How to Build Your Own BugSnag
Replace BugSnag with a custom build. Snag bugs instantly. Squash them faster. Ship with confidence.
Build Difficulty: 4/5
A few focused days to build a solid replacement
Estimated Timeline
Based on 67 features at Few Days difficulty, expect about 3-5 days with AI-assisted development.
Recommended Tech Stack
Full-stack React framework with API routes and server components
PostgreSQL database, auth, and real-time subscriptions
Utility-first styling for rapid UI development
Key Features to Replicate
Top features across 8 categories. See all 67 features
Integration(8 features)
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
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Security(7 features)
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
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Alerting(6 features)
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
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Analysis(6 features)
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
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Monitoring(6 features)
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
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Analytics(4 features)
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
Customization(3 features)
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
Debugging(3 features)
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
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