Airbrake is a cloud service for application error and performance monitoring, with language-specific notifiers, alerts, error grouping, and deployment tracking.
Scores reflect documented monitoring, deployment, API, and integration capabilities, published plan limits, and G2 review evidence. They are editorial assessments, not hands-on test results.
This profile combines documented product information and independent evidence where available. It is not a hands-on test unless TechZella explicitly identifies one.
Airbrake is a hosted error and application performance monitoring service for software teams. Applications send errors and performance events through language-specific notifiers or the API, while users review issues in a web dashboard.
The service groups errors, provides backtraces and contextual data, and supports deployment tracking. Airbrake began as Hoptoad, a Rails-focused internal tool created in 2007 and released publicly in 2008. LogicMonitor acquired Airbrake in 2021.
A quick way to understand who this product may suit, where its limits matter, and which facts are most relevant before you compare alternatives.
Development teams that want hosted error monitoring and deployment-aware debugging across supported application languages and frameworks.
Teams requiring a verified self-hosted deployment option, or buyers who need all errors and performance events included at a predictable fixed price, and should evaluate alternatives such as Rollbar or Sentry instead.
Android, API, Cloud, iOS, Web
7.8/10
These are the product-specific differences that may matter when deciding whether the software fits your workflow. They are based on documented evidence rather than a universal ranking.
These are documented constraints or practical friction points that may matter before you adopt the product.
Estimate both event streams and configure account or project usage caps if event-volume spikes must not create unplanned charges.
Evidence source ↗The documentation lists integration guides, but teams should confirm the current integration's availability and behavior before making it part of an incident workflow.
Evidence source ↗Monthly entry package shown on the official pricing page. Annual option is listed from $17 per month. Error and performance quotas are selected separately.
Check current pricing →Monthly package shown on the official pricing page. Annual option is listed from $34 per month. The page lists unlimited users and up to three teams for this package.
Check current pricing →Monthly package shown on the official pricing page. Annual option is listed from $68 per month. The page lists unlimited users and teams, audit logs, and spike forgiveness.
Check current pricing →Pricing may change. Verify current plans on the vendor's website.
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| Decision factor | Airbrake | Rollbar |
|---|---|---|
| Core scope | Error and performance monitoring with separately selected error and event quotas. | Error monitoring plans include event volumes; the public plan page also lists session replays. Source ↗ |
| Deployment tracking | Airbrake documents deploy markers, deploy filtering, and repository backtrace links. | Rollbar lists deploy and version tracking among plan capabilities. Source ↗ |
| Pricing model | Paid packages combine a feature package with separately chosen error and performance quotas; excess usage may be charged on demand. | Rollbar lists free and usage-based plans, with on-demand event options and budget controls. Source ↗ |
| API | Airbrake documents API endpoints for project error groups and deployment tracking. | Rollbar lists a REST API and Terraform provider in its plan comparison. Source ↗ |
Only factors supported by the available research are shown. The comparison is descriptive, not a ranking.
These products address broadly similar requirements. The descriptions focus on documented reasons a buyer might compare them with Airbrake.
| Deployment | Hosted SaaS |
|---|---|
| Free trial | 30 days |
| API | Documented API for errors, groups, and deploy tracking |
| Supported languages and frameworks | Over 50 stated by Airbrake; examples include JavaScript, Java, .NET, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Rails |
| Mobile support | Official documentation includes Android and iOS guides |
| Data retention | Varies by selected error or performance quota; the pricing page shows 30 days for its displayed entry-level quota |
Verified installation, hosting, administration, or environment details that can affect implementation.
| Installation or hosting | Hosted monitoring service; applications send data through Airbrake notifiers or its API. No self-hosted option was verified in the reviewed product materials. Source ↗ |
|---|---|
| Application instrumentation | Official materials list notifiers for over 50 languages, frameworks, and libraries, plus a CLI and direct API submissions. Source ↗ |
Documented portability, standards, export, or switching considerations. No switching-cost score is shown unless the evidence supports one.
Airbrake documents an API and an error-export guide. The reviewed materials did not verify a one-click migration from a competing service.
Evidence source ↗A proprietary editorial score based on product capabilities, usability, value, performance, support and user sentiment evidence.
Scores reflect documented monitoring, deployment, API, and integration capabilities, published plan limits, and G2 review evidence. They are editorial assessments, not hands-on test results.
Methodology v1.0. The assessment weighs feature coverage (25%), ease of use (15%), value for money (20%), performance (15%), support (10%) and user sentiment (15%), using researched product evidence and verified review evidence where available. It is a TechZella editorial assessment, not a direct user-review average.
Key claims are linked to the sources used to verify them. This evidence record is separate from third-party user ratings.
TechZella evaluates software using documented product capabilities, pricing information, usability and value considerations, independent user evidence where available, and competitive context. The assessment is an editorial review, not a hands-on test unless one is explicitly identified. Our editorial assessment is based on 5 documented sources.
The company history says Hoptoad was created in 2007 and released publicly in 2008.
View source ↗Verified 2026-11-08Its documentation describes the service as providing both kinds of monitoring, real-time alerts, and API, CLI, and GUI access.
View source ↗Verified 2026-11-08Documentation covers deploy markers, filtering by deploy, and submitting deployment details through an API endpoint.
View source ↗Verified 2026-11-08The official pricing page lists package prices, separate error and performance monitoring choices, quotas, and on-demand usage.
View source ↗Verified 2026-11-08Airbrake's history dates the acquisition to 2021; LogicMonitor's announcement confirms the acquisition.
View source ↗Verified 2026-11-08The public G2 product review page displayed the average and review count.
View source ↗Verified 2026-11-08Answers begin with the clearest available response, followed by the context that helps you act on it.
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