BugSnag
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How to Replace BugSnagOverview
Features
67 features across 21 categories
AI(1)
SmartBear MCP server brings error data into IDE and provides AI-powered fix suggestions for faster debugging
Alerting(6)
Configure advanced notification rules and routing for enhanced alert management
Filter error alerts to make them relevant and actionable while minimizing noise
Get alerted when project error rate increases significantly, highlighting critical application issues
Set custom alerts, get notified on critical issues, and route alerts to code owners for intelligent incident management
Receive alerts on performance issues with configurable benchmarks and thresholds
Get alerted when previously fixed errors resurface in new releases
Analysis(6)
Search and segment real user performance data by release stage, device model, OS version and more for enhanced granularity
Segment and pivot errors based on custom diagnostic data with advanced filtering and search capabilities
Segment errors by custom attributes and user characteristics for granular analysis
One-click correlation between crashes and traces eliminates guesswork about what microservice caused failures
Understand error trends, pinpoint error spikes, investigate incidents, and determine if releases introduce new bugs with release annotations
Quickly compare multiple segments of performance data across multiple metrics for trend analysis
Analytics(4)
Understand how rapidly new app versions are being adopted across user base
Provides benchmarks and insights for application stability across the portfolio
Executive dashboard providing stability insights and trend analysis for each application with 30-day stability scores
Provides an immediate snapshot of app health with 30-day stability scores and trend analysis to determine when to ship versus when to fix
Collaboration(2)
Save searches easily with bookmarks and share them with the team to keep everyone aligned on priority issues
View what is assigned to each team member and mention other members for seamless collaboration
Cost Management(1)
Dynamic sampling and burst protection shield users from unexpected surges that would exceed quota or cause surprise bills
Customization(3)
Capture additional runtime data such as customer ID and subscription level to help with prioritization and debugging
Create custom filters to segment errors, with more filters available on premium and enterprise plans
Save go-to filters on the performance dashboard to access frequently analyzed segments
Data Management(1)
Customize how long BugSnag stores event data from 60 days to custom periods
Debugging(3)
Reproduce and fix errors quickly with automatically captured diagnostic data including stack traces, threads, breadcrumbs, device and user info
Upload mapping files like source maps, dSYMs, and ProGuard mappings to deobfuscate stack traces for clearer error diagnosis
Retrace all user interactions that occurred leading up to a crash for complete context
Deployment(3)
See if an error was promoted from beta to production for better release management
Meet enterprise privacy, security, and compliance requirements by hosting BugSnag on own infrastructure or cloud instance
See errors introduced in each release and compare release health to determine whether to promote or pull back
Feature Management(1)
Monitor errors happening in feature flags or experiments such as A/B tests to manage feature and experiment implementation
Goal Management(2)
Set custom benchmarks to measure and maintain the performance of applications
Set targets for critical stability and use real-time stability scores to determine whether to build features or fix bugs
Integration(8)
Access information about organization, projects, errors, and more to build custom integrations
Forward data to Splunk Cloud, On-Premises, and Amazon SQS for advanced analysis and integration
Support for 50+ platforms across mobile, web, desktop, and server applications
Integration with on-call solutions like PagerDuty and OpsGenie for incident management
Maintains data ownership by supporting OpenTelemetry (OTel) compatibility for flexible instrumentation alongside native SDKs
Integrations with GitHub, GitLab, and more allow viewing code used in versions and changes from previous versions
Send alerts to Slack, Microsoft Teams, Gitter, and other team communication platforms
Two-way integration with major issue tracking and project management tools including Jira and Pivotal
Monitoring(6)
Traces app starts, screen loads, network requests, and custom spans to reveal performance issues before customers encounter them
Automatically capture unhandled exceptions and track handled exceptions with full-stack error monitoring for mobile, web, desktop, and server applications
View the performance of individual endpoints and group network requests together to aggregate data and improve analysis
Automatically monitors key metrics like rendering performance, memory consumption, and CPU usage to spot latency and performance bottlenecks
Shows exactly how users are interacting with applications to understand real-world performance impact
Monitor CPU, memory, and rendering metrics to identify the most demanding parts of the application
Reporting(2)
Configure daily and weekly email reports summarizing application performance metrics
Configure daily and weekly email reports for error and performance summaries
Scalability(1)
Monitor an unlimited number of apps in one dashboard with unlimited projects
Security(7)
Securely manage provisioning and deprovisioning of users via SSO provider and automatically sync user attribute changes
Stay compliant with required certifications via BugSnag On-Premises
One-click sign-in via Okta, OneLogin, and other SAML providers
Detect and redact personally identifiable information (PII) post-ingestion, preventing it from being stored
Secure account access with two-factor authentication
Stay abreast of key actions taken by collaborators and ensure security of data
Configure the role of each collaborator to give them appropriate permissions to access projects and actions
Support(2)
Named CSM providing guided onboarding, implementation, and stability management best practices training
Fast and unlimited support from talented engineers
Triage(3)
Automatically prioritizes errors by severity and user impact to focus on what matters most to customers
Easy-to-use inbox showing bugs sorted by severity and user impact with search and filtering capabilities to help prioritize fixes
Snooze errors until they occur more frequently or ignore errors to reduce noise
Visualization(3)
Dashboards displaying breadcrumbs, stack traces, impacted users, affected devices, and project-level analytics to identify root causes faster
Customizable dashboard with app stability analytics, deep project-level insights, and custom error views
Displays every API call, database query, and microservice interaction without requiring timestamp or log correlation
Workflow(2)
Automatically triage each error to the correct team or individual based on defined rules to ensure no error is left unassigned
Automatically create and link issues to team's issue tracker project for errors in team's codebase
Pricing
Free
- ✓1 user
- ✓Error and performance monitoring
- ✓7.5K events and 1M spans per month
- ✓50+ platforms
- ✓30+ third-party integrations
- ✓7 days of data retention
Starter
- ✓Smaller teams starting to monitor their apps
- ✓50k to 3M monthly events options
- ✓1M to 150M monthly spans options
- ✓Error Monitoring
- ✓Choose your events
- ✓Performance Monitoring
- ✓Choose your spans
Preferred
Popular- ✓Larger teams that need deeper insights
- ✓100k to 3M monthly events options
- ✓1M to 300M monthly spans options
- ✓Unlimited users
- ✓End-to-end diagnostics
- ✓Basic notifications
- ✓Automatic error prioritization
- ✓Stability benchmarks
- ✓Advanced segmentation
- ✓Custom notifications
- ✓SAML single sign-on
- ✓System Metrics (CPU, Memory, Rendering)
Enterprise
- ✓Custom plans for enterprises that need to scale
- ✓Preferred plan features, plus:
- ✓Automatic error assignment
- ✓Premium support
- ✓Dedicated Customer Success Manager
- ✓Automatic user provisioning via SSO
- ✓Feature flags & experiments
- ✓On premises or SaaS deployment
- ✓Sensitive data management
- ✓Custom pricing and terms
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Integrations
15 known integrations