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score 13 · Answer 1

Rollbar

Top Pro

Error information from 3rd party scripts even without correct CORS

This feature is quite an interesting technical feat, considering that it shouldn't really be possible to get error information form 3rd party scripts. See this and this for discussions. See More

Top Con

No context for some errors

For some errors (possibly JavaScript injected into the page), Rollbar is unable to offer any context. See More

Top Pro

Generous free plan

Free plan allows for up to 5000 events/month, customizable rate limits, integrations (e.g. with Slack), multiple users, and 30 day retention. See More

Top Con

Old-school UI

Built with the default Bootstrap theme. Looks like 2011. See More

Top Pro

Integrates with Slack

Rollbar can be integrated with Slack to send notifications of various event to a set Slack channel based on customizable rules. See More

Top Pro

Stack traces (traceback)

Stack trace with function calls and line numbers. See More

Top Pro

Client library is open source

Top Pro

Custom error grouping

Top Pro

Not blocked by ad blockers

At least as of 2015-July-14. Many other prominent loggers are blocked, e.g. Loggly and LogEntries. See More

Top Pro

Capture any uncaught errors

Rollbar allows sending any log messages to Rollbar not just exceptions enabling you to go back and check for missed exceptions. See More

Top Pro

Supports "deploy" events

You can easily send "deploy" events with curl, so that you know to which version the errors apply. Errors are grouped automatically by name/type, but if the re-occur after a deploy, they'll be shown again above the deploy in the timeline. See More

Top Pro

Multiple integration options

Asana - Create and resolve Asana tasks Bitbucket Issues - Create and manage Bitbucket Issues Campfire - Get alerts in your Campfire room Flowdock - Get messages in your flow GitHub Issues - Create and manage GitHub Issues HipChat - Get alerts in your HipChat room JIRA - Create, resolve, and reopen JIRA issues PagerDuty - Trigger and resolve incidents in PagerDuty Pivotal Tracker - Create and manage Pivotal Tracker stories Slack - get alerts in a chatroom or group Sprintly - Create and manage Sprintly items Trello - Create and manage cards in Trello VictorOps - Trigger and recover alerts in VictorOps Webhook - Post JSON payloads to arbitrary URLs Email - get notifications and daily summaries See More

Top Pro

Source maps support

Source map support is used to reference original source code in cases where the code is minified. See More

Top Pro

Error filtering

Rollbar allows ignoring specific exceptions simply by adding the error message to the ignoredMessages array. See More

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score 93 · Answer 2

TrackJS JavaScript Error Logging

Top Pro

Telemetry timeline

Understanding the console, network, and user events that led up to an error makes it possible to recreate it in development. See More

Top Con

Multiple errors from the same user can bloat your metrics

No "distinct" error count. If a loop ends up inflating a single user's error count, all reports are affected. Dashboard skewed by weird outliers. Recently (as of February 2018) sorting by "users impacted" was introduced to reduce this problem. See More

Top Pro

Error trends

Reports show what are the important errors to focus on fixing. See More

Top Con

No deployments using a REST API call

Top Pro

Wraps console.log for errors

All messages sent into console are included with error messages for additional context and logging. See More

Top Pro

Realtime notifications

See when new errors are happening in Slack or Hipchat rooms. See More

Top Pro

Ability to track an error down to a specific customer (if necessary)

TrackJS supports custom user IDs, which can be random strings that we, the customer can assign to a certain user. This helps a lot when handling a support request or a bug report from customers. See More

Top Pro

Daily summary email

You can see how your site is doing every day with a summary of all the interesting activity and errors that should be checked into. See More

Top Pro

Engineer Support

You will always get an engineer who can understand and answer your question right away whenever you need help. See More

Top Pro

Highly customizable with custom JS code on the page

Hooks in the code that let you customize just about anything, you can get the error object before it's sent to the server and do whatever you like with it. See More

Top Pro

Inline sourcecode snippets

Error messages and stacktraces are shown with snippets of the raw source at the location. This gives a ton of context to quickly find the error. See More

Top Pro

Powerful ignore rules and grouping rules

To ignore spurious errors. See More

Top Pro

Find bug in product easily

TrackJs is very useful to catch console errors. See More

Top Pro

Analytics dashboard

A snapshot of how you are doing, comparing page view volume to error volume. See More

Top Pro

Very useful product for use and tracking issues

Top Pro

Personal touch customer support

Top Pro

Predictable Billing

No surprise bills caused by changes in usage. See More

Top Pro

Client specs

Some general information like browser, operating system and viewport used by the client may help to determine source of trouble more precisely. See More

Specs

Price:$49/month

Languages:JavaScript

API:Yes

Hosting options:Cloud

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score 7 · Answer 3

Raygun

Top Pro

Allows leaving comments on issues

It's possible to comment on issues. Great for coordinating if and how exceptions should be handled within a team. See More

Top Con

Inefficient UI

Top Pro

Exceptions are grouped

Raygun groups similar exceptions together displaying the number of occurences so that there's no need to deal with each instance of the error separately. See More

Top Pro

Daily digest emails

Raygun can send a summary of all error that have happened over the day. See More

Top Pro

Email notifications

Raygun can be set up to send email notifications as soon as exceptions occur. See More

Specs

Supported languages:Any

Integrations:Unlimited

Filtering:Custom

Pricing :Event and error based

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score 11 · Answer 4

Airbrake

Top Con

Non-free / propritary software

Airbrake is non-free software, so it cannot be self-hosted, audited, or improved upon by the community. Your data is insecure - open to be read by Airbrake Inc, and if they shut down you will be unable to continue using the software. See More

Top Pro

Easy to use UI

Airbrake.io boasts a beautiful user interface which gives easy access to features such as intelligent error grouping and application insights, session details and backtraces. All these allow you to squash those bugs at a much faster pace. See More

Top Con

No integrations on the free plan

Top Pro

Airbrake errors can be self-hosted on Errbit

Errbit is a self-hosted error catcher for Airbrake. It allows keeping errors off Airbrake's servers by using Airbrake's error tracking tools to send error logs to your own ErrBit based web service. Useful for when errors contain sensitive client data. See More

Top Pro

Asynchronous error tracking script

By including Airbrake's client side error tracking JS into your code, you won't have to worry about it affecting your page load times at all. Since the library loads asynchronously, which means it won't cause painful delays for your site's visitors. See More

Top Pro

Easy integration with other applications

Airbrake integrates easily with Github, Hipchat, Asana and a number of other services, which can be viewed here. Also if you've got a custom app you'd like to integrate into Airbrake, you can use Airbrake's public API or there web hooks functionality to your advantage. See More

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score 68 · Answer 5

Sentry

Top Pro

Consolidates similar errors and makes resolution easy

It's what Sentry calls [Rollups](https://docs.sentry.io/learn/rollups/]. All individual issues rolled-up can still be drilled down. Also two issues can be merged manually. See More

Top Con

Not really a logging solution

Sentry collects exceptions, it's not a solution for log aggregation. See More

Top Pro

Email/Slack/GitHub/Hipchat integration

Newly discovered issues (i.e. one that isn't rolled-up under and existing one) can generate an instant notification via many means. See More

Top Con

Can't filter by browser versions

Sentry only filters by browser names and not by browser versions (for example: Firefox, instead of Firefox 27, Firefox 28 etc...) See More

Top Pro

Has an official Docker image

Sentry has an official Docker image which means it's likely going to be well reviewed and maintained for a while and it makes it easy to set up. See More

Top Con

No free cloud hosting

Unfortunately there is no free plan for cloud hosted solution. Only self-hosted solutions are free to use. See More

Top Pro

Completely open source, with a hosted version available

Sentry is a completely open source tool. It's free to use if you want to run it on your own. If you want to avoid the overhead of running and maintaining another server, it also has a hosted version available at www.getsentry.com See More

Top Pro

Source maps support

Has support for source maps. See More

Top Pro

Can create projects and teams

A single Sentry server can be used for various teams/products. See More

Specs

Type:aggregation

Hosting options:Cloud or Self-hosted

Supported languages:Any

Supported input methods:Any

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score 1 · Answer 6

Errorception

Top Pro

Extremely high performance

Errorception's script loads incredibly fast on your webpage, without affecting your site's load time at all. See More

Top Con

No Free Plan

Even though Errorception does offer a Free (No credit Card required) 30 day trial, the bug tracking service does not offer a Free plan, unlike some of the other services in the list. See More

Top Pro

Reasonable pricing

Even though the company offers no free plan, their other plans are quite reasonably priced, with the micro plan starting at just $5 a month and a 500 errors/month quota. See More

Top Pro

Provides all necessary Error tracking features

Errorception, along with its competitors provides the same vast set of tools, to make your life easier. Features include grouping of errors, noise reduction (caused by misbehaving plugins in client browsers), error filtering and Email alerts as well. See More

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score 17 · Answer 7

Bugsnag

Top Pro

Great documentation

Clear, concise documentation. Plus docs on cross-domain script errors and enabling CORS. See More

Top Con

The tool seems flaky

De-obfuscation doesn't always work on react-native projects. See More

Top Pro

Email, chat, sms notifications

Bugsnag can be set up to send email notifications as soon as exceptions occur. It can also integrate with a number of third-party services that can be used for notifications including Campfire, HipChat, Twilio SMS and custom solutions via Webhook. See More

Top Con

Blocked by ad blockers by default

Bugsnag is blocked by the AdBlock EasyPrivacy filter. See More

Top Pro

Automatic issues/ticket creation

Bugsnag integrates with a wide variety of 3rd party tools to automatically create issues or tickets. Integrations include GitHub, BitBucket, UserVoice, Trello and many, many others. See More

Top Pro

Has a free plan

After a two-week full-featured free trial period the user is limited to 2,000 errors/month, 1 user and 1 project. See More

Top Pro

Exceptions are grouped

Bugsnag groups similar exceptions together displaying the number of occurences so that there's no need to deal with each instance of the error separately. See More

Top Pro

Exceptional documentation organization

Their documentation was well organized, easy to search through for the platform of choice and quick work of full product integration. See More

Top Pro

Supports Unity 3D

Drop in place integration with Unity 3D, only a simple API Token configuration on game object and everything was up & running with almost zero code written. See More

Top Pro

Supports phabricator integrations

Not many products have decided to finally start doing this, phabricator now has a champion. See More

Top Pro

Source map support

Top Pro

Stack traces

Top Pro

Client libraries are open source

Top Pro

Report uncaught errors

Top Pro

Good web UI

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac, Cloud

Type:prioritization + aggregation

Technology:Perl

Hosting options:Cloud or On-Premise/Self-hosted

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score 99 · Answer 8

Logentries

Top Pro

Real-time alerts

Alerts can be created based on tags or by setting criteria via the intuitive and powerful search capabilities of LogEntries. To not flood notifications it's possible to specify limitations for alerts, such as how many times an hour an event has to happen for it to trigger a notification. Notifications can be sent by email, mobile messaging or via webhooks (webhooks are sent server in real-time, so there's no need for polling for changes). See More

Top Con

Confusing interface

The interface is packed with features and options, many of them I'm not sure what they do at all. See More

Top Pro

Supports a diverse set of programming languages

Including Java, .Net, Ruby, PHP, node.js, Python. See More

Top Con

Character limit for each log entry

Currently log entries are limited to 8192 characters, if your log entry runs over this amount then it will be truncated where the excess log will be a new entry in the UI. This can easily cause a problem JSON structure with java stacktraces. See More

Top Pro

Free up to 5 GB

Logentries free product allows uploading up to 5 GB of logs a month and has a 7-day retention period. The free product is available after the 30-day trial ends. See More

Top Con

Limited search capabilites

Compared to Elasticsearch and other competitors, search syntax has few features, apart from regexp and NOT/AND/OR combining. E.g. has no syntax to determine if a field is absent. See More

Top Pro

Works with multiple PaaS and IaaS

Logentries works with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Heroku, AppFog, Engine Yard and other platform as a service (PaaS) providers, along with Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, Microsoft Azure and other infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers. See More

Top Con

Expensive

The average plan is over $1.5 per GB, which can get very expensive for any sort of reasonable volume. See More

Top Pro

Event and search updates can be viewed in real-time

In Live Tail mode events and searches update in real-time. Live Tail mode can be used in Aggregate View, that allows selecting a combination of logfiles to be viewed together, and with any log groups created. These events are supplemented with tags to allows getting an overview of current events quickly at a glance. See More

Top Con

Short retention

The retention is very short (14 - 30 days). See More

Top Pro

Supports the most popular programming frameworks

Supports the most popular programming frameworks, including Ruby and node.js. See More

Top Con

There's a limit of 100 logs per server

Should you have a webserver that hosts many sites, you'll hit this undocumented limit. The token-based alternative solution is inconvenient to set up and maintain. See More

Top Pro

Offers an easy way of visualizing data via graphs

LogEntries allows each logfile to have a separate dashboard of various graphs & widgets put together for visualizing data. A dashboard is put together by dragging & dropping graphs and widgets into place. Graphs and widgets include charts, tables, gauges, event counts among other forms of data visualization. See More

Top Con

Can't track the source of errors in 3rd party libraries

Top Pro

Real-time tagging makes reading logs easier

Colored indicators can be set that highlight events in a log in real-time based on given criteria. Criteria are set via intuitive and powerful search capabilities of LogEntries. See More

Top Con

Insufficiently secure web client logger

No progress since this was reported in September 2013. See More

Top Pro

Easy to set up

Logentries can be set up quickly and with relative ease. See More

Top Con

Grouping is unsorted and limited

Eg. you can't really check what browsers people use, because the report is limited to 40 unique strings. See More

Top Pro

Great search

LogEntries has human readable, intuitive and powerful search with support for logical expressions, comparison expressions, regular expressions and ability to search based on field, group based on approximations over time, use functions such as count, sum, average and unique as well as save searches. See More

Top Con

Blocked by ad blockers by default

https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easyprivacy.txt includes logentries See More

Top Pro

Timestamps are displayed in the local time zone

Unlike Loggly, LogEntries displays timestamps in your timezone. You don't even have to configure anything. See More

Top Con

No specialized reporting for JavaScript

No stack trace, or XHR recording. Compare with UserSnap or Rollbar or TrackJS. See More

Top Pro

Excellent documentation

LogEntries has comprehensive documentation that's easy to read and understand and includes lots of screenshots and examples. See More

Top Con

Signing up requires phone number

Top Pro

Good technical support

Answer incidents pretty quickly. See More

Top Con

No CDN for the web client logger

Top Pro

Prepared viewlets

Easy to get information fast with integrated dashboards. Also I can change as I want easy by rewriting query See More

Top Con

TypeErrors (X is not a function) are not tracked

Loggly catches them by default. LogEntries doesn't seem to catch them even if catchall is set to true. See the GitHub issue. See More

Specs

Type:aggregation & monitoring

Hosting options:Cloud hosted

Supported languages:Android / GoLang / JavaScript/HTML5 / iOS / Java / .NET / .NET Serilog / PHP Logging / Python

Integrations:AppEngine / AppFog / AppHarbor / Azure / Cisco / Cloud 66 / CloudBees / CloudControl / Engine Yard / Heroku / Jelastic / Joyent / Nodejitsu / OpenShift / Fastly / AWS (S3 / Archiving / CloudWatch) / DataHub / CloudTrail

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score 6 · Answer 9

JSNLog

Top Con

No hosted option

You'll have to store client-side logs along with your server-side logs. See More

Top Pro

Integrates with your existing server-side logging package

Not a hosted option, so you'll store client-side logs along with your server-side logs. See More

Top Con

No reporting capabilities

Your server logging solution should provide that, and JSNlog integrates with Elmah, Log4Net, NLog, Serilog, Common.Logging. See More

Top Pro

Stack traces

JSNLog passes exception log messages with its stack trace. See More

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