Backtrace vs Exceptionless
Backtrace
backtrace.io
Exceptionless
exceptionless.comSide by side
| Figure | Backtrace | Exceptionless |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $50/mo | $15/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 5 | 6 |
| Spec score · Error Monitoring Software | 8.8 (#4) | 8.1 (#11) |
| Spec score · Runtime Monitoring Software | 8.8 (#9) | 8.1 (#22) |
| Spec score · Error Tracking | 8.7 (#5) | 7.9 (#12) |
| Founded | 2014 | 2013 |
| Integrations | Backtrace integrates with workflow systems for source control, alerting, ticket tracking, and messaging; its site names Slack, Jira, PagerDuty, Datadog, Microsoft Teams, GitHub, and Discord. | The integrations documentation lists Zapier, Slack, and webhooks; Zapier connects Exceptionless to over 3,000 other apps. |
| Security | Sauce Labs documentation says Backtrace uses TLS for data in transit and offers 256-bit AES encryption at rest as an Enterprise feature. | Exceptionless says it uses SSL out of the box and provides data exclusions to remove specified fields from error reports. |
Plans
Backtrace
- DeveloperFree
- Standard — Mobile$600 a year
- Standard — Mobile and PC$900 a year
- Standard — Mobile, PC, Game Consoles, and Servers$1,200 a year
- ProfessionalPriced on request
Exceptionless
- Small$15 a month
- Medium$49 a month
- Large$99 a month
- Extra Large$199 a month
- Enterprise$499 a month
- FreePrice not published
In their own words
Exceptionless
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.