Airbrake
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What is Airbrake
Airbrake is an error monitoring and bug tracking tool that captures application exceptions and aggregates them into actionable error groups. It is used by software teams to detect, triage, and resolve production issues across web and backend services. The product focuses on exception reporting, alerting, and workflow integrations to help teams prioritize fixes based on frequency and impact.
Strong exception aggregation workflow
Airbrake groups similar exceptions and provides occurrence counts and context to support triage. This reduces duplicate issue noise compared with basic log-based monitoring. Teams can use grouping and filtering to focus on high-impact errors and regressions.
Broad language and framework support
Airbrake provides notifiers/SDKs for common server-side and web application stacks, enabling consistent error capture across services. This helps teams standardize exception reporting without building custom collectors. It is suited to organizations running multiple languages or frameworks.
Integrations for incident response
Airbrake commonly integrates with chat, issue tracking, and notification tools to route errors to the right team. Alerting rules help teams respond when error rates spike or new errors appear. These integrations support DevOps workflows where monitoring and remediation happen continuously.
Limited full-stack APM depth
Airbrake centers on exception monitoring and does not provide the same breadth of end-to-end performance analytics as dedicated APM platforms. Teams needing distributed tracing, deep service maps, or advanced infrastructure correlation may require additional tools. This can increase operational overhead in complex environments.
Less emphasis on session replay
Compared with products that focus on frontend session replay and user interaction diagnostics, Airbrake is more oriented to stack traces and error events. For UI-heavy applications, teams may need separate tooling to reproduce issues via user-session context. This can slow debugging for client-side problems.
Workflow depends on integrations
Airbrake’s effectiveness for team collaboration often relies on connecting to external project management or ticketing systems. Organizations without established integration patterns may find triage and assignment less centralized. Some teams may prefer a more all-in-one work management experience.
Plan & Pricing
Feature packages (account-level):
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Dev | $0 per month | Free feature package; can be combined with Errors and/or APM tiers (limited free developer plan features) |
| Basic | $19 per month | Adds team/project features to chosen Errors/APM tier; annual prepay ~10% discount available |
| Pro | Starting at $76 per month* | Full admin controls, unlimited projects/users/teams, audit logs, spike forgiveness; price is calculated by adding a fixed amount to the higher of your Errors or APM tier (see note below) |
*Pro pricing note: Pro price is computed relative to the highest Error or APM tier selected (e.g., Tier 1 + $57 = $76). See vendor docs for full explanation.
Errors pricing (Tiered monthly plans):
| Tier | Price per month | Errors per month | On-demand price (per 10K errors) | Retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $19 | 25,000 | $6.50 | 30 days |
| 2 | $59 | 100,000 | $5.00 | 30 days |
| 3 | $129 | 300,000 | $3.65 | 90 days |
| 4 | $299 | 1,000,000 | $2.50 | 180 days |
| 5 | $799 | 5,000,000 | $1.33 | 180 days |
| 6 | $1,699 | 15,000,000 | $1.08 | 180 days |
| 7 | $3,299 | 25,000,000 | $1.06 | 180 days |
| 8 | $5,999 | 50,000,000 | $0.96 | 180 days |
| 9 | $8,499 | 100,000,000 | $0.68 | 180 days |
| 10 | $11,999 | 200,000,000 | $0.48 | 365 days |
APM (Performance Monitoring) pricing (Tiered monthly plans):
| Tier | Price per month | Events per month | On-demand price (per 100K events) | Retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | $0 | 50,000 | $0.00 | 7 days |
| 1 | $19 | 750,000 | $0.19 | 30 days |
| 2 | $59 | 3,000,000 | $0.15 | 30 days |
| 3 | $129 | 10,000,000 | $0.10 | 90 days |
| 4 | $299 | 30,000,000 | $0.08 | 90 days |
| 5 | $799 | 150,000,000 | $0.04 | 90 days |
| 6 | $1,699 | 1,000,000,000 | $0.01 | 90 days |
| 7 | $3,299 | 10,000,000,000 | $0.00 | 90 days |
| 8 | $5,999 | 25,000,000,000 | $0.00 | 90 days |
| 9 | $8,499 | 75,000,000,000 | $0.00 | 90 days |
| 10 | $11,999 | 125,000,000,000 | $0.00 | 90 days |
Additional notes:
- Airbrake’s pricing is modular: accounts select a Feature Package (Dev/Basic/Pro) and independently choose Error and/or APM tiers. (Docs state accounts must select an option for each product.)
- Annual prepay/options provide ~10% discount (official docs).
- On-demand usage: excess Errors/Events beyond plan quotas are billed at on-demand rates (see table above). Usage caps and spike forgiveness options are available; Pro includes spike forgiveness.
Seller details
Airbrake Technologies, Inc.
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https://airbrake.io/
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