BugSnag - Application Performance Monitoring

Key Features

• Error Monitoring

  Automatically captures unhandled exceptions and allows reporting of handled exceptions with grouping by root cause.

• Performance Monitoring

  Tracks metrics including app start, screen loads, and web vitals through the use of spans.

• Distributed Tracing

  Provides end-to-end visibility across microservices and API calls to help identify performance bottlenecks.

• Stability Center

  Calculates 30-day stability scores and trend analysis to help teams gauge overall application health.

• Crash Diagnostics

  Includes stack traces, threads, and user interaction breadcrumbs to help reproduce errors.

• OpenTelemetry Compatibility

  Supports OpenTelemetry standards, which helps users maintain ownership of their instrumentation data.

Use Cases

• Release Stability Monitoring

  Comparing the health of different releases to determine if a version should be promoted to production or pulled back.

• Error Prioritization

  Using user impact and severity data to help decide which bugs to fix first.

• Root Cause Analysis

  Using breadcrumbs and diagnostic metadata to retrace user steps leading up to a crash.

• Performance Bottleneck Identification

  Monitoring CPU, memory, and rendering usage to identify demanding parts of an application.

Integrations

• Slack
• Microsoft Teams
• Jira
• PagerDuty
• GitHub
• GitLab
• Splunk
• Amazon SQS

FAQ

Who is BugSnag designed for?

BugSnag is designed for software companies and development teams that need to monitor errors and performance across mobile, web, desktop, and server applications.

Does BugSnag have a free version?

Yes, BugSnag offers a free plan for solo users, which includes a 7-day data retention limit.

What is the difference between the Select and Preferred plans?

The Select plan starts at $20/month and provides basic notifications, while the Preferred plan starts at $33/month and includes automatic error prioritization, stability benchmarks, and SAML SSO.