Alternatives to GlitchTip
Open-source error tracking, Sentry-SDK compatible.
GlitchTip ranks #3 of 7 in Error monitoring, with an Alt Score of 83. It is licensed under MIT License, open source with paid hosting from $15/month and available on the web. 13 of 13 checklist rows are verified against a public source.
GlitchTip is an open-source error tracking platform compatible with Sentry SDKs, with uptime monitoring; self-hostable or hosted.
Development teams that want Sentry-style error tracking and uptime monitoring without vendor lock-in — from solo developers on a free hosted plan to organizations that must self-host for cost, privacy, or compliance (HIPAA, EU data residency) reasons.
An open-source (MIT), Sentry-API-compatible error tracking platform that groups and deduplicates errors into issues, resolves source maps to readable stack traces, tracks releases, monitors uptime, ingests structured application logs, and now includes transaction/span-based performance monitoring (p50/p95, N+1 detection) — with alerting via email, Slack-compatible webhooks, Discord, Microsoft Teams, and other chat tools, plus an MCP server for AI-assisted analysis.
You install a standard Sentry SDK (available for 20+ languages/frameworks including JavaScript, Python, Ruby, PHP, Go, Java, Rust, and mobile/React Native/Flutter) into your app and point its DSN at either the hosted GlitchTip SaaS (app.glitchtip.com or the EU instance) or your own self-hosted Docker/Kubernetes deployment; errors, performance traces, and logs then flow into the GlitchTip dashboard where you triage issues, view stack traces and breadcrumbs, and configure alerts.
Where GlitchTip stands out
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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.
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.
Airbrake is an error and performance monitoring tool that captures exceptions with context and integrates with developer workflows.
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 GlitchTip is verified against its own pages. Each alternative is sourced on its own page.
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License MIT License verified 2026-07-17
Read the actual LICENSE file at the raw GitLab URL (not a badge). README.md also states: "With our MIT license, you can use it for anything you'd like and even sell it."
MIT License Copyright (c) 2019 GlitchTip
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Pricing model OSS + paid hosting verified 2026-07-17
Free, unlimited self-hosting (MIT-licensed source) plus a paid hosted SaaS with Free/Small/Medium/Large tiers.
Hosted version / Sign up at app.glitchtip.com / Self-hosted version / Run on your own server / Free / For Personal Projects / Up to 1,000 events/mo
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Starts at $15/month verified 2026-07-17
Cheapest paid hosted cloud tier is 'Small' at $15/month (billed monthly). The Free hosted tier is $0 with 1,000 events/mo; self-hosting is entirely free.
Small ... For small teams ... Up to 100k events/mo ... $15 / month
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Platforms Web verified 2026-07-17
GlitchTip is a web dashboard/SaaS (hosted at app.glitchtip.com/eu.glitchtip.com) or self-hosted via Docker/Kubernetes; not a native desktop/mobile app. SDKs integrate into customer applications but Gl
GlitchTip can be run with Docker. We recommend Docker Compose, PikaPods, Elestio, Nodion, Railway, or RepoCloud. A Helm chart is available for Kubernetes.
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Status active verified 2026-07-17
GitLab commit history shows active daily development (latest commit 2026-07-16, one day before this research). Documentation also describes recently-added features (Logs, MCP AI Integration, CLI Beta)
Merge branch 'chore/staging-bumps' into 'master' ... 2026-07-16
https://gitlab.com/glitchtip/glitchtip-backend/-/commits/master -
Open source Yes verified 2026-07-17
MIT License Copyright (c) 2019 GlitchTip
https://gitlab.com/glitchtip/glitchtip-backend/-/raw/master/LICENSE -
Self-hostable Yes verified 2026-07-17
GlitchTip can be run with Docker. We recommend Docker Compose, PikaPods, Elestio, Nodion, Railway, or RepoCloud. A Helm chart is available for Kubernetes.
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Error grouping / deduplication Yes verified 2026-07-17
Your web app can send any errors it encounters to GlitchTip, which will notify you and record the error as an issue so you can see the details.
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Source maps / stack traces Yes verified 2026-07-17
For JavaScript projects, upload source maps to get readable stack traces. Use the GlitchTip CLI (Beta) to inject debug IDs and upload source maps
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Release tracking Yes verified 2026-07-17
Confirmed also by self-host config docs: GLITCHTIP_RELEASE_RETENTION_DAYS (default 365, 'Release retention') and glitchtip-cli sourcemaps upload --org --project on the error-tracking page, which assoc
Events measure four GlitchTip features: Issues (each occurrence of an error reported), Uptime (each status check of your app), Performance (each transaction report for tracked activity), and Releases
https://glitchtip.com/pricing -
Session replay No verified 2026-07-17
The documentation's full feature-guide list (and every individual feature/doc page fetched: error-tracking, performance, uptime-monitoring, logs, integrations, install, home) contains no mention of se
Feature guides / Quick guides to get GlitchTip up and running for your web app. / Error Tracking / SDK Integration / Performance Monitoring / Uptime Monitoring / Logs / Integrations / MCP (AI Integrat
https://glitchtip.com/documentation -
Performance / APM Yes verified 2026-07-17
SURPRISE: contrary to GlitchTip's 'lightweight, errors-only' reputation, it now has a dedicated Performance Monitoring feature (transactions, spans, p50/p95, N+1 query detection via DuckDB cold storag
GlitchTip captures transaction and span data from your applications, helping you identify slow endpoints and performance regressions. ... Navigate to the Performance page in GlitchTip to see transacti
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Alerting integrations (Slack/PagerDuty) Partial verified 2026-07-17
webhook", _("General Slack-compatible webhook") DISCORD = "discord", _("Discord") GOOGLE_CHAT = "googlechat", _("Google Chat webhook") NTFY = "ntfy", _("ntfy") MICRO" — GlitchTip supports Email plus a 'General Slack-compatible webhook', Discord, Google Chat, Microsoft Teams, ntfy, Zulip, and Feishu alert recipients (per source code recipient-type enum) — Slack is cov
GENERAL_WEBHOOK =
https://gitlab.com/glitchtip/glitchtip-backend/-/raw/master/apps/alerts/constants.py -
Issue-tracker integration (Jira/GitHub) No verified 2026-07-17
The dedicated Integrations doc page lists only GitLab Error Tracking (linking GitLab's built-in error tracking to GlitchTip) and a Grafana data source — no Jira or GitHub issue-tracker (ticket creatio
GlitchTip aims to be Sentry API compatible. Anything that works with Sentry should also work with GlitchTip. The following integrations have been verified to work. Please considering adding more. / Gi
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SDK language coverage Yes verified 2026-07-17
GlitchTip is Sentry-SDK compatible and its SDK docs list 20+ languages/frameworks (C#, Electron, Elixir, Go, Java/Android/Log4j/Logback, JS/Angular/React/Next.js/Vue, Native C/C++, Node.js/Express/Koa
C# ... Elixir ... Go ... Java ... JavaScript / Angular / React / Next.js / Vue ... Node.js ... PHP / Laravel / Symfony / Drupal ... Python / Django / FastAPI / Flask ... React-Native ... Flutter ... R
https://glitchtip.com/sdkdocs -
User / breadcrumb context Yes verified 2026-07-17
GlitchTip ingests standard Sentry SDK envelopes, which include breadcrumb and user-context data by default; the Logs doc page confirms correlated context: "Logs that include a trace_id are linked to t
After you have create a GlitchTip account, you will need to install a SDK in order to connect your project to GlitchTip so that your site can report events to us.
https://glitchtip.com/sdkdocs -
Data retention (free) Yes verified 2026-07-17
Value "yes" reflects that hosted retention is a defined, real capability: 90 days (applies across hosted plans, including Free). Self-hosted retention is separately configurable (GLITCHTIP_RETENTION_D
Data Retention: Event data is automatically purged after 90 days.
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Free tier event limit Yes verified 2026-07-17
Value "yes" reflects a defined free-tier limit: 1,000 events/mo, plus unlimited projects and unlimited team members on the Free hosted plan. Self-hosting has no event limit (free/unlimited, operator-c
Free / For Personal Projects / Up to 1,000 events/mo / Error tracking / Unlimited projects / Unlimited team members / Free ($0)
https://glitchtip.com/pricing
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 and Rollbar — every license claim links its source.