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What are you moving to?
A mix of syslog, nagios, munin, etc
If you don't like something about it, I'm always happy to accept pull requests :)
Whoa! The cheapest Airbrake account costs $79! Are there alternatives to Airbrak & Exceptional?
Does anyone have any experience with http://atechmedia.com/exceptions ? It seems to be free and compatible with the Airbrake (Hoptoad) API.
Errbit (https://github.com/errbit/errbit) is an open source and free alternative, which is self-hosted. It's also compatible with the Airbrake API.
It's easy to set up in a few minutes, either on heroku, or on your own server. As well as being free, you can store your potentially private data in-house, and customize and integrate it as much as you want.
Is there a reason to use any of these services given how trivial it is to set up an open source alternative? You can push errbit to heroku in 5 minutes and you're done. Perhaps there is a level of service here and a business I don't see, and I'm a huge heroku and third party service user, but I don't see the need for a monthly service fee to aggregate and send exception notifications. It's either a self deploy or a f…
It all depends on how much you value your own time. It never takes just 5 min. And over the course of a year it migh easily take hour(s) of development time that is better spent on improving you product. Heroku does the same thing for example. They are quite expensive if you compare them to running on raw ec2, but when you factor in the time that you need to spend to build and maintain your own infrastructure Heroku…
That's a great point about Heroku though - there should definitely be an open source EC2 framework that provides a similar infrastructure...