Honeycomb

Updated Apr 22, 2026
8%
arrow_upward5% YoY
#4

Summary

  • Honeycomb ranks #4 within the Observability category, maintaining its position month-over-month.
  • As of April 2026, 8% of organizations who have a vendor in the Observability category use Honeycomb: up 5 percentage points from last year.
  • Honeycomb has the highest adoption among small-to-medium businesses (10%), compared to mid-market (6%), enterprise (4%), and micro-SMB (9%).
  • Honeycomb key capabilities include high-cardinality observability, distributed tracing, and real-time query performance, supporting complex microservices debugging and system optimization.

Are businesses buying Honeycomb?

Key stats

8%
arrow_upward5% YoY
Mid-Market, 46%
2%
8%
#5
#5

Adoption Rates by company size

Company sizeAdoption rate
SMB10%
Mid-market6%
Enterprise4%

About Honeycomb

Honeycomb is an observability platform that provides subsecond query speeds and unified telemetry analysis using a purpose-built columnar data store. It helps engineering teams troubleshoot distributed systems with unlimited context and AI-assisted investigation capabilities.

About this data

These insights come from Ramp’s procurement and renewal data, built on real-world transactions observed across our platform. Figures represent aggregated observations from Ramp Procurement and Renewals activity.

DateNew adopter shareCompetitor switch rateDominant FTE segmentAdoption rate (Enterprise)Adoption rate (Mid-Market)Adoption rate (SMB)
Mar 20262%8%Mid-Market, 46%4%6%10%
Feb 20261%9%Mid-Market, 47%6%6%10%
Jan 20263%9%Mid-Market, 48%6%7%10%
Dec 20257%10%Mid-Market, 47%6%7%10%
Nov 202512%9%Mid-Market, 46%7%7%10%
Oct 202511%10%Mid-Market, 46%7%6%10%
Sep 20257%9%Mid-Market, 49%7%6%9%
Aug 202512%9%Mid-Market, 49%5%6%9%
Jul 20257%9%Mid-Market, 48%5%6%8%
Jun 202523%8%Mid-Market, 44%6%6%8%
May 202521%7%Mid-Market, 41%6%5%7%
Apr 202516%6%Enterprise, 42%5%4%5%
Mar 20258%5%Mid-Market, 40%6%3%4%
Feb 202516%6%Enterprise, 49%4%3%4%
Jan 20251%3%Enterprise, 50%4%1%3%
Dec 20242%3%Enterprise, 50%4%1%3%
Nov 20242%3%Enterprise, 53%4%1%2%
Oct 20242%2%Enterprise, 55%4%1%2%
Sep 20243%Enterprise, 55%5%1%2%
Aug 20243%Enterprise, 52%5%1%2%
Jul 20242%2%Enterprise, 51%5%2%2%
Jun 20241%1%Enterprise, 52%5%2%2%
May 20243%1%Mid-Market, 42%5%2%2%
Apr 20241%Mid-Market, 42%3%2%2%

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