Honeycomb

Updated Jul 12, 2026
6%
arrow_downward2% YoY
#5

Summary

  • Honeycomb ranks #5 within the Observability category, maintaining its position month-over-month.
  • As of July 2026, 6% of organizations who have a vendor in the Observability category use Honeycomb: down 2 percentage points from last year.
  • Honeycomb has the highest adoption among micro-SMB companies (6%), compared to small-to-medium businesses (6%), mid-market (4%), and enterprise (1%).
  • 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

6%
arrow_downward2% YoY
Mid-Market, 52%
1%
6%
#6
#5

Adoption Rates by company size

Company sizeAdoption rate
SMB6%
Mid-market4%
Enterprise1%

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)
Jun 20261%6%Mid-Market, 52%1%4%6%
May 20265%7%Mid-Market, 48%2%5%7%
Apr 20262%7%Mid-Market, 50%3%5%8%
Mar 20262%8%Mid-Market, 47%4%6%9%
Feb 20261%8%Mid-Market, 48%5%6%9%
Jan 20262%9%Mid-Market, 48%5%6%9%
Dec 20254%9%Mid-Market, 48%5%6%10%
Nov 20255%9%Mid-Market, 48%6%6%9%
Oct 20259%9%Mid-Market, 47%6%7%9%
Sep 20257%9%Mid-Market, 50%6%6%9%
Aug 20258%9%Mid-Market, 51%5%6%9%
Jul 20254%9%Mid-Market, 51%5%6%9%
Jun 202520%9%Mid-Market, 49%5%6%9%
May 202523%16%Mid-Market, 45%5%6%8%
Apr 202522%14%Mid-Market, 41%5%4%6%
Mar 202514%11%Mid-Market, 46%5%3%5%
Feb 202518%9%Enterprise, 41%4%3%4%
Jan 20254%Enterprise, 41%4%2%3%
Dec 20242%4%Enterprise, 42%4%2%3%
Nov 20243%4%Enterprise, 44%4%2%3%
Oct 20241%4%Enterprise, 45%4%2%2%
Sep 20244%Enterprise, 45%4%2%2%
Aug 20241%4%Enterprise, 44%4%2%2%
Jul 20241%4%Enterprise, 45%4%2%2%

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