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Airbrake vs Rollbar: What are the differences?
Airbrake: Airbrake captures and groups errors in Ruby, iOS, Django, PHP & more. Airbrake collects errors for your applications in all major languages and frameworks. We alert you to new errors and give you critical context, trends and details needed to find and fix errors fast; Rollbar: Full-stack error monitoring for developers. Rollbar helps development teams find and fix errors faster. Quickly pinpoint what’s broken and why. View exceptions from all of your languages, frameworks, platforms & environments in one place. Get context & insights to defeat all errors.
Airbrake and Rollbar can be categorized as "Exception Monitoring" tools.
Some of the features offered by Airbrake are:
- Dupe Detection- Developers will only receive an email once when an error occurs — rather than getting buried under an error email avalanche.
- Auto Resolve- An action on each application deployment — that way developers can focus on the problems that exist today, not the ones from last month.
- Github Aware- Airbrake is github-aware, and can link code in your Airbrake error stack traces to the corresponding locations on github.
On the other hand, Rollbar provides the following key features:
- Errors get queued, de-duped, grouped and prioritized
- View detailed stack traces with local variables
- JavaScript source map support
"Reliable" is the top reason why over 26 developers like Airbrake, while over 70 developers mention "Consolidates similar errors by impact" as the leading cause for choosing Rollbar.
Instacart, Lyft, and Twitch are some of the popular companies that use Rollbar, whereas Airbrake is used by Stack Exchange, thoughtbot, and Mailgun. Rollbar has a broader approval, being mentioned in 479 company stacks & 115 developers stacks; compared to Airbrake, which is listed in 91 company stacks and 22 developer stacks.
Pros of Airbrake
- Reliable28
- Consolidates similar errors25
- Easy setup22
- Slack Integration15
- Github Integration10
- Email notifications7
- Includes a free plan6
- Android Application to view errors.5
- Search and filtering4
- Shows request parameters4
- Heroku integration2
Pros of Rollbar
- Consolidates similar errors by impact73
- Centralize error management64
- Slack integration63
- Github integration58
- Usage based pricing47
- Insane customer support32
- Instant search23
- Heroku integration21
- Consolidate errors by OS18
- Great Free Plan15
- Trello integration15
- Flexible logging (not just exceptions)13
- Simple yet powerful error tracking tool11
- Multiple Language Support9
- Consolidate errors by browser7
- Easy setup6
- Query errors with RQL6
- Deployment tracking is a nice free bonus5
- Best rails exception handler5
- Simple and fast integration5
- Awesome service5
- Easy setup, friendly ui, demo, lots of integrations4
- Errors Analysis3
- Clear and concise information.3
- Powerful3
- Beat your users to the error report3
- Server-side + client-side3
- Easy integration with sails.js2
- Bitbucket integration2
- Mailgun integration2
- Easy Set up familiar UI that doesn't make you look dumb1
- Clear errors on deploy or push1
- Gitlab integration1
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Cons of Airbrake
- Rejects error report if non-latin characters exists0