Exceptionless vs Raygun Application Performance Monitoring

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.

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.