About Rollbar
Rollbar is a commercial service for finding and fixing errors in software running in production. The vendor describes it as code-first observability: it starts from the code that is running, connects errors, session replays and releases in one place, and points developers to the code behind each error.
Error Monitoring, Session Replay and deploy tracking are installed through an SDK in minutes. Rollbar Resolve is an agent that reads the code around a chosen error, writes a fix in an isolated environment, runs the tests and opens a pull request for a person to review. A second product line, Rollbar Lines, works through team tickets on virtual machines on the customer's own systems and returns tested pull requests. Rollbar is proprietary and vendor-hosted. The vendor says plans start at no cost, with a 14-day free trial, and it publishes a pricing page.
Key features
- Error monitoring with grouping and alerts
- Session replay linked to errors
- Deploy and release tracking
- Resolve agent that opens tested pull requests
- Rollbar Lines for working through ticket backlogs
- SDKs that install in minutes
Good fit for
- →Triaging production exceptions
- →Automating fixes for recurring errors
- Tags
- error-tracking
- error-monitoring
- session-replay
- observability
- ai-agents
- debugging
- saas
Rollbar: questions and answers
- What is Rollbar used for?
- Rollbar is an error monitoring and session replay service that groups production errors and can draft tested pull requests to fix them. It is a good fit for triaging production exceptions and automating fixes for recurring errors.
- Is Rollbar free?
- Yes. Rollbar has a free plan. A free plan covers 5K occurrences a month. Essentials and Advanced scale with event volume (their prices are not shown in the page text); Enterprise is custom. A 14-day full-access trial is offered.
- Is Rollbar open source?
- No. Rollbar is proprietary (closed-source) software. Open-source alternatives to Rollbar include Sentry, Highlight.io and HyperDX.
- What are some alternatives to Rollbar?
- Rollbar competes with Sentry, Bugsnag and Airbrake. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Rollbar alternatives.
Open-source alternatives to Rollbar
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Sentry
Monitoring & Observability
Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring
OSSvs Rollbar★ 45k
Highlight.io
Monitoring & Observability
Highlight gives your team full transparency into the errors, interactions, and performance
OSSvs Sentry★ 9.4k
HyperDX
Monitoring & Observability
Resolve production issues, fast. An open source observability platform unifying session re
MITvs Datadog★ 9.9k
Sentry
Monitoring & Observability
How you can run all of Sentry on your own server, without paying anything.
OSSvs Sentry★ 9.6k
Traceway
Monitoring & Observability
The only tool you need to know what is happening and how to fix it.
MITvs Datadog★ 1.6k
Exceptionless
Monitoring & Observability
Exceptionless application
Apache-2.0vs Sentry★ 2.5k
SaaS alternatives to Rollbar
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Sentry
Monitoring & Observability
Sentry is an error tracking and application performance monitoring platform that helps developers find, trace and fix problems in web, mobile and backend code.
SaaS
Bugsnag
Monitoring & Observability
Error monitoring and stability scoring for web and mobile apps
SaaS
Airbrake
Monitoring & Observability
Error and performance monitoring for application exceptions
SaaS
Raygun
Monitoring & Observability
Crash reporting, real user monitoring and APM for web and mobile apps
SaaS
Honeybadger
Monitoring & Observability
Error tracking, uptime checks and cron monitoring for developers
SaaS
Firebase Crashlytics
Monitoring & Observability
Real-time crash reporting for mobile apps from Firebase
SaaS

