Errbit vs Opbeat: What are the differences?

Developers describe Errbit as "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. On the other hand, Opbeat is detailed as "Application monitoring for developers". Opbeat is application monitoring for developers, and gives you performance metrics, error logging, release tracking and workflow in one smart product.

Errbit and Opbeat can be primarily classified as "Exception Monitoring" tools.

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, Opbeat provides the following key features:

• Application performance metrics
• Error logging with smart grouping
• Code integration - stacktraces annotated with code authors for faster debugging and coordination

"Airbrake compliant" is the primary reason why developers consider Errbit over the competitors, whereas "Free for small teams" was stated as the key factor in picking Opbeat.

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.