# Honeybadger alternative for Node.js APIs - ApiTraffic

> ApiTraffic vs Honeybadger for Node.js APIs: every request recorded with its payload and queries, not only the ones that threw.

Source: https://dev.apitraffic.io/vs/honeybadger

ApiTraffic vs Honeybadger

# 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.

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The honest version

## 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_8f21a` is 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.

Pricing

## 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](/pricing).

Switching

## 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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