Helios is an OpenTelemetry-based observability and troubleshooting platform that correlates traces, logs, and metrics to reduce time-to-detect and time-to-fix issues and provide runtime context for prioritization within Snyk's application security workflows.
Published May 16, 2026
| Starting Price | Pricing bundled with Snyk commercial offerings; standalone terms not published | Published pricing available from the vendor; total costs can grow with scale and ingest | Published pricing available from the vendor; positioned for high-cardinality debugging workflows |
| Best For | Teams seeking OpenTelemetry-based tracing and trace/log/metric correlation, and teams evaluating runtime context for AppSec prioritization via Snyk | Organizations seeking a broad, integrated observability suite with many integrations | Teams focused on high-cardinality event analysis and exploratory debugging of distributed systems |
| Key Strength | Developer-oriented workflows and OpenTelemetry-based correlation of traces, logs, and metrics; integration pathway into Snyk’s runtime context for AppSec prioritization | Breadth of features, extensive integrations, mature dashboards and enterprise capabilities | Strong model for debugging complex distributed systems with exploratory queries and high-cardinality support |
| Key Weakness | Limited public evidence of scale and enterprise controls for Helios as a standalone product; future behavior depends on Snyk integration and product packaging | Potential for increasing costs at scale and concerns about vendor lock-in noted by some customers | Requires a shift in data model and operations; not always a drop-in for teams expecting traditional dashboarding approaches |