Guided scenario
Budget error tracking
Catching crashes before users report them shouldn't be costly for a small team. This shortlist ranks error-tracking tools by value, surfacing affordable and self-hostable crash and exception monitoring. Weigh the free tier's event limits, self-hosting, and how well noise is grouped and prioritized, plus session replay and performance monitoring if you want context on what the user did before the error.
Airbrake
www.airbrake.io
Airbrake is an error and performance monitoring tool that captures application exceptions and alerts developers when problems occur.
Bugsink
www.bugsink.com
Bugsink is a self-hosted, Sentry-SDK-compatible error tracking tool focused solely on capturing, grouping, and triaging application errors.
GlitchTip
glitchtip.com
GlitchTip is an open-source, Sentry-SDK-compatible error tracking tool that can be self-hosted or used as a managed service.
Honeybadger
www.honeybadger.io
Honeybadger is an application health monitoring tool that combines error tracking, uptime monitoring, and cron/scheduled-job monitoring in a single product.
Insight Hub (formerly BugSnag)
www.bugsnag.com
Insight Hub (formerly BugSnag), now part of SmartBear, is an error and performance monitoring tool known for app stability scores and strong mobile support.
Raygun
raygun.com
Raygun is an error, crash, and performance monitoring platform for web and mobile applications, with real user monitoring and APM capabilities.
Rollbar
rollbar.com
Rollbar is an error monitoring platform for detecting, grouping, and tracking application errors in real time, founded in 2012.
Sentry
sentry.io
Sentry is an error tracking and performance monitoring platform that captures, groups, and helps diagnose application errors, with added session replay and performance monitoring.
TrackJS
trackjs.com
TrackJS is a hosted JavaScript error monitoring service for front-end and web applications, centered on a telemetry timeline that records the requests, interactions, and logs leading up to each error.