What is Backtrace?
It is the first debugging platform built for enterprise-grade software. It improves system availability, software quality and team efficiency by bringing automation to incident detection, response and resolution. The debugging platform automatically snapshots faulting applications and their surrounding environments then, analyzes and archives them in a centralized object store so bugs don't get missed and get fixed faster.
Backtrace is a tool in the Exception Monitoring category of a tech stack.
Backtrace is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Backtrace's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Backtrace?
Companies
3 companies reportedly use Backtrace in their tech stacks, including duobeiyun, Bwdotrtappdotio, and dev.
Developers
18 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Backtrace.
Backtrace Integrations
GitHub, Slack, Jira, Datadog, and PagerDuty are some of the popular tools that integrate with Backtrace. Here's a list of all 6 tools that integrate with Backtrace.
Backtrace's Features
- Automated capture, notification, and analysis of software errors for SREs/Ops and Developers
- Automated analysis crawls application state + code to give you a head start on root cause analysis
- Captures a rich data set which includes stacktrace across all threads, reachable variables, system information and much more
- Includes support for C/C++
- Powerful customizable graphs, visualizations, queries
- Custom grouping and classification
- Workflow Integration into Slack, HipChat, GitHub, JIRA, etc
- Completely extensible crash format and debugger
- Orders of magnitudes faster than today's debuggers
Backtrace Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Backtrace?
Sentry
Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health.
New Relic
The world’s best software and DevOps teams rely on New Relic to move faster, make better decisions and create best-in-class digital experiences. If you run software, you need to run New Relic. More than 50% of the Fortune 100 do too.
Kibana
Kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch. Kibana is a snap to setup and start using. Kibana strives to be easy to get started with, while also being flexible and powerful, just like Elasticsearch.
Grafana
Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins.
Amazon CloudWatch
It helps you gain system-wide visibility into resource utilization, application performance, and operational health. It retrieve your monitoring data, view graphs to help take automated action based on the state of your cloud environment.
