Errbit vs Sentry
Errbit and Sentry are both error tracking software. Errbit is open source under MIT, with 4.3k GitHub stars. Sentry is a commercial product from Functional Software, Inc.
Which to pick
- Pick Errbit when
- You want free self-hosted error tracking for apps that already use Airbrake clients.
- Pick Sentry when
- Almost any software team that ships code to users and wants to see errors as they happen, with SDKs for most languages.
Side by side
A self-hosted error catcher compatible with the Airbrake API that collects exceptions from apps and groups and notifies about them.
Captures exceptions and crashes from web, mobile and backend apps with stack traces and context, and adds performance tracing and session replay.
Dated and MongoDB-based, with far fewer features than Sentry or GlitchTip.
Event-based pricing can climb on busy apps, and self-hosting the open version is a heavy stack of services.
Usable
Production-ready
Self-hosted server
Cloud service and self-hosted server
Ruby, Rails and MongoDB
Python, Django, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse and Kafka
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Closed source, sold by Functional Software, Inc.
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.