monitoring
Rollbar
Continuous code improvement — real-time error tracking + AI triage
Error tracking platform with AI-assisted triage (Rollbar AI). 40+ SDKs. Deployment tracking + source maps + RQL query language. Alt to Sentry.
Pricing
| Tier | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | $0. 5,000 events/month. 1 user. 30-day retention. Basic alerts. |
| Essentials | $21/mo | $21/mo (starting). 25K events/mo. Unlimited users. 30-day retention. Slack/Jira integrations. |
| Advanced | $79/mo | $79/mo (starting). 100K events/mo. Deployment tracking, RQL, AI triage. 180-day retention. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom. Starting ~$599/mo. 1M+ events. SSO, audit logs, HIPAA, priority support. |
Limits
| Tier | Metric | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | ai triage | Rollbar AI suggests root cause + fix; requires Advanced plan | AI features |
| — | compliance | SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA (Enterprise) | Compliance |
| — | deploy tracking | Mark deploys with git SHA for per-deploy error diffs | Deploy tracking |
| — | event types | Exceptions, crashes, log messages, custom events | Event types |
| — | grouping | Server-side exception fingerprinting + manual merging | Error grouping |
| — | retention | 30d (Free/Essentials), 180d (Advanced), custom (Enterprise) | Data retention |
| — | rql | Rollbar Query Language — SQL-like querying of errors | RQL |
| — | sdk count | 40+ official SDKs (Node, Python, Ruby, PHP, Go, Java, .NET, Android, iOS, Flutter, RN, etc.) | SDK count |
| — | vs sentry | Competes with Sentry — Rollbar historically stronger in Ruby/PHP shops + AI triage; Sentry bigger ecosystem | Sentry comparison |
Features
- Alerts — Rule-based alerts to Slack/email/PagerDuty.
- Custom Events — Log arbitrary events via API.
- Deploy Tracking — Annotate errors with deploy SHAs.
- Error Tracking — Capture uncaught exceptions + crashes.
- Intelligent Grouping — Fingerprint-based deduplication.
- Notifiers — 60+ alert channels (Slack, Jira, Teams, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, etc.).
- Person Tracking — Tie errors to end users.
- Real User Monitoring — Browser performance + error correlation.
- Rollbar AI Triage — AI root-cause analysis + suggested fixes.
- RQL Query — SQL-like error querying.
- Session Replay (add-on) — Video-like user session reconstruction.
- Source Maps — Minified JS → original.
- Telemetry Timeline — Breadcrumbs of events before crash.
- Webhooks — Outbound event streaming.
- Workflow Automations — Auto-assign owners, auto-close resolved items.
Developer interfaces
| Slug | Name | Kind | Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| dashboard | Rollbar Dashboard | other | — |
| sdk-go | rollbar-go | sdk | 1.x |
| sdk-js | rollbar.js (browser) | sdk | 2.x |
| sdk-node | rollbar (Node) | sdk | 2.x |
| sdk-php | rollbar-php | sdk | 4.x |
| sdk-python | rollbar (Python) | sdk | 1.x |
| rest-api | Rollbar REST API | rest | v1 |
| sdk-ruby | rollbar (Ruby) | sdk | 3.x |
| webhooks | Rollbar Webhooks | other | — |
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