Rollbar
VerifiedDevOps · rollbar.com
Overview
Rollbar is a cloud-based error monitoring platform that captures, groups, and alerts on application errors in real time across web, mobile, and server-side code. It uses machine-learning-based grouping to cut alert noise and provides full stack traces, deploy tracking, and telemetry to help developers find and fix bugs before users are affected. It supports a broad range of languages and frameworks including JavaScript, Python, Ruby, PHP, .NET, Java, and Go.
The problem Rollbar solves
Development teams shipping across many languages often learn about production bugs from user complaints, with exceptions scattered across logs and no single place to triage them. Rollbar solves this by capturing errors in real time, grouping them with machine learning to cut noise, and routing alerts into Slack, Jira, and PagerDuty so developers catch and fix issues before customers are affected. It fits multi-language teams that want error visibility without stitching together their own logging and alerting.
Decision context
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- Published starting price: Free. Confirm user, usage, and feature limits for the plan you would actually buy.
- Deployment: cloud. Check security, data-residency, and access requirements for every team that will use it.
- Verified integrations include Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket. Validate sync direction and plan limits for the connections that matter.
- This record was last checked on 7/22/2026; pricing and features can change.
How to evaluate Rollbar
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Workflow fit
The record describes it as a fit for Development teams wanting real-time error alerts wired into Slack, Jira, and PagerDuty, Multi-language shops needing broad SDK coverage across JS, Python, Ruby, PHP, .NET, and more, Teams that want quick setup and ML-based error grouping to reduce alert noise. Check that this context matches the volume, roles, and processes your team needs it to support.
Pilot questions
- Can Rollbar complete the critical workflow without manual work outside the product?
- Do the recorded connections (Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira, GitHub) support the sync direction, permissions, and volume we need?
- What user, usage, storage, support, or security limits appear after the headline starting price?
Evidence and freshness
This record was checked on 7/22/2026. That date tells you when the record was reviewed, not that the vendor has left its terms unchanged since then.
Best for
- Development teams wanting real-time error alerts wired into Slack, Jira, and PagerDuty
- Multi-language shops needing broad SDK coverage across JS, Python, Ruby, PHP, .NET, and more
- Teams that want quick setup and ML-based error grouping to reduce alert noise
Not a fit if
- Teams needing full APM, distributed tracing, or infrastructure monitoring in one tool
- Organizations that require an on-premise or self-hosted deployment
Why it’s listed
- Widely used, well-reviewed error-monitoring tool (4.5 across 400+ reviews on G2 and Capterra)
- Strong language/framework coverage and 40+ developer-workflow integrations
- Enterprise-grade compliance (SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA)
Pricing
Free
FreeFree tier for small projects with real-time alerts and error grouping.
- 5,000 occurrences + 1,000 replays per month
- Real-time feed and alerts
- Intelligent error grouping
- Stack traces
- Deploy tracking
- 30-day data retention
Essentials
$9 per monthEntry paid plan starting at 10K events with longer retention and rate limiting.
- Everything in Free
- 10K-50M occurrences per month
- Fine-grained rate limiting
- Up to 90-day data retention
- 4,000 credits included
Advanced
$13 per monthHigher-volume plan with adaptive alerts and analytics APIs.
- Everything in Essentials
- Adaptive alerts
- Rollbar Analyze: RQL + Metrics API
- SCIM provisioning
- Up to 180-day data retention
- 8,000 credits included
Enterprise
Custom pricingCustom plan for large-scale deployments with SLAs and enterprise security.
- Everything in Advanced
- 80M+ events
- Priority support and SLAs
- Direct Slack channel
- Fully custom data retention
- Enterprise-level security controls
Features
Integrations
Security & compliance
Pros & cons
Pros
- Fast, easy initial setup with events streaming in quickly
- Extensive, seamless integrations with Slack, Jira, GitHub and more
- Real-time, proactive error detection that catches bugs before users hit them
- Full stack traces and ML-driven grouping that help prioritize real issues
Cons
- Error grouping can be noisy, with duplicate errors and unclear grouping rules
- Event/quota limits fill quickly and push teams into higher-priced tiers
- Support responsiveness is inconsistent per some reviewers
- Interface and graphs/dashboards take some getting used to
What we found
Reviewers on G2 and Capterra consistently praise Rollbar's fast setup, real-time error detection, and deep integrations with tools like Slack, Jira, and GitHub, while noting that error-grouping noise and event-volume limits that push users into higher-priced plans are the main frustrations.
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