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Bugsnag vs Crashlytics: What are the differences?
Bugsnag: Bugsnag provides production error monitoring and management for front-end, mobile and back-end applications. Bugsnag captures errors from your web, mobile and back-end applications, providing instant visibility into user impact. Diagnostic data and tools are included to help your team prioritize, debug and fix exceptions fast; Crashlytics: The world's most powerful, yet lightest weight crash reporting solution. Free for everybody. Instead of just showing you the stack trace, Crashlytics performs deep analysis of each and every thread. We de-prioritize lines that don't matter while highlighting the interesting ones. This makes reading stack traces easier, faster, and far more useful! Crashlytics' intelligent grouping can take 50,000 crashes, distill them down to 20 unique issues, and then tell you which 3 are the most important to fix.
Bugsnag can be classified as a tool in the "Exception Monitoring" category, while Crashlytics is grouped under "Mobile Error Monitoring".
Some of the features offered by Bugsnag are:
- Root cause error grouping
- Support for over 50 languages and platforms including JavaScript, iOS, Android, Python, Ruby and Java
- Real-time alerting to chat, email or SMS
On the other hand, Crashlytics provides the following key features:
- Instead of just showing you the stack trace, Crashlytics performs deep analysis of each and every thread. We de-prioritize lines that don't matter while highlighting the interesting ones. This makes reading stack traces easier, faster, and far more useful!
- Crashlytics' intelligent grouping can take 50,000 crashes, distill them down to 20 unique issues, and then tell you which 3 are the most important to fix.
- Now you'll get precise information on the performance of the devices that your apps run on. We'll let you know if the crash only happens on a specific model or generation of a device. We'll even tell you other information, like whether your app only crashes in landscape mode, or whether the proximity sensor is always on.
"Lots of 3rd party integrations" is the primary reason why developers consider Bugsnag over the competitors, whereas "Crash tracking" was stated as the key factor in picking Crashlytics.
According to the StackShare community, Crashlytics has a broader approval, being mentioned in 350 company stacks & 68 developers stacks; compared to Bugsnag, which is listed in 295 company stacks and 47 developer stacks.
I am also considering Logstash.
I want to add a remote debugging tool for my application, and my application is currently live in 10 countries. So, the scale is quite big. Can you help me choose the best client-side debugging tool? Also, are there any tools available in the market that provide 3rd party server integration too?
BugfenderBugfender is mainly focused on getting the application logs, which is very useful for debugging and reproducing errors reported by users. Also has a "user feedback" option, that lets you get feedback from your users and get the application logs alongside it. Bugsnag and Crashlytics are more focused on "error analytics", mostly crashes, and they're more advanced in terms of analytics and detection of trends in crashes. I hope I helped! Disclaimer: I'm one of the founders of Bugfender.
BugsnagBugsnag is one of my favorite tools. I must admit that I can't compare with the other two variants, because I only have experience with Sentry and Bugsnag. Both are fine, but I lean towards Bugsnag. With the help of Bugsnag I'm able to see quite clearly what went wrong, and it shows the affected users (and in my case even the tenant as we're operating a multi-tenant application).
Regarding Logstash: I've been using Bugsnag as a complementary tool with Logging + APM platforms like NewRelic or Datadog. What I mean is, go for Logstash if that's the log monitoring tool you like, but Bugsnag and Logstash are not interchangeable, and it perfectly makes sense to use both.
Pros of Bugsnag
- Lots of 3rd party integrations45
- Really reliable42
- Includes a free plan37
- No usage or rate limits25
- Design23
- Slack integration21
- Responsive support21
- Free tier19
- Unlimited11
- No Rate6
- Email notifications5
- Great customer support3
- React Native3
- Integrates well with Laravel3
- Reliable, great UI and insights, used for all our apps3
Pros of Crashlytics
- Crash tracking78
- Mobile exception tracking56
- Free53
- Easy deployment37
- Ios25
- Great ui15
- Great reports11
- Android10
- Advanced Logging8
- Monitor Tester Lifecycle7
- Mac APP and IDE Plugins3
- Great User Experience3
- In Real-Time3
- iOS SDK3
- Security3
- Android SDK3
- The UI is simple and it just works2
- Best UI2
- Light2
- Real-time2
- Seamless2
- Painless App Distribution2
- Crash Reporting2
- Beta distribution2
- Mobile Analytics2
- Deep Workflow Integration2
- IOS QA Deploy and tracking1
- Easy iOS Integration1
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Cons of Bugsnag
- Error grouping doesn't always work1
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