AirBrake vs Exceptional vs errbit: which one is the best to track exceptions in your rails app? [closed]
Disclaimer. I'm the lead Product guy at Airbrake / Exceptional.
We agree that it's important to track / manage exceptions in your app; both products have been doing so successfully since 2008. Both teams built an excellent services. Unfortunately there hasn't been much product innovation in the last few years. Our team is dedicated to building a strong business exception tracking business that provides the best tools for developers. We have lots of innovation coming; longer datastore, graphs, search, analytics, reports, improved UI etc.. We plan to be around for a long time.
Regarding your concerns.
- Service closing down. We are stabling out both products, we've updated both API and backend datastores to fix legacy scaling issue. We are currently updating both apps, and won't be shutting any service down. We are still to publish our long-term roadmap, but we will offer a way to export or take the data with you if we were to ever shut one down.
Addressing your question. "Which service should you use? (For Rails) - It depends. I would recommend trying out both services, as both have different UI features, both services a free 30 day trial. The gem is different for both apps, and I would recommend reading the respective readmes. Exceptional Gem on Github and Airbrake Gem on Github.
I'm not going to address non-rails questions here, but I'm happy to follow up on any other question. You can reach me at ben@airbrake.io or ben@exceptional.io ;-)