Exceptionless vs RootCause
Exceptionless
exceptionless.comRootCause
therootcause.ioSide by side
| Figure | Exceptionless | RootCause |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $15/mo | $99/mo |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 6 | 3 |
| Spec score · Error Monitoring Software | 8.1 (#11) | 7.7 (#21) |
| Founded | 2013 | 2009 |
| Integrations | The integrations documentation lists Zapier, Slack, and webhooks; Zapier connects Exceptionless to over 3,000 other apps. | The feature tour lists Jira, GitHub, and Slack integrations, with email or Slack notifications for errors. |
| Security | Exceptionless says it uses SSL out of the box and provides data exclusions to remove specified fields from error reports. | The privacy policy says the website and service use SSL with 256-bit encryption and that direct server access uses two-factor authentication. |
Plans
Exceptionless
- Small$15 a month
- Medium$49 a month
- Large$99 a month
- Extra Large$199 a month
- Enterprise$499 a month
- FreePrice not published
RootCause
- Startup$99 a month
- Business (on-premises)$199 a month
- Enterprise (on-premises)$699 a month
In their own words
Exceptionless
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.
RootCause
RootCause has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.