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RealUptime Errors vs Bugsink

Bugsink and RealUptime Errors share a philosophy: error tracking scoped to error tracking, with tracing, session replay, and performance monitoring deliberately left out. The difference is the model. Bugsink is source-available software you run yourself, one Docker container with SQLite out of the box, speaking Sentry's SDK protocol. RealUptime Errors is hosted-only, with its own SDKs, flat pricing, and uptime monitoring and status pages in the same account.

The short version

Bugsink is the right call if you want a self-hosted, Sentry-SDK-compatible tracker in one container; RealUptime Errors is the hosted option in an account that also covers uptime and status pages.

Bugsink's pitch is credible and this page repeats it fairly: if you want your error tracker on your own hardware with your existing Sentry SDKs, one container and a DSN change gets you there, and the scope discipline (no traces, no replay) matches ours exactly. The trade is operational: self-hosted means you run it, back it up, and upgrade it, and source-available is not the same as open source, which its own comparison pages are upfront about. RealUptime Errors takes the same narrow product and hosts it: flat price, scrubbing on by default in SDKs we control end to end, and one account that also answers whether the service is up and what you told customers about it.

Start free: 10,000 events a month

Verified September 2, 2026. Sources: Bugsink website, Bugsink's own Sentry comparison (scope, license), Bugsink repository (license).

Self-hosted deployment option

Don’t have

hosted only today

Have

a single Docker container, SQLite out of the box; free to self-host under its source-available PolyForm Shield license (not an OSI open-source license)

Sentry SDK compatibility

Don’t have

our own SDKs for JavaScript, Go, PHP, Python, and Ruby; not a Sentry drop-in

Have

point existing Sentry SDKs at it by changing the DSN, per its own site

Free tier (hosted)

Have

10,000 events a month, 14-day retention

Have

hosted plans start free at 15,000 events a month, per its site

Tracing, session replay, and profiling

Don’t have

deliberately out of scope; the flat price depends on that narrowness

Don’t have

deliberately unsupported by its own account: it focuses strictly on error tracking

Data scrubbing on by default

Have

SDKs drop authorization headers, cookies, and card- and token-shaped strings before events leave your process; the server applies the same rules again

Partial

inherits whatever scrubbing the Sentry SDK you point at it is configured to do

Uptime monitoring and status pages in the same account

Have

RealUptime Monitor and RealUptime Status share the account; errors, checks, and the public page live together

Don’t have

error tracking only, by design

Deciding between Bugsink and GlitchTip instead?

Both are small, Sentry-SDK-compatible trackers people weigh against each other directly. We compare the two of them, feature by feature and sourced the same way as this page, at GlitchTip vs Bugsink.

Looking for a Bugsink alternative?

For the reasoning behind checking from more than one region at all, see why a status page can show all green during a real outage. Comparing more than just this one alternative? The status page tool checklist covers what to test before committing to any of them.

Start free: 10,000 events a month