What is Airbrake?
Airbrake is a comprehensive error monitoring and performance monitoring platform designed to help developers maintain application health across their entire tech stack. The tool intelligently captures project errors, groups them effectively, and provides precise code-level insights to facilitate rapid bug resolution before customers are impacted. With its lightweight architecture and open-source SDK-based installation, Airbrake minimizes technical debt while offering powerful features like hotspots analysis, deployment correlation, and real-time notifications.
The platform supports all major programming languages and frameworks through easy-to-integrate notifiers, enabling developers to gain immediate visibility into application performance metrics such as HTTP requests, response times, and error occurrences. Airbrake's seamless integrations with popular collaboration tools ensure teams stay informed about critical issues through their preferred communication channels, making it an essential tool for modern development workflows focused on continuous improvement and quality assurance.
Features
- Error Monitoring: Captures all project errors, intelligently groups them, and provides code-level insights for quick fixes
- Performance Monitoring: Tracks application performance through metrics like HTTP requests, response times, and error occurrences
- Deploy Tracking: Correlates errors with deployments to identify bad deploys and improve code quality
- Multi-language Support: Supports all major programming languages including JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Java, .Net, and more
- Real-time Alerts: Provides immediate notifications about errors through email and integration with collaboration tools
- Lightweight Architecture: Uses agentless and serverless design with open-source SDK-based installation
- Seamless Integrations: Connects with favorite apps and tools for streamlined workflow management
- Advanced Search Filters: Enables precise error filtering and investigation through comprehensive search capabilities
Use Cases
- Monitoring web application errors in production environments
- Tracking performance metrics for desktop and mobile applications
- Identifying and fixing bugs before customers notice issues
- Correlating deployment events with error occurrences
- Managing application health across full-stack development projects
- Receiving real-time error notifications through Slack or email
- Analyzing error trends to improve code quality over time
- Monitoring application performance for WebOps teams
FAQs
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How does the Free Trial work?
During your free trial, you will have access to all Airbrake features, including UNLIMITED Errors, UNLIMITED Performance Monitoring events, and 30 days data retention. -
How does Monthly Billing work?
All paid plans are set up for monthly credit card payments initiated through the web application. Monthly payments are prepaying for the upcoming month of service. -
Is my data secure?
Absolutely. Airbrake offers top-notch security to keep your data safe. Airbrake is SOC 2 Type II certified and complies with GDPR. Two-factor authorization is also available through GitHub, OneLogin, and Okta integrations. -
What happens if I exceed my monthly quota?
If you exceed your account's Error or Event quota, each additional Error or Event will be billed to your account at an 'on-demand' rate based on your selected plan. -
How easy is it to cancel my account?
You can modify your plan and account settings at any time from your account dashboard, without having to call and talk to Airbrake. Canceling your account will stop any future monthly recurring payments.
