HoneyBadger - Even More Awesome than Ever

Please note that all opinions are that of the author.

My new side project is hosted on Heroku and while Heroku is delightfully easy to deploy projects to, it has a limit on log files of 1500 lines. That’s basically close to zero for even a tiny side project so I moved to using HoneyBadger for error handling.

HoneyBadger is one of those tools that I’ve watched ever since it started and I’ve seen it become consistently better over the years. I haven’t used in a bit and I cannot state just how awesome the overall experience and how thoughtfully designed every aspect of it was.

Here are some of the features that were new to me:

• Jira Integration (convert an exception to a Jira issue)
• Delegated credit card support (allows a developer’s boss to add the credit card without giving it to the developer)
• 25+ different integrations
• Github Issue integration
• Uptime monitoring
• Support for a metric crap ton of languages including: Ruby, Javascript, Elixir, Go, NodeJS, Java, Python, PHP, Clojure, C#, Crystal, Haskell, Google Apps Scripts

Absolutely Recommended.

Oh and in contrast, I also looked at Timber.io (logfile capture versus exception monitoring; two approaches to the same thing and Timber.io doesn’t even work with Rails 6 so, well, NOPE!)