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Airbrake

Long-running error and performance monitoring service now owned by LogicMonitor.

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About Airbrake

Airbrake is one of the earliest hosted error trackers, originally popular in the Ruby on Rails world and now part of LogicMonitor. It captures errors from most common languages and frameworks, groups them, shows backtraces with parameters and environment details, and highlights which deploy introduced an issue. Lightweight performance monitoring adds route timing, database query breakdowns and background job stats, which is enough for many web apps without a full APM product. Integrations cover Slack, GitHub, Jira, PagerDuty and others. It does what it says reliably, but development has been slower than at Sentry or Rollbar, and the interface shows its age. There is no free plan; pricing is monthly by error and performance event volume with tiers for users and teams, and a free trial that requires a credit card. It is a hosted web service.

Best for: Web teams wanting straightforward error tracking with light performance stats.

Pros and cons

What works

  • Simple, reliable error grouping and deploy tracking
  • Basic performance monitoring included
  • Unlimited integrations on all plans

Why people leave

  • No free plan
  • Credit card needed for the trial
  • Slower feature development than rivals

Top Airbrake alternatives

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  1. 1Sentry logo
    Sentry

    Free plan, more active development and broader features.

    66.5
  2. 2Honeybadger logo
    Honeybadger

    Similar Rails heritage with a free plan and uptime checks.

    62.6
  3. 3Rollbar logo
    Rollbar

    Comparable error tracking with a free tier.

    59.6
  4. 4AppSignal logo
    AppSignal

    Fuller APM alongside errors for Ruby, Elixir and Node apps.

    57.2
  5. 5GlitchTip logo
    GlitchTip

    Open-source, self-hostable and cheap for basic error tracking.

    55.3

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Airbrake: common questions

Is Airbrake free?

No, Airbrake is a paid product. Starting price: From $17/month (Dev plan) (checked on Airbrake's own site).

Is Airbrake open source?

No, Airbrake is not open source. Open-source alternatives include GlitchTip.

What platforms does Airbrake run on?

Airbrake is available for Web.

What are the best alternatives to Airbrake?

The highest-ranked Airbrake alternatives right now are Sentry, Honeybadger and Rollbar. See the full ranked list for pricing, platforms and verified facts.

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