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RealUptime Errors vs GlitchTip

GlitchTip is an open-source, Sentry-API-compatible error tracker you can self-host for free or use hosted at a low per-event price. It is honest, simple software and this page treats it that way. RealUptime Errors is hosted-only, flat-priced, and part of a family that also covers uptime monitoring and status pages, with sensitive-data scrubbing on by default in our own SDKs.

Open-source, self-hostable code

Don’t have

hosted only today

Have

MIT-licensed; run it yourself for free with Docker

Sentry SDK compatibility

Don’t have

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

Have

accepts events from existing Sentry SDKs; switching is a DSN change

Free tier (hosted)

Have

10,000 events a month, 14-day retention

Have

a free hosted tier with a monthly event allowance

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

Partial

GlitchTip ships basic uptime monitoring; there is no public status page product

Looking for a GlitchTip 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.