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Rollbar vs Sentry: What are the differences?
What is 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.
What is Sentry? Cut time to resolution for app errors from five hours to five minutes . Sentry is an open-source platform for workflow productivity, aggregating errors from across the stack in real time. 500K developers use Sentry to get the code-level context they need to resolve issues at every stage of the app lifecycle.
Rollbar and Sentry belong to "Exception Monitoring" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Rollbar are:
- Errors get queued, de-duped, grouped and prioritized
- View detailed stack traces with local variables
- JavaScript source map support
On the other hand, Sentry provides the following key features:
- Real-Time Updates: For the first time, developers can fix code-level issues anywhere in the stack well before users even encounter an error.
- Complete Context: Spend more time where it matters, rather than investing in low-impact issues.
- Integrate Everywhere: Drop-in integration for every major platform, framework, and language -- JavaScript, Python, PHP, Ruby, Node, Java, .NET, mobile.
"Consolidates similar errors by impact" , "Slack integration" and "Centralize error management" are the key factors why developers consider Rollbar; whereas "Consolidates similar errors and makes resolution easy" , "Email Notifications" and "Open source" are the primary reasons why Sentry is favored.
Sentry is an open source tool with 21.2K GitHub stars and 2.42K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Sentry's open source repository on GitHub.
reddit , StackShare , and Sentry are some of the popular companies that use Sentry, whereas Rollbar is used by Instacart , Lyft , and Twitch . Sentry has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1322 company stacks & 421 developers stacks; compared to Rollbar, which is listed in 477 company stacks and 113 developer stacks.
I essentially inherited a Shopify theme that was originally created by an agency. After discovering a number of errors being thrown in the Dev Console just by scrolling through the website, I needed more visibility over any errors happening in the field. Having used both Sentry and TrackJS, I always got lost in the TrackJS interface, so I felt more comfortable introducing Sentry. The Sentry free tier is also very generous, although it turns out the theme threw over 15k errors in less than a week.
I highly recommend setting up error tracking from day one. Theoretically, you should never need to upgrade from the free tier if you're keeping on top of the errors...
Pros of Rollbar
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Consolidates similar errors by impact73
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Centralize error management64
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Slack integration63
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Github integration58
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Usage based pricing47
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Insane customer support32
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Instant search23
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Heroku integration21
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Consolidate errors by OS18
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Great Free Plan15
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Trello integration15
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Flexible logging (not just exceptions)13
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Simple yet powerful error tracking tool11
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Multiple Language Support9
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Consolidate errors by browser7
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Query errors with RQL6
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Easy setup6
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Deployment tracking is a nice free bonus5
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Best rails exception handler5
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Awesome service5
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Simple and fast integration5
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Easy setup, friendly ui, demo, lots of integrations4
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Beat your users to the error report3
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Errors Analysis3
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Server-side + client-side3
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Powerful3
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Clear and concise information.3
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Easy integration with sails.js2
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Mailgun integration2
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Bitbucket integration2
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Easy Set up familiar UI that doesn't make you look dumb1
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Teams1
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Clear errors on deploy or push1
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Gitlab integration1
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User0
Pros of Sentry
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Consolidates similar errors and makes resolution easy236
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Email Notifications121
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Open source108
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Slack integration84
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Github integration71
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Easy49
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User-friendly interface44
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The most important tool we use in production28
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Hipchat integration18
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Heroku Integration17
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Good documentation15
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Free tier14
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Self-hosted11
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Easy setup9
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Realiable7
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Provides context, and great stack trace6
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Love it baby4
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Feedback form on error pages4
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Gitlab integration3
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Filter by custom tags3
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Super user friendly3
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Captures local variables at each frame in backtraces3
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Easy Integration3
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Performance measurements1
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Cons of Rollbar
Cons of Sentry
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Confusing UI12
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Bundle size4
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