Errbit vs Honeybadger
Errbit and Honeybadger are both error tracking software. Errbit is open source under MIT, with 4.3k GitHub stars. Honeybadger is a commercial product from Honeybadger Industries.
Which to pick
- Pick Errbit when
- You want free self-hosted error tracking for apps that already use Airbrake clients.
- Pick Honeybadger when
- A small team, especially a Rails shop, wants errors, uptime and job monitoring from one simple vendor.
Side by side
A self-hosted error catcher compatible with the Airbrake API that collects exceptions from apps and groups and notifies about them.
Error tracking, uptime checks, cron monitoring and logging in one hosted service, strongest for Ruby, Elixir, PHP and JavaScript apps.
Dated and MongoDB-based, with far fewer features than Sentry or GlitchTip.
A small company with a narrower feature set than the large observability platforms.
Usable
Production-ready
Self-hosted server
Cloud service
Ruby, Rails and MongoDB
Not published
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Closed source, sold by Honeybadger Industries
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
4.3k GitHub stars
No Wikipedia article of its own
Established: started 16 years ago, latest release v0.11.6.
Not known
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.