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Errbit vs TrackJS: 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 TrackJS? JavaScript Error Monitoring for Modern Web Applications. Production error monitoring and reporting for web applications. TrackJS provides deep insights into real user errors. See the user, network, and application events that tell the story of an error so you can actually fix them.

Errbit and TrackJS 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, TrackJS provides the following key features:

  • Telemetry Timeline: More than just an error. The Telemetry Timeline shows the user, network, and console events that preceded an error, like an airplane's BlackBox for your webapp.
  • Realtime Dashboard: Compare the hits and errors for your webapp over time. See if a recent change is causing failures, and where to prioritize debugging.
  • Intelligence Alerting: Get notified when issues important to you are happening, right to your email or chat room.

"Airbrake compliant" is the primary reason why developers consider Errbit over the competitors, whereas "Great error reporting" was stated as the key factor in picking TrackJS.

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.

Decisions about Errbit and TrackJS

I essentially inherited a Shopify theme that was originally created by an agency. After discovering a number of errors being thrown in the Dev Console just by scrolling through the website, I needed more visibility over any errors happening in the field. Having used both Sentry and TrackJS, I always got lost in the TrackJS interface, so I felt more comfortable introducing Sentry. The Sentry free tier is also very generous, although it turns out the theme threw over 15k errors in less than a week.

I highly recommend setting up error tracking from day one. Theoretically, you should never need to upgrade from the free tier if you're keeping on top of the errors...

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Pros of Errbit
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    Airbrake compliant
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    Easy setup
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    Open source
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    Slack integration
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    Consolidates similar errors
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    Great to detect intrusion tentative, bugs,.
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    Consolidates similar errors and makes resolution easy
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    Heroku Integration
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    Hipchat integration
  • 12
    Great error reporting
  • 2
    Great experience. Neat reporting
  • 2
    Awesome engineer support
  • 2
    Easy Setup
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    Telemetry Timeline
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    Realtime alerts
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    Slack Integration
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What is Errbit?

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 TrackJS?

Production error monitoring and reporting for web applications. TrackJS provides deep insights into real user errors. See the user, network, and application events that tell the story of an error so you can actually fix them.

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    What are some alternatives to Errbit and TrackJS?
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    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.
    Sentry
    Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health.
    Errbot
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