ApiTraffic vs Honeybadger for Node.js APIs
Honeybadger is built around errors. ApiTraffic is built around requests: every one your API handles, including the ones that returned a 200 with the wrong body.
Which one fits
Choose Honeybadger if
- Exception tracking is your main job, across several languages and front ends.
- You want uptime and cron check-in monitoring in the same tool as your error reports.
Choose ApiTraffic if
- Every request, not only the ones that threw: headers, bodies, timing and status, searchable and grouped by endpoint, so
/orders/ord_8f21ais one line on the chart as/orders/{order_id}. - The queries behind each request, with N+1 queries flagged with the file and line.
- API drift detection: a removed field or a changed type is flagged on the deploy that caused it, even when no error is thrown.
- A firewall in the same middleware, with every verdict on the same record as the trace.
How each one bills
Honeybadger publishes its own plans on its pricing page; compare the current numbers there.
ApiTraffic has published plans priced by captured requests: logging, APM, alerting and a firewall in one product, with what each plan includes and its overage rate printed on the pricing page.
Running both, or moving over from Honeybadger
They overlap less than the category names suggest. If Honeybadger already reports exceptions across your stack, you can keep it and add ApiTraffic to your Node APIs: the middleware records requests and does not touch your error reporter.
Start with one service, npm i @apitraffic/node, and see what the request log shows that the error list did not.
Know what your API did - before your customers tell you.
One npm install and one line of code. Your first requests arrive in minutes, with their queries, their firewall verdict and a baseline for every endpoint already building.
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