GitHub Issues vs Bugsnag

GitHub's UI is clean and intuitive. Each view is designed to not fill the screen with useless information.

For example, the repository view displays only the most crucial data about that repo - on the top it displays the number of commits, branches, releases and contributors. When clicked, each of them will take the user to a page that displays more detailed information.

GitHub is the largest code host on the planet with over 21.4 million hosted repositories and many users. It's unarguably the largest VCS used by developers worldwide and as such, it has a vibrant community that follows it resulting in many guides and tutorials for new users. Even experienced developers can always find an answer to any question they may have.

GitHub has added another layer of security to their user accounts. This layer comes in the form of Two-Factor authentication. After it's enabled, GitHub delivers an authentication code by SMS, or by a free application for smartphones. After two-factor authentication is enabled, the authentication code is sent to the account owner's phone any time someone attempts to sign into their GitHub account. This means that only someone who has both the password and authentication code can sign into the account.

GitHub can be integrated with Travis CI for code testing and it is free for free open-source projects.

Any user can fork a project and submit a pull request. If accepted by the owner, the fork will be merged with the master branch.

GitHub has easy and useful features to control teams, large and small alike. Team members can be given different powers on different projects, ranging from the ability to create them, to only being able to have read-only access.

GitHub has native apps for mobile (iOS and Android), Windows and Mac, which make code deployment easier and faster.

Issues can be linked to a specific release using GitHub Projects.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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