Errbit vs Honeybadger: What are the differences?

What is Errbit? The open source error catcher that's Airbrake API compliant. Errbit is a tool for collecting and managing errors from other applications. It is Airbrake (formerly known as Hoptoad) API compliant, so if you are already using Airbrake, you can just point the airbrake gem to your Errbit server.

What is Honeybadger? Honeybadger is the modern error management service for rails. Honeybadger does more than report errors, it helps you work with your team to fix them. Errors can be assigned. You can comment via email. And a fine-grained permissions system means you control who has access to each specific project.

Errbit and Honeybadger belong to "Exception Monitoring" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Errbit are:

• Your exceptions may contain sensitive data that you don't want sitting on someone else's server
• Your application is behind a firewall
• You'd like to brand your error catcher

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

• Collaboration tools for your team
• A blazing-fast error drill-down UI
• Tons of notification options

"Airbrake compliant" is the primary reason why developers consider Errbit over the competitors, whereas "Rails integration" was stated as the key factor in picking Honeybadger.

Errbit is an open source tool with 4.01K GitHub stars and 981 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Errbit's open source repository on GitHub.