When comparing Sentry vs Bugsnag, the Slant community recommends Sentry for most people. In the question“What are the best JavaScript client-side error logging services?” Sentry is ranked 2nd while Bugsnag is ranked 5th. The most important reason people chose Sentry is:
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.
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Pros
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.
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.
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.
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
Pro Source maps support
Has support for source maps.
Pro Can create projects and teams
A single Sentry server can be used for various teams/products.
Pro Great documentation
Clear, concise documentation. Plus docs on cross-domain script errors and enabling CORS.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pro Supports phabricator integrations
Not many products have decided to finally start doing this, phabricator now has a champion.
Pro Source map support
Pro Stack traces
Pro Client libraries are open source
Pro Report uncaught errors
Pro Good web UI
Cons
Con Not really a logging solution
Sentry collects exceptions, it's not a solution for log aggregation.
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...)
Con No free cloud hosting
Unfortunately there is no free plan for cloud hosted solution. Only self-hosted solutions are free to use.
Con The tool seems flaky
De-obfuscation doesn't always work on react-native projects.
Con Blocked by ad blockers by default
Bugsnag is blocked by the AdBlock EasyPrivacy filter.