What is Bugsink?
Bugsink is a self-hosted error tracking platform designed to help developers monitor and debug code failures in production environments. It provides detailed insights into errors by displaying stacktraces, code snippets, and local variables, enabling teams to quickly identify and resolve issues. The platform is fully compatible with Sentry's open-source SDKs for all major programming languages and frameworks, allowing for a seamless transition by simply updating the DSN configuration.
Bugsink offers flexible deployment options, allowing users to self-host on their own servers for full control and compliance or use a managed hosted service. The self-hosted version eliminates per-event billing, making it up to 80% cheaper than alternatives like Sentry at scale. Features include alerting, issue grouping, search capabilities with tags, and sourcemaps support to link minified code to original sources for better debugging.
Features
- Stacktrace Analysis: Displays stacktraces, code, and local variables to identify why code fails
- Sentry Compatibility: Fully compatible with Sentry's open-source SDKs for all major languages and frameworks
- Cost Efficiency: Self-hosted option eliminates per-event billing, saving up to 80% compared to hosted solutions
- Flexible Deployment: Supports both self-hosted and hosted plans with the ability to switch anytime
- Alerting System: Alerts users when something breaks without waiting for user reports
- Issue Grouping: Automatically groups related errors to manage problems efficiently
- Search and Tags: Allows searching by release, environment, user, and other parameters
- Sourcemaps Support: Links minified code to original sources for better debugging information
Use Cases
- Monitoring production code for failures and errors
- Debugging issues with detailed stacktrace and variable analysis
- Reducing costs on error tracking by self-hosting
- Integrating with existing Sentry SDKs for seamless error tracking
- Managing error events for development teams of any size
- Ensuring compliance and data isolation with self-hosted deployment
- Setting up alerts to proactively address code breaks
- Grouping and searching errors to prioritize fixes
FAQs
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How does Bugsink compare to Sentry?
Bugsink is fully compatible with Sentry's open-source SDKs, allowing a drop-in replacement by updating the DSN, and offers self-hosted options that can be up to 80% cheaper at scale. -
What deployment options does Bugsink support?
Bugsink supports both self-hosted deployment on your own servers and a managed hosted service, with the ability to switch between them anytime. -
Is there a free plan available?
Yes, Bugsink offers a free plan for single developers with managed hosting, alerts by email, 1 user, and 5K error events. -
What features are included in the self-hosted version?
The self-hosted version includes unlimited users, all features, unlimited error events, and options for premium or enterprise support. -
How quickly can I set up Bugsink?
You can set up a throw-away instance using Docker in minutes, with a default login of admin/admin, and start tracking errors immediately.
