BugSnag vs Raygun Application Performance Monitoring

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.

Raygun Application Performance Monitoring (APM) monitors server-side performance and provides trend data, real-time performance information, and user-experience data. Request traces can be examined by method, request, query, and external API call, while expandable visual views help inspect asynchronous threads. Raygun can display source code from GitHub, Bitbucket, or Azure Repos. Its issue engine prioritizes performance issues and can send proactive notifications; sampling and code filtering help control noise and overhead costs. The cloud service supports transaction tracing, real user monitoring, Core Web Vitals, mobile app monitoring, interaction tracking, geographic breakdown, and error correlation, with data retention of 90+ days. APM documentation lists integrations for GitHub, Jira, PagerDuty, and Slack. Compatible environments include Node.js, Ruby, .NET, .NET Core, and Azure App Service; agent installation options are available for Windows and Linux. Raygun describes APM for customer-centric teams seeking improvements that affect end-user experience. The pricing note lists From $80/mo (annual), and a 14-day trial is available.