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Errorception vs Sentry: What are the differences?

# Errorception vs. Sentry

Errorception and Sentry are both error tracking tools used for monitoring errors and performance issues in web applications. However, they have key differences that set them apart.

1. **Deployment**: Errorception requires a manual installation process by adding a snippet of code to the website, while Sentry offers more flexible deployment options including self-hosted on-premise solutions or using their cloud-based service.

2. **Error Monitoring**: Errorception primarily focuses on front-end JavaScript errors, while Sentry provides comprehensive error monitoring for both frontend and backend services, including support for multiple programming languages and frameworks.

3. **Performance Monitoring**: Sentry includes performance monitoring capabilities such as transaction tracing to identify bottlenecks in the application, whereas Errorception focuses solely on error tracking without performance monitoring features.

4. **Integrations**: Sentry offers a wide range of integrations with popular tools and services such as Slack, Jira, and GitHub, allowing for seamless collaboration and workflow automation, whereas Errorception has fewer integrations available.

5. **Alerting and Notifications**: Errorception provides basic alerting and notifications for errors, whereas Sentry offers more advanced alerting options including customizable thresholds, alert rules, and real-time alerts to notify developers of critical issues immediately.

6. **User Feedback**: Sentry allows for collecting user feedback directly from error reports, enabling developers to gather more insights into the root cause of errors, while Errorception lacks this user feedback feature, making it harder to understand the context of errors reported.

In Summary, Errorception and Sentry differ in deployment options, error monitoring capabilities, performance monitoring features, integrations, alerting/notification mechanisms, and user feedback collection.
Decisions about Errorception and Sentry

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 Errorception
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      Consolidates similar errors and makes resolution easy
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      Email Notifications
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      Open source
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      Slack integration
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      Github integration
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      Easy
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      User-friendly interface
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      The most important tool we use in production
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      Hipchat integration
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      Heroku Integration
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      Good documentation
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      Free tier
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      Self-hosted
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      Easy setup
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      Realiable
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      Provides context, and great stack trace
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      Feedback form on error pages
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      Gitlab integration
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      Filter by custom tags
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      Super user friendly
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      Captures local variables at each frame in backtraces
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      Easy Integration
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        Confusing UI
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      What is Errorception?

      Errorception is a simple and painless way to find out about JavaScript errors, as they occur in your users' browsers. All you need to do is insert a script tag on your page, and you will start recording errors as they happen in real-time.

      What is Sentry?

      Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health.

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