Errbit vs Rollbar
Errbit and Rollbar are both error tracking software. Errbit is open source under MIT, with 4.3k GitHub stars. Rollbar is a commercial product from Rollbar.
Which to pick
- Pick Errbit when
- You want free self-hosted error tracking for apps that already use Airbrake clients.
- Pick Rollbar when
- A team wants a hosted error tracker focused on errors and deploys rather than full observability, with a free plan to start.
Side by side
A self-hosted error catcher compatible with the Airbrake API that collects exceptions from apps and groups and notifies about them.
Collects and groups application errors in real time, links them to deploys, and alerts the team.
Dated and MongoDB-based, with far fewer features than Sentry or GlitchTip.
Overlaps heavily with Sentry, which has a larger ecosystem; compare before committing.
Usable
Production-ready
Self-hosted server
Cloud service
Ruby, Rails and MongoDB
Not published
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Closed source, sold by Rollbar
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
Other comparisons
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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.