Rollbar
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How to Replace RollbarOverview
Features
44 features across 16 categories
AI(1)
AI agent that reviews code, identifies what's breaking, and opens a pull request with a fix automatically
API(1)
Full REST API for custom integrations and programmatic access
Account Management(2)
Create and manage unlimited projects within your account
Add unlimited users to your Rollbar account
Alerting(4)
Intelligent alerting system that adapts to your team's needs and reduces false positives
Receive real-time notifications via Slack, email, webhook, and on-call tools like PagerDuty, VictorOps, OpsGenie
Intelligent notification system that filters noise and prioritizes important issues
Temporarily snooze error notifications to reduce noise during known issues
Analytics(3)
Analyze impacted users, regions, browsers, and other contextual metadata
Query language and metrics API for custom data analysis and investigation
Automatically identify similar and co-occurring errors
Compliance(3)
GDPR compliant data handling and processing
Business Associate Agreement (BAA) for HIPAA compliance with custom options
SOC2 and ISO27001 certified for security and compliance
Configuration(1)
Customize rate limits to control event ingestion
Dashboard(1)
Comprehensive dashboard to monitor your application's health and error trends
Debugging(2)
Support for source maps, symbolication, and ProGuard for better error context
Detailed stack traces, request and custom parameters, local variable values, and comprehensive telemetry data
Deployment(2)
Resolve errors by tracking which commits fixed them
Integration with GitHub Actions, CircleCI, and other CI/CD tools to track deploys and versions
Integration(7)
Automatically resolve issue tickets when the error is resolved in Rollbar
Forward Rollbar data to Datadog for additional analysis and monitoring
Auto-create issue tickets in Jira, Asana, Pivotal Tracker, and other project management tools
Advanced protocol for deep investigation and integration with modern development tools
SDKs for JavaScript, iOS, Node.js, Python, Java, Go, .NET, PHP, Django, Rails, React, React Native, Next.js and more
Integration with GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket to view source code and track code changes
Infrastructure-as-code support via Terraform provider for Rollbar configuration
Monitoring(5)
Monitor errors across multiple projects in a single feed
Real-time error detection that shows the moment something breaks, groups similar issues automatically, and helps pinpoint the cause fast
Automatically groups similar issues to reduce noise and help teams focus on unique problems
View a real-time feed of all errors happening in your application
Create and save custom views to filter and monitor specific errors or patterns
Organization(2)
Add unlimited custom fields and tags to categorize and organize errors
Link errors to related services and dependencies
Replay(1)
Watch what actually happened in the browser right next to related errors, rewind any user journey to understand how frontend issues unfolded
Security(7)
Comprehensive audit controls for enterprise security requirements
Basic single sign-on via Google and GitHub
Disk-based encryption at rest for data security
Advanced security controls for enterprise deployments
Single sign-on via SAML with support for Okta, Azure, and other identity providers
Automated user provisioning and deprovisioning via SCIM
Two-factor authentication for enhanced account security
Team Management(2)
Assign errors to the right team members automatically based on ownership
Watch specific errors and assign them to team members
Pricing
Free
- ✓5K occurrences + 1K sessions per month
- ✓Real-time feed and alerts
- ✓Intelligent error grouping
- ✓Stack traces and telemetry
- ✓Deploy and version tracking
- ✓SDKs for server, client, & mobile
- ✓Unlimited projects
- ✓Unlimited users
- ✓REST API + Terraform provider
- ✓Account dashboard
- ✓Real-time alerts via Slack, email, webhook
- ✓Contextual metadata: impacted users, regions, browsers
- ✓Watch and assign errors
- ✓Auto-create issue tickets in Jira, Asana, Pivotal Tracker
- ✓Auto-resolve tickets
- ✓Source maps, symbolication support
- ✓View source code via GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
- ✓Track deploys via GitHub Actions, CircleCI
- ✓Versions tracking
- ✓Similar and co-occurring errors
- ✓Unlimited custom fields / tags
- ✓Two-factor authentication
- ✓Disk-based encryption at rest
- ✓GDPR compliance
- ✓Basic SSO via Google and GitHub
- ✓Email and chat support
- ✓30 days maximum data retention
- ✓1 service link per project
Essentials
- ✓Everything in Free, plus
- ✓10K - 50M occurrences per month
- ✓5K - 25M sessions per month
- ✓Data retention up to 90 days
- ✓Fine grained rate limiting
- ✓Real-time alerts via on-call tools like PagerDuty, VictorOps, OpsGenie
- ✓Forward Rollbar data to Datadog
- ✓Snooze Items
- ✓Cross-project event feed
- ✓Saved Views
- ✓1 service link per project
- ✓Overage budgets with on-demand occurrences and sessions
- ✓Customizable rate limits
Advanced
- ✓Everything in Essentials, plus
- ✓25K - 50M occurrences per month
- ✓5K - 25M sessions per month
- ✓Data retention up to 180 days
- ✓Adaptive alerts
- ✓Rollbar Analyze: RQL + Metrics API
- ✓SCIM provisioning
- ✓5 service links per project
- ✓SAML SSO via Okta, Azure, and more
- ✓Priority support
Enterprise
- ✓For enterprise teams requiring more than 80M events
- ✓Everything in Advanced, plus
- ✓Custom occurrence and session volumes
- ✓Direct Slack channel
- ✓Priority support and SLAs
- ✓High volume capabilities
- ✓Fully custom data retention
- ✓Unlimited service links per project
- ✓Custom BAA for HIPAA
- ✓Enterprise security controls
- ✓Audit controls
- ✓Dedicated customer success manager
- ✓Onboarding concierge
- ✓Custom SLAs
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Integrations
17 known integrations