Honeybadger vs Measure
Honeybadger and Measure are both error tracking software. Honeybadger is a commercial product from Honeybadger Industries. Measure is open source under Apache-2.0, with 1.4k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Honeybadger when
- A small team, especially a Rails shop, wants errors, uptime and job monitoring from one simple vendor.
- Pick Measure when
- A mobile team wants crash reporting and session timelines on infrastructure it controls.
Side by side
Error tracking, uptime checks, cron monitoring and logging in one hosted service, strongest for Ruby, Elixir, PHP and JavaScript apps.
Mobile app monitoring for crashes, ANRs, bugs and performance on Android, iOS, Flutter and React Native, as an alternative to Firebase Crashlytics.
A small company with a narrower feature set than the large observability platforms.
Younger and less proven than Crashlytics or Sentry.
Production-ready
Usable
Cloud service
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Not published
Go, TypeScript, Kotlin and ClickHouse
Closed source, sold by Honeybadger Industries
Open source, Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
No Wikipedia article of its own
1.4k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 3 years ago, latest release measure_dio-v0.9.0.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.