Airbrake vs Exceptionless

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.

Exceptionless provides real-time error, feature, and log reporting for applications. Applications can send events to its dashboard, where users organize them with tags. It groups exceptions, logs, and feature events into reports that include stack traces. Supported application types include JavaScript, Node,.NET Core, ASP.NET, Web API, WebForms, WPF, Console, and MVC. Project configuration changes can reach clients in near real time without changing deployed application code. The free plan includes one project, one user, three days of event retention, and 3,000 events per month; it has no premium features, and error occurrence notifications are limited to daily summaries. Paid plans start at $15 a month and include features such as searching, occurrence notifications, webhooks, Slack integration, and Zapier integration. Exceptionless is open source and can be self-hosted using its server and frontend source code or a Docker image; Kubernetes is also supported. It says it uses SSL out of the box and offers data exclusions for specified fields in reports.