BugSnag vs Exceptionless

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.

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.