Airbrake vs Librato

Airbrake vs Librato: What are the differences?

What is Airbrake? Airbrake captures and groups errors in Ruby, iOS, Django, PHP & more. Airbrake collects errors for your applications in all major languages and frameworks. We alert you to new errors and give you critical context, trends and details needed to find and fix errors fast.

What is Librato? Real-Time Cloud Monitoring. Librato provides a complete solution for monitoring and understanding the metrics that impact your business at all levels of the stack. We provide everything you need to visualize, analyze, and actively alert on the metrics that matter to you.

Airbrake can be classified as a tool in the "Exception Monitoring" category, while Librato is grouped under "Performance Monitoring".

Some of the features offered by Airbrake are:

• Dupe Detection- Developers will only receive an email once when an error occurs — rather than getting buried under an error email avalanche.
• Auto Resolve- An action on each application deployment — that way developers can focus on the problems that exist today, not the ones from last month.
• Github Aware- Airbrake is github-aware, and can link code in your Airbrake error stack traces to the corresponding locations on github.

On the other hand, Librato provides the following key features:

• REST API accepts any metrics you define
• Turnkey integration with AWS, Heroku, collectd, and more
• Integrates with more than 100 open-source agents, and language bindings

"Reliable" is the top reason why over 26 developers like Airbrake, while over 13 developers mention "Easy setup" as the leading cause for choosing Librato.

According to the StackShare community, Airbrake has a broader approval, being mentioned in 91 company stacks & 22 developers stacks; compared to Librato, which is listed in 61 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.