take advantage of our syslog, Vector, or PaaS integrations.

These are three distinct but complementary aspects of application monitoring:

• Error Tracking focuses on capturing and managing exceptions and errors in your application. It helps you identify when and why your application fails and which users are affected, with detailed stack traces, context, and debugging information. Unlike some APM tools, Honeybadger notifies you about errors as soon as they happen and groups similar errors together to reduce notification fatigue.

• Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tracks how your application performs over time, measuring metrics like response times, throughput, and resource utilization. It helps identify bottlenecks and optimize application speed. Honeybadger captures performance telemetry, which we use to power our automated dashboards. A key difference between Honeybadger and other APM tools is that we also give you direct access to the raw structured data in Honeybadger Insights, which is super powerful.

• Logging provides a chronological record of events and messages in your application. It's useful for debugging, auditing, and understanding the flow of your application. In Honeybadger, logs are stored as structured events. While you can send any kind of log to Honeybadger, structured logging unlocks the full power of Honeybadger Insights, which allows you to query, transform, and visualize your data in real-time.

While each serves a different purpose, they work together to give you a complete picture of your application's health. Honeybadger provides tools for all three, and best of all, they're deeply integrated with each other to help you understand and fix issues faster.

Yes! Honeybadger offers flexible notification options:

• Email notifications with customizable templates
• Integration with Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Discord
• Webhook support for custom integrations
• Custom notification rules based on error type or environment
• Intelligent grouping and rate limiting to prevent notification fatigue

See our alerts & integrations docs for more details.

Honeybadger provides comprehensive frontend error tracking support:

• JavaScript/TypeScript with support for all major frameworks (React, Vue, Angular)
• Source map support for minified code
• Automatic context collection (browser, OS, device info)
• Integration with popular build tools and bundlers

Check out our JavaScript documentation for detailed setup instructions and best practices.

Our Developer plan is free for low-traffic applications and includes:

• Up to 5,000 errors per month
• 50MB/day of application logs
• Basic uptime monitoring
• Basic notifications
• 1 status page
• Community support

See our detailed pricing to learn more about our plans.

Honeybadger offers flexible pricing plans to suit teams of all sizes:

• Developer plan: Free for low-traffic applications
• Team plan: Starts at $26/month for growing teams
• Business plan: Starts at $80/month for established businesses
• Enterprise plan: Custom pricing for large organizations

All paid plans include additional features like advanced integrations, priority support, and higher usage limits. View our detailed pricing or contact sales for custom enterprise solutions.