Exceptionless vs Honeybadger

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.

Honeybadger combines error tracking, structured logging, application performance monitoring, uptime checks, cron monitoring and status pages for production web apps. Error tracking sends real-time alerts, groups related errors, supports advanced search and includes event context. Honeybadger Insights lets teams query structured logs and trace events across requests, jobs and services. Uptime monitoring checks websites and services, while cron monitoring alerts when scheduled work fails or misses a check-in. Listed integrations include Slack, GitHub, PagerDuty, Jira and Datadog, among more than 30 tools. Supported error-monitoring languages include Ruby, JavaScript, Node, Go, Elixir, Python and PHP. The free Developer plan includes 5,000 errors per month, one uptime monitor, one status page, one user and 15 days of retention. Team costs $26 a month; Business costs $80 a month. New accounts receive a 30-day trial without a credit card.