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

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Best error monitoring services for a Ruby on Rails web app	Price	Type	Hosting options
-- Airbrake	-	–	–
-- Sentry	-	aggregation	Cloud or Self-hosted
-- Bugsnag	-	prioritization + aggregation	Cloud or On-Premise/Self-hosted
-- Raygun	-	–	–
-- Rollbar	-	–	–

Airbrake

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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. See More

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No integrations on the free plan

Viktor's Experience

Very easy to use also for beginners. See More

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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. See More

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Issues with tracking errors

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

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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. See More

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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. See More

Bugsnag

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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. See More

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Type:prioritization + aggregation

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

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

Technology:Perl

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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. See More

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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. See More

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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. See More

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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. See More

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Report uncaught errors

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Stack traces

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Source map support

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Great documentation

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

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Good web UI

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Client libraries are open source

Rollbar

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Stack traces (traceback)

Stack trace with function calls and line numbers. See More

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Old-school UI

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

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Source maps support

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

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Error filtering

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Generous free plan

Free plan allows for up to 5000 events/month, customizable rate limits and 30 day retention. See More

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