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We're excited to announce a new payment option for customers in the United States: you can now pay for your Rollbar subscription directly from your bank account using ACH payments. This addition directly responds to your payment feedback, which sought a simpler and more secure way to manage subscription payments.

To switch to ACH, account owners can visit the 'Payment Details' section within Rollbar settings, select 'Change Payment Method,' choose ACH, and enter their bank account details. Once set up, future payments will automatically be processed from their bank account, ensuring effortless subscription management. Learn more by visiting our blog or reaching out to our support team for help.

As always, we're committed to enhancing your Rollbar experience, and as always, we welcome your feedback on this update at product@rollbar.com.

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While we started the year with a bang, we’ve slowed down to work on some of our bigger projects. If you’re curious, you can check out our public roadmap. Over this next week, we will roll out the new account settings user interface. You should see a new updated UI for the general settings page and a new teams page. This is a small part of our larger initiative to update the UI across the entire application, and if you have any feedback, please let us know by emailing us a product@rollbar.com

We’ve also released some more prominent bug fixes that have been reported. We have updated the Asana integrations, so they are working again. We’ve added the shift-select to tables on the item list so you can select a range of items. We've fixed bugs like the issue where the duplication of projects wasn’t working for users and clearing projects from the project filter.

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I know it's only been a week, but I am happy to bring you another release.

Updated Debugging Experience with Source Map Handling

We've updated our Source Map handling to make the debugging process more user-friendly. Error messages are now conveniently located in a sidebar linked to your item, complete with a “source map error” button for detailed information. Additionally, we've improved the source map pipeline to help reduce errors. Our documentation is now more directly connected to specific issues, allowing for quicker troubleshooting. Check out our blog post on these Source Map enhancements for more details.

Git Blame Integration for Assigning Issue Ownership

Integrating Git Blame data from GitHub into Rollbar's Assign Owner field, this feature suggests the recent editor of the code as the initial issue owner. This new functionality makes identifying and assigning issue owners more straightforward. Further information can be found in our blog post on Git Blame integration.

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We're introducing custom tags in OpsGenie, allowing you to use any parameter from your payload as a custom tag. This update offers more options for customizing your alerts to better fit your needs. Also, based on your feedback, Rollbar now saves your preferences on the item list, including the filter bar's state, selected columns, and the New/Reactivated Only toggle. This feature aims to provide a more consistent and tailored experience whenever you visit the item list page.

Your Feedback Matters

We encourage you to explore these new features and share your thoughts with us at product@rollbar.com. Your input helps us continue to improve and tailor our service to meet your needs.

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Greetings! Fresh from the holiday season, the Rollbar team is excited to share some great updates we've been working on. Our focus remains on enhancing your experience with Rollbar; these new features reflect just that.

Enhanced Usage Page with Graphical Insights

We're delighted to introduce graphical visualizations on the usage page, making data interpretation more intuitive. Your occurrences are displayed through daily, color-coded graphs, offering a clear view of your application's usage against the expected budget. For a deeper dive into project-level data, the projects tab now provides graphs showing usage share for your selected projects. This addition gives you a more transparent and direct understanding of your occurrences. Read more about it on our feature release blog.

Refined Service Links for Easier Access

We've also updated Service Links, focusing on efficiency and accessibility. You can quickly find Project, Item, and Occurrence IDs within Service Links. This small but impactful change is designed to help you build a custom workflow and work in tandem with our webhooks. For more on this update and examples, take a look at our latest blog post here.

Other areas of Rollbar have seen enhancements, too. The Item List functionality has been improved for better performance, particularly with custom periods on our date selector. We've also updated the UI for a cleaner look and feel on our icons and tables, addressed some locale-specific date alignment issues, and updated breadcrumbs to remember filters. For Proguard users, we've increased file upload limits to 440MB and allow for uploading of compressed files to accommodate larger files.

And last, the release of Ruby SDK 3.5.0 brings with it a handful of bug fixes, ensuring a more reliable experience for our Ruby developers.

Your insights and feedback are invaluable in shaping Rollbar's path forward. We encourage you to explore these updates and share your thoughts at product@rollbar.com. We expect to keep releasing more great features throughout 2024, so let's make it great together.

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We're excited to announce the latest release at Rollbar, featuring our highly requested Team Assignment feature and several new improvements to enhance your experience.

Advanced and Enterprise Rollbar customers can now assign teams, not just individuals, as item owners. This new feature boosts collaboration and flexibility, ensuring clarity in task ownership. It's a significant step forward in managing projects more efficiently as a team. For more details, please visit the Team Assignment blog post

In the Item Detail section, we've streamlined your workflow by resolving an issue preventing users from copying single words from the stack trace section.

On the Item List, thanks to your feedback, we made a few improvements to the experience. We've added an intuitive highlight to rows when you hover over them, making navigation and focus seamless. Additionally, identifying sortable columns is now effortless, thanks to new arrows in the headers. We've also refreshed the visual appeal of the Level icons with updated backgrounds and muted colors, providing a more aesthetically pleasing interface. Lastly, we’ve removed the small visible artifact in the Search Field for Safari users.

As we approach the holiday season and the end of the year, we extend our warmest wishes to you and your teams. May this time bring joy and relaxation, and the new year be filled with innovation and success. We're grateful for your continued support and eagerly anticipate sharing more updates in the coming year. Happy Holidays from all of us at Rollbar!

Your feedback is invaluable in guiding our improvement. Share your thoughts at product@rollbar.com. Thank you for being a vital part of our community.

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Bird Eats Bug is a screen capture tool for Product Managers, QA Testers, and end users to easily report bugs as they see them.

Now when you use Bird and Rollbar together, you can see a link to a Bird video directly from a corresponding error in Rollbar. It's much easier to understand the user's experience.

Learn more in the docs: Bird Eats Bug Integration

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We are ecstatic to release our full, stable version of the Python SDK, PyRollbar 1.0.0. This marks a significant leap from beta to our first full release, showcasing an array of enhancements and new features tailored for efficiency and performance. A big thank you to all the fantastic contributors who helped get us to this point!

This version introduces substantial performance improvements, including a novel HTTP transfer mechanism. This mechanism employs a pool of background worker threads, revolutionizing how logs and reports are transmitted to Rollbar. Additionally, we've boosted data sanitization and serialization with a batched transform approach, ensuring a more streamlined experience.

We've also decided to focus solely on Python 3, phasing out support for Python 2. This strategic shift allows us to fully embrace the advancements in Python 3. If your operations still depend on Python 2, version 0.16.x remains stable and will continue to receive security updates for at least another year.

Bug fixes have also been a priority. The SDK now effectively handles Django's sensitive_post_parameters decorator, securely scrubbing sensitive parameters. Flask users will notice the resolution of the Werkzeug Deprecation Warning with a switch from BaseRequest to Request. Additionally, we've addressed the FastAPI version comparison bug with SemVer and resolved the WSGIRequest object error in Django.

Rounding out these updates, we've made some tweaks in the Item Detail and Item List sections. You'll no longer face issues when clicking on the context graph in Item Detail; it now reliably opens the Occurrence tab. In the Item List, clicking 'Select All' or 'Select Only' in the Filter menu will close the menu automatically, and the search field maintains focus even when no results are found, keeping your workflow smooth and uninterrupted.

As always, your feedback drives our progress. Please share your thoughts at product@rollbar.com. We’re grateful for your insights, and thank you for being a vital part of our community.

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We're thrilled to announce the latest updates to Rollbar.

In our Item List, we've added a new feature allowing you to select and update the Status, Level, or Owner for all items matching your filters, not just those visible on your current screen. We think you'll find this useful so you don't have to paginate for all your filters or bulk edits. This is available for all paying accounts. We also coupled this with resolving an issue where filters weren't being stored on the first page visit, and our new updated filter icons, should enhance your navigation and filter control.

In the Item Detail section, we've fixed a critical page crash issue affecting some PHP items, so you should no longer get 500 errors on item detail pages.

Backend improvements include reinforced API endpoints for Project, Team, Access Token, Notification Rule, and Service Link creation to prevent faulty Terraform runs. Additionally, we updated our Terraform documentation, which now includes detailed guidance on configuring various notification channels.

Last we squashed a few bugs in the IP Blocklist feature, and our Slack integration now supports both new and "old-style" token-based integrations, providing you with more flexibility.

These updates are part of our commitment to continuously improving Rollbar. Your feedback is invaluable to us, so please share your thoughts at product@rollbar.com

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We're back with more updates, and given it's Halloween, we've got a treat for you —no tricks, we promise. First on the agenda is the addition of Deployment Markers to the Context Charts in Item Detail. This new feature provides you with a visual guide to better understand the relationship between code deployments and errors, helping you pinpoint issues with ease.

Moving over to the Item List, we've resolved an issue where your Item list choice was forgotten. Now, the platform will remember your settings, streamlining your workflow. We've also introduced a 'Clear' option in the Owner filter. It will activate when you select 'Assigned' or 'Unassigned,' offering you more control and flexibility over how you view your items.

Last, let's introduce the real treat, Rollbar Error Simulator iOS app. If you've ever wanted to explore Rollbar without diving into the coding weeds, this is for you. Designed for users who may not have a technical background, this app syncs effortlessly with your Rollbar account, enabling you to simulate errors with the simple tap of a button. Just create a new account, opt for the Error Simulator experience, and you'll be guided. Detailed instructions can be found in our documentation.

As always, your feedback is critical to us. We're here to make your experience with Rollbar as seamless as possible, and we can't do that without hearing from you. Don't hesitate to reach out at product@rollbar.com.

Wishing everyone a spooktacular Halloween! Thank you for being an essential part of the Rollbar community. We're dedicated to continually improving and expanding our platform to meet your evolving needs.

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It's been a busy few weeks for us. We are thrilled to announce the RQL AI Assistant, a generative AI addition to our Analyze package that simplifies your data querying experience. Now, you can input queries using natural language, bypassing the complexity of traditional RQL. Our AI Assistant offers real-time query suggestions and table schema guidance, significantly expediting your data retrieval process. The feature is currently in the experimental stages and available exclusively to Advanced package users who have agreed to the data access agreement. Enterprise customers, please get in touch with your account manager to add this feature at no additional cost.

We’re also introducing a new Snooze feature for items to manage your notifications better. Unlike the current Mute status, which indefinitely halts notifications until manually reverted, Snooze allows you to set an end date, after which notifications automatically resume. This feature still processes all occurrences and counts toward your occurrence budget—only notifications are paused. Designed in response to user feedback, the Snooze function aims to mitigate the risk of overlooking active issues while silencing notifications for a temporary period. Snooze is now available for all paid tiers; you can access the Snooze status on both the item list and item detail pages. Upgrade now to make the most of these new features, and don’t forget to share your feedback at product@rollbar.com.