Alternatives to Airbrake
Error and performance monitoring for web and mobile apps.
Airbrake ranks #6 of 7 in Error monitoring, with an Alt Score of 76. It is proprietary and available on the web. 13 of 13 checklist rows are verified against a public source.
Airbrake is an error and performance monitoring tool that captures exceptions with context and integrates with developer workflows.
Software teams — especially Ruby, JavaScript, Python, PHP, Java, Go, and .NET developers — who want straightforward, usage-priced error and performance monitoring without complex per-seat licensing. It suits teams that want deploy-aware error tracking bundled with basic APM, from solo/side-project developers on the free Dev tier up to larger orgs on higher-volume paid tiers.
A hosted dashboard that captures real-time error alerts with backtraces, source-map-resolved stack traces, error grouping, and breadcrumb context, plus Application Performance Monitoring (Apdex scores, response times, error rates by route) across 50+ supported languages and frameworks. Plans include deploy tracking and integrations with tools like Slack, Jira, GitHub, and Zapier, billed on a usage-based model (errors/APM events per month) starting at $19/month, with a limited always-free Dev tier (7,500 errors and 50,000 APM events/month, 7-day retention).
Developers install a language-specific Airbrake notifier library (e.g. airbrake-ruby, airbrake-js) that automatically captures unhandled exceptions and performance events and reports them to Airbrake's cloud service. Errors are grouped and shown in a web dashboard where teams triage issues, track which deploys introduced or fixed errors, and route notifications to tools like Slack, Jira, or GitHub.
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Ranked alternatives
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Sentry is an application monitoring platform for error tracking, performance tracing, and session replay across many languages and frameworks; open source with a hosted cloud.
BugSnag is an error monitoring and application stability platform that captures crashes and errors with diagnostics and stability scores; now part of SmartBear.
GlitchTip is an open-source error tracking platform compatible with Sentry SDKs, with uptime monitoring; self-hostable or hosted.
Honeybadger is an application health monitoring tool combining error tracking, uptime monitoring, and cron/check-in monitoring.
Rollbar is a real-time error monitoring platform with automatic grouping, deploy tracking, and workflow integrations across many languages.
Feature comparison
Rows come from the Error monitoring checklist (17 rows). Human-verified cells only. ? means the value has not been verified.
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Every fact and feature listed for Airbrake is verified against its own pages. Each alternative is sourced on its own page.
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License Proprietary verified 2026-07-17
The Airbrake platform (hosted dashboard/service) is closed-source commercial SaaS. Its client notifier libraries (e.g. airbrake-ruby, airbrake-js) are separately released as OSS under the MIT license;
Airbrake - A LogicMonitor Company - © 2024 - All Rights Reserved
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Pricing model Usage-based verified 2026-07-17
Flexible Usage-Based Pricing
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Starts at $19/month verified 2026-07-17
Monthly pricing plans start at $19/month for 25,000 errors.
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Platforms Web verified 2026-07-17
Airbrake is a hosted web dashboard (SaaS); language SDK notifiers instrument apps but the product surface itself is Web.
Account & Billing section of your Airbrake Dashboard
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Status acquired verified 2026-07-17
Airbrake continues to operate as a distinct, actively maintained product/brand (own pricing, docs, and site, copyright footer dated 2024-2026) under LogicMonitor ownership.
In 2021 LogicMonitor, the unified observability platform, acquired Airbrake.
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Open source No verified 2026-07-17
Airbrake is a paid commercial SaaS product, not released under an open-source license. (Its client notifier libraries are separately MIT-licensed OSS; see license note.)
Starting a new account requires a valid email and credit card. Cancel risk free any time during your free trial.
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Self-hostable No verified 2026-07-17
Airbrake is described throughout its docs and pricing as a hosted service billed via account/credit-card; no self-hosted or on-premise deployment option is advertised.
As an Error Monitoring and Application Performance Monitoring service, Airbrake provides continuous monitoring of your entire application stack with real-time alerts.
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Error grouping / deduplication Yes verified 2026-07-17
Airbrake groups errors by looking at a few specific parameters like the error message and the file where the error occurred.
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Source maps / stack traces Yes verified 2026-07-17
Public source maps are a core feature available on all paid plans along with private source maps.
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Release tracking Yes verified 2026-07-17
Deploy Tracking with Airbrake gives insight into the relationship between your deploys and your errors.
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Session replay No verified 2026-07-17
This is Airbrake's complete official Features list (docs sidebar, repeated across docs pages); session replay does not appear anywhere in Airbrake's docs sitemap or feature list.
Aggregations App versions Backtrace links Breadcrumbs CLI Capture for IT/DevOps Use Code insights Custom source map URLs Daily and weekly digest emails Deleting and muting errors Deploy tracking Deplo
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Performance / APM Yes verified 2026-07-17
Airbrake Performance Monitoring gives developers the insight they NEED to understand how code is performing in production and measure its impact on users.
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Alerting integrations (Slack/PagerDuty) Partial verified 2026-07-17
Native Slack integration is confirmed (docs.airbrake.io/docs/integrations/slack/: 'With Airbrake's Slack integration, you can: Automatically receive a Slack notification with error details...'). Pager
Integrate with your favorite apps Bitbucket ... GitHub ... Gitlab ... Jira ... LogRocket ... Okta ... OneLogin ... PivotalTracker ... Slack ... Trello ... Webhooks ... Zapier
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Issue-tracker integration (Jira/GitHub) Yes verified 2026-07-17
GitHub issue-tracker integration is also natively supported; see https://docs.airbrake.io/docs/integrations/github/ , verbatim: 'With Airbrake's GitHub integration, you can: Automatically create GitHu
With Airbrake's JIRA integration, you can: Automatically create JIRA issue with error details for every new type of an error
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SDK language coverage Yes verified 2026-07-17
With support for over 50 languages, frameworks, and libraries, Airbrake notifiers install in minutes, are agentless and serverless, and have negligible impact on your code or application performance.
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User / breadcrumb context Yes verified 2026-07-17
Breadcrumbs are a snapshot of events that lead up to a specific error occurrence. ... This feature is available on all current plans.
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Data retention (free) Yes verified 2026-07-17
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Free tier event limit Yes verified 2026-07-17
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FAQ
Yes. Sentry, BugSnag and Honeybadger have a free tier or are fully free. Free-tier limits in the comparison table are verified and dated.
Sentry, GlitchTip and Rollbar — every license claim links its source.