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# Page 2 - Reviews of Rollbar

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Dylan C.  
Software Developer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Exceptional error monitoring"

January 3, 2024

5.0

Rollbar allows us to be proactive about our bugs. We frequently get notified about production incidents, the notifications come straight through to our developer Slack channel and we can quickly debug using the captured information and put out a fix before a customer ever notices. If they ever reach out to us, it always makes us look really good when we can say that we already know and we've fixed it.

Pros

I love how easy it is to drop Rollbar into an application. We deployed Rollbar in under an hour and the event lots started streaming in immediately. Within a day it had helped us solve several production issues.

Cons

If you have a larger project, or a particularly chatty application, Rollbar's event limits can quickly push you up into a higher pricing plan and if you don't pay up it will start swallowing errors silently until the quota renews at the end of the month.

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Jonathan T.  
CTO  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "The Absolute BEST Thing You Can Do for Writing Better Software"

September 26, 2016

5.0

Team Rollbar--I LOVE you guys and your wonderful service! This review is far too long overdue. Let me save you a bunch of time and make the decision for you. If you're not already using an error tracking platform, you must. If you're deciding between which services to use, just go with Rollbar, and stop deliberating. Rollbar is hands-down, THE BEST full-stack application error and exception monitoring/tracking system. I was an early user and first started using Rollbar in early 2012 (back when it was still called Ratchet.io). Suffice it to say, it has completely transformed and leveled-up the way I build and write applications. Rollbar is now a must-have for any application I build. TDD? Yeah, could do that, or you can just be more lean and start building, and Rollbar will catch all of your exceptions for you. Large team? Even more so that you need Rollbar, so that you can detect and fix errors before they inconvenience your users. Here are the reasons for why I think Rollbar is great: Best thing since sliced bread - For the developers in the late 90's to early 2000's who remember it, just as Firebug and later on Chrome Developer Tools was to JavaScript development, so is Rollbar to development on any stack. Before, with writing JavaScript in Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer 4.0, all you had to go off of was that there was a JS error and the JS on a page was completely broken. Developers familiar with that old debugging technique will shake their heads today--manual binary search, commenting out parts of code until it started working again--those days are gone. Now, with Rollbar, you can know with certainty what parts of your application, down to the specific line(s) of code, are causing the exception. Rollbar has an exceptional, world-class team. Rollbar is built by engineers, for engineers. I know because I've worked with a few folks at team Rollbar, including the founder/CEO Brian Rue, who has been a mentor and advisor to me at a few startups, and some of my elite former colleagues who were hand-picked to join the Rollbar team. They are extremely talented hackers and engineers. Rollbar scales, an is extremely reliable. We're not just talking Mickey Mouse pretend scale, but they actually do. Guess what? Unlike most of the rest of the web, they're actually NOT primarily an AWS-based stack (yeah, because AWS outages can cause large chunks of the web to fail). Rollbar is in multiple data centers across the world for improved

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Software Engineer  
Financial Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Great Error reporting with minimal downtime"

July 16, 2020

4.0

Pros

I have enjoyed how easy Rollbar is to set up with Ruby, Javascript and Ruby on Rails. Their libraries made it painless to set up and already start reporting errors. I don't know that half of the errors caught by Rollbar would have been fixed in the short turn around time as if we didn't have Rollbar. Rollbar is also user friendly and they are constantly putting up more features. My favorite feature is with a given error they include the stack-trace in my code and who wrote the code that is erroring out. This is very useful for debugging.

Cons

In short the downtime. Albeit very minimal, there have been some days I can remember that Rollbar was down for more than an hour and if I recall correctly a whole work day. These times it made it hard not to worry if anything is breaking or throwing errors. For this reason I have enjoyed having another performance monitoring product.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Solution Engineer  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Nice tool for error tracking and logging"

April 15, 2022

4.0

It is integrated with my project I use it to track bugs, log info and improve performance.

Pros

It is easy to use, UI is great, easily integrated with my project. easy to send errors and logs.

Cons

UI for seeing the occurrences of an item needs some work, sometimes there are a lot of fields in an occurrence and the horizontal slider was given all the way to the end which is inconvenient.

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Brian R.  
Development Manager  
Real Estate  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Sure beats a shared email inbox!"

July 13, 2020

4.0

Very positive and better priced for its features than some of its competitors. It also helps the pricing is by volume rather than users, which makes far more sense for this kind of product.

Pros

The ability to aggregate your bug/debug information into a single platform, with the ability to prioritize based on the severity and frequency. Sure beats our shared email inbox "solution". Integration into things like Slack are amazingly useful for highlighting Nth errors.

Cons

Inability to setup fine-tuned VCS integration, we have a multi-branch environment and only being able to set 1 git branch for all the environments basically nullifies any use it has outside of the production environment. We have setup all the environments in rollbar but there is no ability to map each to its own git branch.

Alternatives considered

[BugSnag](https://www.capterra.com/p/265817/Bugsnag/)[Raygun](https://www.capterra.com/p/159822/Raygun/)

Reason for choosing Rollbar

Pricing to features ratio

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Jeremy P.  
Head of Engineering  
Marketing and Advertising  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Very helpful product"

July 16, 2020

5.0

Generally we have had a really positive experience with Rollbar. It intergrates well with other tools and really helps focus on key issues rather that occasional issues

Pros

The deduplication works well for the most part, and the ability to capture lots of additional information (both automatically and manually) is great. Makes identifying what an issue could be really easy.

Cons

Doing custom searches look like they could be really useful but are is really slow compared with more general purpose logging tools like ELK/CloudWatch/Splunk and I wish it was possible to expand and change the time periods of the graphs.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Software Engineer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Great to debug exceptions of your software"

July 10, 2020

4.0

Overall, I consider my experience with Rollbar has been great. It has helped me a lot detecting bugs and issues that customers are facing.

Pros

What I like the most about Rollbar is how easy it is to integrate within your code. Providing you with a powerful tool that will help you debugging possible exception that might occur in production, alerting you right away when some errors are happening very often and pointing your right at the line where the error was triggered.

Cons

As long as I have been using it I don't have something I dislike about Rollbar. A feature that could improve it significantly could be request tracing, that way you could have all the data in one place to understand quicker what went wrong.

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TR

Thaine R.  
Full Stack Web Developer  
Financial Services  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Error Logs Simplified"

November 7, 2016

5.0

I'd never really done any log management things untill my CTO brought this product to our application suite. The time this has saved us is just incredible. The main features that really help: Grouping of Logs - Groups together errors so you don't get spammed. There have been a time or two this has worked against me, but overall it really helps. Not to mention, you can resolve errors and they'll pop back up if they happen again, so you know if something is really broken or just a one off developer bug. Stacktrace and Local variables - Really helps that they include the full stack trace, and if you choose, can display local variables you inject. This has made it so easy to setup some debugging features and then let them go. For those really weird bugs that you really can't seem to nail down a cause for. Environment Separation - Really helps to tell between a production (oh no! Lets fix this!) or a staging (fix it before pushing) kinda errors. I don't think I could go back to any other debugging method. In the very least, Rollbar always gives me a place to start using xdebug. At the most, I look at the information and know exactly what went wrong, and can fix it. Great product!

Pros

Log Grouping Stacktrace with local variables Enivronment Separation

Cons

Something the grouping can work too well, and errors that are different actually get grouped together. The standards can be a little hard to figure out, and there are multiple ways to do everything.

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DO

Daniel O.  
Software Engineer  
Hospital & Health Care  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Not Very Helpful"

July 10, 2020

2.0

Pros

It's great that it logs errors. And the grouping of errors is sometimes helpful.

Cons

That searching for anything other than the unique identifier is almost impossible. Found a work-around using RQL, but that is sometimes hours later by the time the RQL database is populated with recent errors... so basically, we have to reproduce and error and then hurry and click the errors at the top and hope we can maybe find it. It's worse than logging errors to a text file honestly... cause at least I could search that in a reasonable amount of time.

Reason for choosing Rollbar

We are looking at Raygun as a better alternative. The searching works and is super fast on their tags and even searching for error message strings. Please note that I do not speak on behalf of my company. I speak only from personal experience.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Engineering Manager  
Health, Wellness and Fitness  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Catching Bugs on Production finally made easy"

March 18, 2021

4.0

Seamless and easy to integrate Comparatively cheaper and hence value for money

Pros

Easy integration with readily available SDKs and code snippets Grouping of errors Easy to use webhooks Value for money Access Management Our dev loves rollbar because of the easy integration Our oncal loves rollbar because of the easy error tracking

Cons

Rollbar Query Language (RQL) can be made easy as well as search functionality can be improved Reporting can also be improved

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Volodymyr B.  
Android Developer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Robust reporting tool"

May 4, 2019

5.0

Use this tool on one big project for all platforms (backend, web, mobile) and it is good enough to cover your needs in errors or debug info reporting. At the first glance it looks like it lacks features compared with other platforms, but after some time you understand that the product has everything you would need for successful project state monitoring.

Pros

Love the minimalistic UI, which keeps everything clear and understandable. Developers constantly add new features, like automatic events grouping, etc. Love to have all platforms on one Dashboard to look at reported error from different platforms point of view.

Cons

The quality of Android SDK isn't the top tier with not enough options for event reporting. Also had to so some adjustments for test suits, since in some cases the SDK wouldn't initialize correctly.

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Tung F.  
iOS Developer  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Get notified for issues"

October 27, 2018

4.0

Pros

I like that it sends notifications if something goes wrong and your team can stay alert about it. It's pretty nice to know if something is down or something isn't working. We also use it to track custom events when some logic isn't behaving as expected. For example when server returns a new Key value that is not handled on client side.

Cons

The notifications customization is pretty hard and not clear. I tried to turn off some part but I couldn't do it only to myself. You (seems) can only turn it off for the "team". So I end up creating a filter in Gmail.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Lead Software Engineer  
Internet  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Best-In-Class Error Reporting"

October 3, 2018

5.0

Rollbar is an absolutely fantastic service and highly-responsive support if you ever hit an issue, all at a very reasonable price point. I can't recommend it highly enough.

Pros

\- Easy integrations make setup a breeze - Ability to filter errors by environment and assigned level make management great - Deployment tracking, view errors by user, search errors using SQL-like syntax, deobfuscation of stack traces - more features than you can shake a stick at

Cons

\- Automatic grouping of errors leaves something to be desired, but this is can be worked around by marking these errors manually

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IM

Ian M.  
Engineer  
Telecommunications  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "a pain but no good alternatives"

July 15, 2020

1.0

Bad. If I get paged because of an error or see an anomaly that I have configured to alert me via Rollbar, I will use another tool to see what the issue might be. UI is too slow and clunky when I need to move fast.

Pros

I like to see my errors/warnings and have it work with PagerDuty. Serves an essential purpose, I couldn't go without. The query language is pretty powerful. It is also easy to integrate into my services.

Cons

The UI is absolutely the worst. Extremely slow and the toggles/selects are a huge pain. The graphs are near useless. Even the deep linking is bad with the new UI that was recently released. Can't see trends or changes over time. The query language is good but you can't save them or plot them. Kinda bare bones. It is my debugging tool of last resort because the UI is so frustrating.

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Amanda Josalene W.  
Fragrances  
Retail  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Works fantastic for my business & our website!"

March 11, 2019

5.0

Overall, Rollbar has worked great for my business and our website, and if any problems ever arise with the software, they have an excellent support team that responds quickly and accurately.

Pros

Rollbar was very easy to learn and to navigate, which was a massive plus. Having our own website programmed from the ground-up, it was crucial we had a software that detected and located any errors and/or bugs within our website so they could be fixed/eliminated. Rollbar provides real-time bug tracking, which saved us and our programmer LOADS of time as we located any issues quickly and prevented any possible website crashes/any unnecessary downtime.

Cons

I don't have any cons; Rollbar has helped us to the fullest extent.

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Ariel V.  
Product Manager  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Simple yet powerful monitoring"

July 16, 2020

5.0

It's an excellent tool for monitoring and tracing back production issues. I would definitely recommend.

Pros

I get the notifications that matter to me about broken stuff in production, saving precious time and allowing me to be ahead of users complaints.

Cons

Rollbar has much more than what I actually use at this point, but I'd be using even more if I found the setup process to be smoother.

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Pradatta A.  
Product Engineer  
Financial Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Really good for monitoring your micro services"

July 12, 2020

5.0

Overall I’m very happy with this.

Pros

I have been using Rollbar for more than 2 years now, it’s really easy to use. The best thing is that when you’re setting up a new service it very easy to setup with your standard logger like log4j. And then voila you have your errors in the rollbar dashboard. It is very handy when your releasing. On top of that you can set up slack integration that keeps you alerting when thing are broken. I’d definitely suggest this to my friends and ex-colleagues to use this.

Cons

I haven’t faced any cons yet. Only thing notice is if you do not configure your logger properly then it might spam with with errors you don’t care about, But that’s not the problem of the product itself.

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AD

Anuj D.  
Software Engineer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Current State of Rollbar"

July 16, 2020

4.0

Pros

I love the immediate notifications for errors as users see them. Shooting for "Rollbar Zero" on a team can be the best way to reap value from the product. It gives immense visibility into what's failing.

Cons

Why it's failing is not often immediately obvious looking at the rollbar; we have to use multiple observability tools to figure that out. I also am not a huge fan of the UI, it's slow and cluttered and deters me from using it all the time. - Grouping is not great - If Rollbar goes down or stops sending messages, a lot of visibility is taken away -- it's reliability could be a reason why we don't continue using it in the future.

Reason for choosing Rollbar

It's really easy to setup across the board and we don't need to maintain it much

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RR

Rohit R.  
Application Support Analyst  
E-Learning  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Incredible instrument for observing errors and execution in numerous situations,"

July 11, 2020

5.0

Pros

The best part about Rollbar is the very even UI that permits you to see all mistakes followed for different situations including testing, arranging, and creation. I love the amazing way simple it is to coordinate with various dialects. Following customer side javascript is overly helpful with full stack follows to show you precisely what turned out badly. It's anything but difficult to see patterns in different bugs and imprint bugs as unraveled without any problem. The arrangement alternatives are generally great arrangements and it's anything but difficult to get ready for action, Rollbar is magnificent!

Cons

Here and there it's somewhat hard to tell where to discover a few alternatives on the grounds that they aren't generally similarly situated. Missing disconnected assembling usefulness for JavaScript, however, I haven't discovered it in any item.

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Gustavo M.  
Senior Software Engineer  
Human Resources  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Required for error tracking"

July 12, 2020

4.0

We’ve implemented a database timeout so we receive a rollbar error whenever we have a slow query, and we can track the number of occurrences we have. It was very helpful

Pros

I’ve added rollbar to many projects and it was very simple and easy to integrate. Rollbar help and getting started was helpful. The tool is useful to understand what are the weakest parts of the applications and what are the most frequent source or errors.

Cons

The error grouping sometimes is not perfect and impacts in how much time I should dedicate to group errors properly in order to identify the real amount of errors and occurrences of the same problem in different parts of the application.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Software Engineer  
Marketing and Advertising  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Good, could be better."

July 10, 2020

4.0

Pros

It's very helpful for debugging and seeing errors in real time to quickly address.

Cons

my biggest complaint is when looking at stack traces for errors, the line numbers don't line up with line numbers in your files. this can make for a little bit of a goose chase when trying to find an errant line of code.

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David B.  
DevOps Lead  
Writing and Editing  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Solid exception with straight forward pricing model"

July 11, 2020

4.0

Pros

Good language support. Good both for frontend and backend error tracking. Quick to set up notification (e.g. slack messages) for multiple projects thanks to "copy notification settings from existing project" feature. Very easy to comprehend pricing and packaging.

Cons

Grouping of errors could be better out of the box. But it's not like Rollbar is worse than any of the competition in this regards and they do offer manual configuration to solve common grouping mistakes.

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M. Serhat D.  
Lead Software Developer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Using to to monitor Rails apps"

April 3, 2019

5.0

Pros

Free package comes with high limits, Github integration is satisfying, easy to setup and manage.

Cons

Honestly, nothing so far. Rollbar is the best option when compared to other alternatives, in terms of price/value rate. Most projects can use free version of the Rollbar without any hassle.

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MK

Matthew K.  
Principal Software Engineer  
Computer & Network Security  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Rollbar Issue with Javascript minification"

July 16, 2020

4.0

I review the output from Rollbar everyday. As I said it's very good at capturing Rails, but not particularly useful with Javascript, because of the minification of the files.

Pros

We have a rails application with.a large amount of javascript involved. Rollbar does an excellent job capturing rails exceptions. These errors are clear and understandable. The javascript errors are based on the minified version of the code. Javascript errors are not easily actionable. I will need to learn how to use a sourcemap so that I can zero in on the exact cause of the exception.

Cons

Needing to use a sourcemap on my javascript files. I could use a good tutorial on how to do this! I have not had any time to do thorough research on creating a sourcemap. Until that is done, though, I'm afraid the javascript exceptions( There are a lot of errors!) are not actionable.

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AT

Alex T.  
CTO  
Events Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Error monitoring done right"

April 6, 2017

5.0

We're Rollbar customers for a about two years, moved to Rollbar after trying few other log aggregation services but none of them had features we needed or didn't deliver on their promise. We're using Ruby on Rails, integration was a breeze, started receiving error messages in less than 5 minutes. The interface is easy to use, live feed works great showing errors as they come up, resolving issues and tracking deploys flows works perfectly. Also I can't recall when Rollbar had downtime or a bug, yet we see new gem releases regularly. I wish other services we use had such a robust infrastructure as Rollbar do. Also I'd like to mention their exceptional support, with very quick responses from highly qualified agents that solve your problems spot on. With Rollbar tools we manage to resolve majority of the issues as they happen, before customers contact our support teams.

Pros

Uptime, easy to use api, live feed, rql, people tracking, exceptional support

Cons

Unified dashboard between projects would be great, but can be implemented with their api

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