Rollbar

Error monitoring platform that groups errors, links session replays and releases, and can suggest fixes.

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Rollbar collects the errors and exceptions your app throws in production and turns thousands of raw reports into a short list of distinct problems. You see which errors are new, which returned, and how many users each affects.

You add a Rollbar SDK to each app and give it a project access token. Officially supported SDKs cover JavaScript in the browser and Node.js (with React, Angular and Vue guides), Python, PHP, Ruby, Go, Java and Android, .NET and Apple platforms. Each report is an "occurrence", and a grouping engine trained with machine learning merges occurrences from the same error into an "item". You can merge items by hand or write your own fingerprint rules when the defaults group wrongly.

Useful pieces for a small team: browser session replays and telemetry breadcrumbs showing what happened before an error; deploy tracking that links errors to the release and commits that introduced them (your CI has to report each deploy through the API); person tracking for affected users; RQL, a SQL-like language for querying your error data; and an MCP server. Resolve, an AI agent now in open beta, investigates an error and opens a pull request with a proposed fix, running on separate credits.

Limits: Rollbar is focused on errors rather than full tracing or log management. Telemetry breadcrumbs exist only in the JavaScript, iOS and .NET SDKs, the free plan keeps occurrence data for 30 days, and SAML single sign-on and HIPAA BAAs require higher-tier plans.

Where it fits

Error Monitoring · Hosted serviceError grouping tied to releases, with session replays linked to errors.Trade-off: Smaller ecosystem of integrations and guides than Sentry.

How Rollbar itself is built

6 tools, from its own code, website and Product Hunt page.

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Who uses it

6 makers' products, each linked to the source that shows it, and 16 open-source projects that declare it in their code.

The maker says so 1Customer story 2Subprocessor list 3Declared in code 16How evidence is collected →

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“Rollbar for error monitoring and alerts .”

Error MonitoringMaker says so · source ↗

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Open source: a project that declares Rollbar as a dependency in its public code — verifiable, but not necessarily a live product.

Loved and watch-outs

Themes that recur in makers' words and Hacker News comments, each linked to what it summarises.

Most loved

It alerts right after a deploy when something breaks, which teams rely on for continuous delivery. rollbar.com Starter Story
Uploaded source maps turn minified JavaScript errors into readable file and line numbers. HN rollbar.com
Dashboards, muting and role-based alert controls help teams manage alerts without fatigue. HN
The free tier is generous. HN

Watch-outs

Some developers find it too simple compared with fuller error trackers. HN

Reliability and open issues

Incidents on its status page2 in the last 90 days · 13 in the last year

minor Increased occurrence processing pipeline latency Sep 2026
minor Widespread incident impacting multiple parts of our platform caused by an incident within our cloud provider Sep 2026
minor Increased occurrence processing pipeline latency Jun 2026

From its own status page, 2026-10-02. Vendors decide what they post; one page can cover several products.

Who switches

Public pull requests on GitHub since Oct 2024 whose title says "X to Y" — real code changes moving a project from one tool to another, by developers in general. Open a row to see the pull requests.

Rollbar → Sentry4 PRs

Switch error monitoring from Rollbar to Sentryneinteractiveliterature/larp_library · 2026-09-03
refactor: migrate Rollbar to Sentry for error tracking and telemetrydianlight/srat · 2026-05-20
Convert rollbar to sentrymixpanel/docs-legacy · 2025-07-18
Migrate from Rollbar to Sentryjetstreamapp/jetstream · 2025-03-30

Rollbar vs Sentry compared →All matching pull requests on GitHub ↗

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PostHogError tracking in the same tool as your product analytics and session replays, so an exception links to what the user did.Open sourceFree tier

On Product Hunt, people weigh it against: Sentry, Highlight.

Questions makers ask about Rollbar

Which languages and frameworks are supported?

Rollbar maintains SDKs for JavaScript (browser and Node.js, with React, Angular and Vue guides), Python, PHP, Ruby, Go, Java and Android, .NET and Apple platforms; some frameworks, such as Svelte, are community supported. source ↗

How long does Rollbar keep my error data?

By default, occurrence data is kept up to 180 days on paid plans (the exact period depends on the plan) and 30 days on the free plan. Owners on paid plans can choose a shorter period, after which data is permanently deleted or redacted. source ↗

Is Rollbar HIPAA compliant?

Rollbar's Compliant SaaS environment follows HIPAA and the HITECH Act, and Rollbar signs a Business Associate Agreement at no extra cost, starting with the annually billed Advanced 4M plan. It also follows ISO 27001 controls. source ↗

Does Rollbar support SAML single sign-on?

Yes, on Advanced and Enterprise plans, with guides for Okta and OneLogin including SCIM provisioning, and OIDC SSO. source ↗

What if errors are grouped incorrectly?

You can merge items manually or write custom grouping rules (fingerprints) on top of the default machine-learning grouping. source ↗

Does Rollbar detect my deploys automatically?

No. Your CI/CD tool has to call Rollbar's deploy API on each release; once it does, Rollbar shows deploy history, undeployed commits and the deploy suspected of causing an error. source ↗

What does Rollbar Resolve need?

Resolve is in open public beta on every plan, including Free, but needs an active credit subscription with available credits and the GitHub App installed. It runs root-cause analysis and can open a pull request after running your tests. source ↗

Is Rollbar free?

Yes — there is a free tier a small product can run on; paid use starts at $9/mo. source ↗

Is Rollbar open source or self-hostable?

Not open source, and hosted only.

Can AI coding agents work with Rollbar?

It serves an llms.txt docs index.

Who uses Rollbar?

6 makers' products we track, each with a source, and 16 open-source projects declare it in their code. source ↗