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Error monitoring & tracking tool that helps software developers, DevOps, QA, and Support engineers release better quality code faster. Instrument Rollbar SDK with your code to handle exceptions and collect data for debugging. Supports JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Java, .NET, iOS, Android, Go, and more.

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Software Developer - II

Errors do not get into correct versions of app sometimes. Also, I am still struggling with map files as JavaScript errors are really hard to decode without map js files.

Engineer

Error grouping is sometimes awkward. New deployments of my team's code create new errors that are duplicates.

Chief Architect

It’s a bad choice for AWS  lambda, just painful. The client has an inscrutable api and the typescript definitions are wrong or missing.

Software Engineer-II

I like how it can map the errors with timelines and usage. The most amazing thing is its seamless integration with Slack, to which we send all of our critical alerts.

CEO & Founder

We like Rollbar because it helps us to keep track of every error on our production application, have a great user interface to work with and its affordable similar services.

Lead Software Engineer - Team Lead

Real-time error tracking, as soon an error pops up on test or production environment, we get an alert on slack and act on it.

Great tool to use, easy to set up and integrate with other apps. The dashboards are easy to understand and use and see all the important details easily.

Analyst

It is best available in the market. Considering all the factors, it is on top on my list.

Software Engineer

Being able to get direct access to incidents from my phone is the most important feature - then switching to the desktop for resolution is easy.

Technical Lead

Their resolve & re-activations are perfect that alerts teams about repeat occurrences of existing system issues.

Lider de desarrollo front end

I love the ability to check the stack remotely and with it the browser types in case of our react app.

Programmer/Analyst

It is easy to use, easy to set up, and once set up seems to be great capturing a lot of details.

It is really good tool, helping to stabilise the systems, enhance user experiences so they face lesser issues.

Thanks to Rollbar we are able to provide proactive customer support.

Email integration, managing errors like marking them as resolved is very easy and intuitive. Versioning in errors can be done with some few commands which can be really useful.

Engineering Manager

Seamless and easy to integrate. Comparatively cheaper and hence value for money.

Founder, Software Developer

Super happy with Rollbar. Have used it on multiple projects, but in Recipe Cost Calculator specifically for probably at least seven years.

Great as overall, the on failure is the customer services is really slow.

Bitbucket

Review from Jr. Software Engineer that used recently

So in past we have used many error handling tools like sentry and errlytics but when we start using rollbar it is just an awesome experience in terms of ui and error logging. I recommend other companies to use this , would really benefit development with this tool.

Rollbar - Awesome Product i have ever used

I have been using rollbar for a couple of weeks now in my MVP it is very useful in tracking real-time events and exceptions is on the client side. 

Very easy it to add it your web app and you are all set to receive exception alerts as well as important events. 

I already depend on it to understand user engagement.

Only thing is I find it a bit expensive for a very early startup.


Very nice tool to understand user engagement and exception alerts

Useful

At radiocut.fm we think it's a no-brainer to use Rollbar: the pricing is a perfect fit for us, we like the different groupings, even the "People" tab where the errors are grouped by user, and many more things! Thanks Rollbar, keep building an awesome product!

We love Rollbar. When an error arises (it happens...) it allows us to quickly focus in solving it.

I like it so far

Decided to stop using airbrake and use rollbar instead, so far no regrets. Its very easy to use and has great documentation and customer support.

Really simply and easy to use. Great replacement for airbrake.io

Between error tracking, deploy notifications, complete stack traces, grouping, trends and their workflow integrations, Rollbar has given my team clear insight into the health of our entire stack.

Best error tracking service out there!

Limited capabilities for filtering slack notifications. Suspect deploys produces a lot of fake positives. Automatic grouping doesn't work so well.

The frontend error tracking is too noisy as it detects also errors out of our scope as the errors provoked by browser extensions, bots, non-supported browsers, etc. This makes the frontend tracking useless as we can't trust the alerts as we do for the rest of the stacks.

Thanks to Rollbar we are able to provide proactive customer support

I love you guys! If I could rate you higher than 10 I would!

Team Rollbar--I LOVE you guys and your wonderful service! This review is far too long overdue.

Let me save you a bunch of time and make the decision for you. If you're not already using an error tracking platform, you must. If you're deciding between which services to use, just go with Rollbar, and stop deliberating.

Rollbar is hands-down, THE BEST full-stack application error and exception monitoring/tracking system.

I was an early user and first started using Rollbar in early 2012 (back when it was still called Ratchet.io). Suffice it to say, it has completely transformed and leveled-up the way I build and write applications.

Rollbar is now a must-have for any application I build. TDD? Yeah, could do that, or you can just be more lean and start building, and Rollbar will catch all of your exceptions for you. Large team? Even more so that you need Rollbar, so that you can detect and fix errors before they inconvenience your users.

Here are the reasons for why I think Rollbar is great:

Best thing since sliced bread - For the developers in the late 90's to early 2000's who remember it, just as Firebug and later on Chrome Developer Tools was to JavaScript development, so is Rollbar to development on any stack. Before, with writing JavaScript in Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer 4.0, all you had to go off of was that there was a JS error and the JS on a page was completely broken. Developers familiar with that old debugging technique will shake their heads today--manual binary search, commenting out parts of code until it started working again--those days are gone. Now, with Rollbar, you can know with certainty what parts of your application, down to the specific line(s) of code, are causing the exception.

Rollbar has an exceptional, world-class team. Rollbar is built by engineers, for engineers. I know because I've worked with a few folks at team Rollbar, including the founder/CEO Brian Rue, who has been a mentor and advisor to me at a few startups, and some of my elite former colleagues who were hand-picked to join the Rollbar team. They are extremely talented hackers and engineers.

Rollbar scales, an is extremely reliable. We're not just talking Mickey Mouse pretend scale, but they actually do. Guess what? Unlike most of the rest of the web, they're actually NOT primarily an AWS-based stack (yeah, because AWS outages can cause large chunks of the web to fail). Rollbar is in multiple data centers across the world for improved 

The Absolute BEST Thing You Can Do for Writing Better Software

Overall, I like Rollbar and I hope to see some improvements in its functionality in the future.

Robust product but issues in testability

I have been using Rollbar for the past year and I can honestly say it has been the best error tracking tool I have used. The features and insights provided have been invaluable. The customer service has been great and they have always been willing to help. Highly recommend it to anyone looking for an error tracking tool.

The Best Error Tracking Tool Around

Rollbar does its job and then gets out of your way (until you need it)

My overall experience with this product is quite negative. Last year I noticed that when my teammates mention me under a specific item (a bug) I didn't receive any emails. This is quite important because the product doesn't offer any alternatives to get notified about those issues. There are no webpage notifications. There is no way to search for bugs that you were mentioned. The only alternative is to go through hundreds of web pages and use Cmd + F to see if someone mentioned you, asked you a question, assigned a task to you, or some other thing that is important for your daily job.  
I wrote to their customer service explaining the issue. Our initial correspondence took almost a month for me to convince them there is in fact a problem and I didn't receive emails. After convincing them, I was told that I could get a reply in a few weeks. I followed up one month later, and they asked for a few more weeks. Another month passed and they basically said this was a low priority issue and they don't know if and when it will be fixed. I wasn't even offered any workarounds.
Since then, I get an automated email from them once in a while asking me to rate their product. I give a low rating, explain the situation, a couple of months passes and I get the same email. 
I work in SaaS, I do understand the need for prioritization and the lack of resources but having a critical feature that doesn't work for a customer and not bothering to offer any alternatives are a big no for me.

Unusable product with no customer support

It is integrated with my project I use it to track bugs, log info and improve performance.

Nice tool for error tracking and logging

I have been using Rollbar for about 3 years now, and I have to say it has made my life a lot easier. They have a ton of platform integrations, but I have only integrated this service in Android and PHP projects. For most programming languages, they have their own API, but this product seems to be so popular that people are even writing wrappers around the API for frameworks.

Eg see https://github.com/jenssegers/laravel-rollbar

I would definitely recommend this to anyone, especially because they also have an 'always free' formula, which gives you the opportunity to try it out.

Customer support is really decent, they're usually replying to your requests in 2 hours or less. And I'm not even in their timezone.

Error tracking made easy

Overall, I consider my experience with Rollbar has been great. It has helped me a lot detecting bugs and issues that customers are facing.

Great to debug exceptions of your software

Rollbar let us drop in an SDK that automatically wired up to capture browser errors without a ton of work on our end, which was a huge time-saver.

We rely on Rollbar for great client-side error logging

Seamless and easy to integrate
Comparatively cheaper and hence value for money

Catching Bugs on Production finally made easy

Great error tracking tool for the money paid

We used Rollbar for last few years and many projects and it always work great!
Rollbar go fast forward for the last few years with a new features and improvements.

The best error monitoring tool I ever used!


Motivating time saver
April 01, 2017 12:38

I'm a Rollbar user since the very beginning of the project. Before Rollbar I've switched a few ways of dealing with logs.

First, I was just reading logs when needed with tail and getting a weekly batch of errors by email. That was OK for local development and tiny projects but for bigger deployments that were useless because the amount of data.

Then I've found some offline log aggregation tools and these were OK but still required exporting logs, running these tools and checking results. Rollbar automates all that. You're getting a realtime picture of your errors. You can sort messages by the number of occurrences thus getting a good list to work on.

Another fun part is how it charges you. The more errors you have the more you pay. Rollbar motivates you to fix things to pay less.

At first, I've tried it in personal projects then in a huge commercial project that is already running for more than 7 years. Rollbar saved me hundreds of hours and I'm glad I've stumbled upon it back then.

Motivating time saver

Bad. If I get paged because of an error or see an anomaly that I have configured to alert me via Rollbar, I will use another tool to see what the issue might be. UI is too slow and clunky when I need to move fast.  

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Review from Jr. Software Engineer that used recently

Rollbar - Awesome Product i have ever used