Honeycomb Pro: Now With Metrics & SLOs

Honeycomb Pro accounts are now enhanced with access to Honeycomb Metrics and two Service Level Objectives (SLOs), features previously exclusive to Enterprise accounts, though this change accompanies an upcoming price increase for Pro plans starting April 26, 2022. Current Pro customers, as well as those who sign up before the new pricing takes effect, will retain their existing rates until April 2023, allowing them to enjoy the expanded capabilities for a year without additional cost. Honeycomb Metrics enables users to integrate essential system metrics with application observability data for a holistic view of application performance and dependencies, utilizing tools like OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, or AWS Cloudwatch for data input. The SLOs feature helps organizations prioritize and debug business-critical issues by setting performance thresholds and error budgets, thus facilitating collaborative adjustments in engineering priorities. To aid users in maximizing these new offerings, Honeycomb is hosting events, such as discussions with Heroku engineers and a fireside chat with Honeycomb's leadership, focusing on practical applications and strategies for incident response using SLOs.