Item: Airbrake
Rating: 8
Author: Wesley Sprague

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Whole org, it allows us to efficiently debug issues especially during content delivery. It makes pinpointing errors very easy and the custom aggregations are fantastic. We have implemented Airbrake across multiple applications, we rely often on it when writing code in order to raise issues that may be unexpected during deployment.

Pros and Cons

Logs Errors
Provides backtraces
Custom Aggregations of Airbrake Messages
User Friendly

Search Functionality could be improved
Environment Param should be a drop down rather than a manually typed search field

Most Important Features

Custom Aggregation
Multiple Applications
Notifications

Return on Investment

Increased Ability to Identify Errors
Support for gathering more information on bugs and issues
Post Deployment Confidence

Alternatives Considered

Not applicable to me

Key Insights

Do you think Airbrake delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Airbrake's feature set?

Yes

Did Airbrake live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Airbrake go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Airbrake again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

Its great at logging errors and exceptions, it gives very detailed information as to number of occurrences, time of occurrences, backtrace information, the request params and the ability to aggregate by certain criteria, it even provides for custom aggregate fields. It is less appropriate if you are expecting to use it as logs, while it is great at exception and error handling, logging everything to Airbrake is not a good idea as it quickly becomes too cluttered

Airbrake the Bug Smasher

Overall Satisfaction with Airbrake