BugSnag vs elmah.io

BugSnag monitors mobile and web applications to help development teams find errors, resolve them, and deploy stable releases. Its error inbox groups issues by root cause and sorts them by user impact. Captured diagnostics can include stack traces, threads, breadcrumbs, device details, and user information. Stability Center provides a 30-day stability score and trend analysis for each application, while performance monitoring captures app starts, screen loads, and Web Vitals. BugSnag provides error-reporting libraries for more than 50 platforms, including Android, iOS, JavaScript, macOS, Flutter, and React Native. Integrations named include Slack, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Splunk, and Amazon SQS. The Free plan lists one user, 7,500 events and 1 million spans per month, and seven days of data retention; a 14-day free trial is also listed. Select and Preferred list 60 days of retention. Enterprise offers custom retention and can be hosted on customer infrastructure or a cloud instance. Enterprise security features include two-factor authentication, SAML single sign-on, sensitive data management, and user audit logs.

elmah.io is a cloud error logging and monitoring service built specifically for.NET developers. Alongside error logs, it offers uptime monitoring, deployment tracking, and service heartbeats. Intelligent Error Grouping displays unique errors while retaining each instance, and Bugster analyzes stack traces and context to suggest possible causes and fixes. Integrations include Slack, GitHub, GitLab, Azure Pipelines, Octopus Deploy, Jira Cloud, Microsoft Teams, and Visual Studio; listed logging frameworks include Serilog, log4net, NLog, and Logary.

The maker describes 256-bit SSL connections, encryption at rest, and two-factor authentication for available sign-in methods. It says the service is PCI compliant and offers a copy of its SAQ A on request. Data retention follows the period specified by each plan. A 21-day trial is available without a credit card, but there is no free plan. Small Business costs $26 a month and includes three users, unlimited applications, 10,000 messages per month, 400 emails per month, and 30 days of retention. Higher plans add larger quotas and monitoring features. Listed platforms include Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, web, and Windows.