What are the best error monitoring services for a Ruby on Rails web app?

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Airbrake vs Sentry vs Bugsnag

vs Raygun vs Rollbar vs Appflux

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50+ (https://www.bugsnag.com/platforms/)

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Pros + Cons

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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.

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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.

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Easy setup

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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.

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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.

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No integrations on the free plan

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Issues with tracking errors

Multiple people have reported Airbrake not being able to track errors.

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Heroku integration

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Lots of plugins for 3rd party service integration

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Email and chat notifications

Email notifications. Slack and HipChat integration.

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Automatic issues/ticket creation

GitHub issue integration.

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Groups exceptions

Easily consolidates similar errors.

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Open source

Sentry's source code is publicly available via their Github repository.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Exceptional documentation organization

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

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Custom filtering

There is is a filter building bar at the top of the main view to filter down to only bugs you are interested in, but there is also a feature to add a filter on custom information.

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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.

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Great documentation

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

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Good web UI

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Client libraries are open source

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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.

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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.

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