Airbrake vs Bugsink

Airbrake monitors application errors and performance, continuously watching an application stack and sending real-time alerts. Error groups, hotspots, breadcrumbs, backtraces, and aggregations give technical teams context for investigating issues. Deployment Tracking measures errors resolved or introduced with each deployment, while Apdex Scores help interpret user satisfaction. Airbrake supports more than 50 languages, frameworks, and libraries, using agentless and serverless notifiers described as having near-zero application impact. Listed integrations include Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab, Jira, LogRocket, Okta, OneLogin, PivotalTracker, Slack, Trello, Webhooks, and Zapier. Its mobile notifier supports Android, iOS, Swift, and React Native. The free plan has a quota of 50,000 events per month; paid plans start at $17/mo billed annually. A 30-day trial includes unlimited errors and performance monitoring events, with 30 days of data retention. Accounts have monthly quotas, and excess usage is charged at on-demand rates. Airbrake lists web and API access alongside Android and iOS platforms.

Bugsink collects exceptions from running applications and displays them centrally so developers can investigate production failures. It works with Sentry’s open-source SDKs; an application can send events after its DSN is changed. Repeated errors are grouped into issues, with search and trends to support review, resolution, or muting. Debugging information includes stack traces, code, and local variables. Alerts can be sent through email, Slack, Mattermost, Discord, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, or custom HTTP endpoints. Customers can use Bugsink’s managed hosting or self-host the product on their own infrastructure. The company says hosted service data is located in the European Union, while self-hosted data remains on the customer’s infrastructure. The hosted free tier allows 15K monthly events, one user, and 5K retained events. The 75K Events plan costs $16 a month and includes unlimited users and 75K retained events; 600K Events costs $50 a month with 600K retained events and unlimited users. Self-hosting costs nothing, includes all features and unlimited users, and bases volume on hardware.