Rollbar - Feed https://rollbar.com/ Code-first Observability Platform for JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Python and more Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:26:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 Cix’s Story with Rollbar https://rollbar.com/blog/cixs-story-with-rollbar/ Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:21:23 +0000 Melanie Burciaga https://rollbar.com/?p=6799 Commercial Insurance Exchange (CIX) is a New Zealand-based insurance brokerage that specializes in commercial property and body corporate insurance. They combine insurance expertise with a digital platform that helps property owners and managers more easily manage policies, claims, risk information, and insurance data while providing tailored coverage and claims support. 1. Can you introduce yourself, […]

The post Cix’s Story with Rollbar appeared first on Rollbar.

]]> Commercial Insurance Exchange (CIX) is a New Zealand-based insurance brokerage that specializes in commercial property and body corporate insurance. They combine insurance expertise with a digital platform that helps property owners and managers more easily manage policies, claims, risk information, and insurance data while providing tailored coverage and claims support. 1. Can you introduce yourself, […]

The post Cix’s Story with Rollbar appeared first on Rollbar.

]]> Bugsnag Alternatives in 2026: A Practical Comparison for Teams That Ship Fast https://rollbar.com/blog/bugsnag-alternatives/ Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:00:22 +0000 rollbarnew https://rollbar.com/?p=6471 Bugsnag has been a solid error monitoring choice for years, especially for mobile teams shipping on iOS, Android, and game engines like Unity. But if you’re reading this, something isn’t working anymore. Maybe your bill jumped after SmartBear folded Bugsnag into its broader platform. Maybe you’ve outgrown breadcrumb-based debugging and want session replay without bolting […]

The post Bugsnag Alternatives in 2026: A Practical Comparison for Teams That Ship Fast appeared first on Rollbar.

]]> Bugsnag has been a solid error monitoring choice for years, especially for mobile teams shipping on iOS, Android, and game engines like Unity. But if you’re reading this, something isn’t working anymore. Maybe your bill jumped after SmartBear folded Bugsnag into its broader platform. Maybe you’ve outgrown breadcrumb-based debugging and want session replay without bolting […]

The post Bugsnag Alternatives in 2026: A Practical Comparison for Teams That Ship Fast appeared first on Rollbar.

]]> Campsy’s Story with Rollbar https://rollbar.com/blog/campsy-story-with-rollbar/ Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:18:53 +0000 Melanie Burciaga https://rollbar.com/?p=6746 Campsy is an online marketplace that helps parents find, compare, and book children's camps and summer programs through one platform, with verified listings, secure payments, and user reviews. Their goal is to make discovering and registering for camps easier and more trustworthy for families while helping camp organizers reach more customers. 1. Can you introduce […]

The post Campsy’s Story with Rollbar appeared first on Rollbar.

]]> Campsy is an online marketplace that helps parents find, compare, and book children's camps and summer programs through one platform, with verified listings, secure payments, and user reviews. Their goal is to make discovering and registering for camps easier and more trustworthy for families while helping camp organizers reach more customers. 1. Can you introduce […]

The post Campsy’s Story with Rollbar appeared first on Rollbar.

]]> Ruby vs. Python (Why Python Won and Ruby Didn’t) https://rollbar.com/blog/ruby-vs-python/ Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:08:04 +0000 Doug Pierce https://rollbar.com/?p=6756 In 2006, the TIOBE Index crowned Ruby its Language of the Year for posting the fastest growth rate of anything on the list. Two decades later, it's settled in around #20 - respectable, but a long way down from where it once stood. Ruby went from "the future of programming" to "wait, people still use […]

The post Ruby vs. Python (Why Python Won and Ruby Didn’t) appeared first on Rollbar.

]]> In 2006, the TIOBE Index crowned Ruby its Language of the Year for posting the fastest growth rate of anything on the list. Two decades later, it's settled in around #20 - respectable, but a long way down from where it once stood. Ruby went from "the future of programming" to "wait, people still use […]

The post Ruby vs. Python (Why Python Won and Ruby Didn’t) appeared first on Rollbar.

]]> What Ruby Logging Best Practices Leave Out https://rollbar.com/blog/ruby-logging-best-practices/ Tue, 30 Jun 2026 07:43:52 +0000 Doug Pierce https://rollbar.com/?p=6752 The gap between "our logs follow every best practice" and "I can actually find what's wrong, fast" is what I want to write about here. I'll go through the standard checklist first, because it is worth doing. Then I want to talk about the part that checklist doesn't cover. The Ruby logging best practices I […]

The post What Ruby Logging Best Practices Leave Out appeared first on Rollbar.

]]> The gap between "our logs follow every best practice" and "I can actually find what's wrong, fast" is what I want to write about here. I'll go through the standard checklist first, because it is worth doing. Then I want to talk about the part that checklist doesn't cover. The Ruby logging best practices I […]

The post What Ruby Logging Best Practices Leave Out appeared first on Rollbar.

]]> Purpose-Built Error Monitoring Alternative to New Relic https://rollbar.com/blog/purpose-built-error-monitoring-alternative-to-new-relic/ Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 rollbarnew https://rollbar.wpengine.com/purpose-built-error-monitoring-alternative-to-new-relic/ Engineering teams regularly ask us: "We already have New Relic. Why would we add Rollbar?" The honest answer is that they solve different problems. New Relic is a full-stack observability platform built to monitor infrastructure, application performance, and distributed traces across your entire stack. Rollbar is a specialized error intelligence platform built to help you understand why errors happen, reproduce them faster, and resolve them before they compound.

The post Purpose-Built Error Monitoring Alternative to New Relic appeared first on Rollbar.

]]> Engineering teams regularly ask us: "We already have New Relic. Why would we add Rollbar?" The honest answer is that they solve different problems. New Relic is a full-stack observability platform built to monitor infrastructure, application performance, and distributed traces across your entire stack. Rollbar is a specialized error intelligence platform built to help you understand why errors happen, reproduce them faster, and resolve them before they compound.

The post Purpose-Built Error Monitoring Alternative to New Relic appeared first on Rollbar.

]]> Python Error Tracking for Django, Flask, and FastAPI: A Practical Setup Guide https://rollbar.com/blog/python-error-tracking-for-django-flask-and-fastapi-a-practical-setup-guide/ Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:14:16 +0000 rollbarnew https://rollbar.com/?p=6426 Your Python app is throwing errors in production right now. Some of them are obvious: a 500 response, an angry Slack message from support. But most are quiet. A background task swallows an exception. A race condition surfaces only under load. A third-party API returns unexpected data and your code handles it by not handling […]

The post Python Error Tracking for Django, Flask, and FastAPI: A Practical Setup Guide appeared first on Rollbar.

]]> Your Python app is throwing errors in production right now. Some of them are obvious: a 500 response, an angry Slack message from support. But most are quiet. A background task swallows an exception. A race condition surfaces only under load. A third-party API returns unexpected data and your code handles it by not handling […]

The post Python Error Tracking for Django, Flask, and FastAPI: A Practical Setup Guide appeared first on Rollbar.

]]> LumaBooth’s Story with Rollbar https://rollbar.com/blog/lumabooth-story-with-rollbar/ Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:13:28 +0000 Melanie Burciaga https://rollbar.com/?p=6418 LumaBooth provides photo booth software for event businesses, enabling them to create and manage photo, video, GIF, and 360° booth experiences with customizable branding, instant sharing, printing, and cloud-based event galleries. 1. Can you introduce yourself, and tell us about your team or company? I'm Michael Sleman, founder of Lumasoft. We make LumaBooth, photo booth […]

The post LumaBooth’s Story with Rollbar appeared first on Rollbar.

]]> LumaBooth provides photo booth software for event businesses, enabling them to create and manage photo, video, GIF, and 360° booth experiences with customizable branding, instant sharing, printing, and cloud-based event galleries. 1. Can you introduce yourself, and tell us about your team or company? I'm Michael Sleman, founder of Lumasoft. We make LumaBooth, photo booth […]

The post LumaBooth’s Story with Rollbar appeared first on Rollbar.

]]> Sentry vs. Rollbar Pricing: The Hidden Cost of Expanding Beyond Error Monitoring https://rollbar.com/blog/sentry-vs-rollbar-pricing-the-hidden-cost-of-expanding-beyond-error-monitoring/ Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:44:08 +0000 rollbarnew https://rollbar.com/?p=6414 When evaluating error monitoring tools, most teams start with the monthly price. That’s understandable. Pricing pages are easy to compare, and the entry point often feels like the most important number. But over time, a different question tends to matter more: What happens as our team relies on the platform more? As applications grow, teams […]

The post Sentry vs. Rollbar Pricing: The Hidden Cost of Expanding Beyond Error Monitoring appeared first on Rollbar.

]]> When evaluating error monitoring tools, most teams start with the monthly price. That’s understandable. Pricing pages are easy to compare, and the entry point often feels like the most important number. But over time, a different question tends to matter more: What happens as our team relies on the platform more? As applications grow, teams […]

The post Sentry vs. Rollbar Pricing: The Hidden Cost of Expanding Beyond Error Monitoring appeared first on Rollbar.

]]> You don’t need a paid plan to use AI Root Cause Analysis https://rollbar.com/blog/you-dont-need-a-paid-plan-to-use-ai-root-cause-analysis/ Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:00:55 +0000 rollbarnew https://rollbar.com/?p=6411 When an error appears in production, the hardest part often isn’t seeing what broke. It’s understanding why. That’s why we built Root Cause Analysis (RCA). It helps connect the dots between an error and its likely cause, so you can spend less time investigating and more time moving forward. Until now, RCA was only available […]

The post You don’t need a paid plan to use AI Root Cause Analysis appeared first on Rollbar.

]]> When an error appears in production, the hardest part often isn’t seeing what broke. It’s understanding why. That’s why we built Root Cause Analysis (RCA). It helps connect the dots between an error and its likely cause, so you can spend less time investigating and more time moving forward. Until now, RCA was only available […]

The post You don’t need a paid plan to use AI Root Cause Analysis appeared first on Rollbar.

]]> There Is No Good Spring Boot Alternative (Unless You’re Doing One of These Three Things) https://rollbar.com/blog/spring-boot-alternatives/ Sun, 31 May 2026 09:46:33 +0000 Doug Pierce https://rollbar.com/?p=6415 Every few months a new "we migrated off Spring Boot" post washes across r/java or DZone. The numbers are always impressive. 60% memory reduction, 85% faster startup, cloud bill cut in half. The comments are always full of developers convinced they should be doing the same thing. Is Spring Boot really that bad now? I […]

The post There Is No Good Spring Boot Alternative (Unless You’re Doing One of These Three Things) appeared first on Rollbar.

]]> Every few months a new "we migrated off Spring Boot" post washes across r/java or DZone. The numbers are always impressive. 60% memory reduction, 85% faster startup, cloud bill cut in half. The comments are always full of developers convinced they should be doing the same thing. Is Spring Boot really that bad now? I […]

The post There Is No Good Spring Boot Alternative (Unless You’re Doing One of These Three Things) appeared first on Rollbar.

]]> Best React Frameworks in 2026: Data from 127 Job Posts https://rollbar.com/blog/best-react-frameworks/ Tue, 12 May 2026 05:11:13 +0000 Doug Pierce https://rollbar.com/?p=6396 Opinions about the "best" React framework are like linting configs: everyone has one, and everyone thinks theirs is correct. So instead of adding to the noise, we did something slightly more useful - we scraped 127 React developer job postings from Google Jobs (the max available in the past month) and pulled out every framework […]

The post Best React Frameworks in 2026: Data from 127 Job Posts appeared first on Rollbar.

]]> Opinions about the "best" React framework are like linting configs: everyone has one, and everyone thinks theirs is correct. So instead of adding to the noise, we did something slightly more useful - we scraped 127 React developer job postings from Google Jobs (the max available in the past month) and pulled out every framework […]

The post Best React Frameworks in 2026: Data from 127 Job Posts appeared first on Rollbar.

]]> Versions and Deploys Now Live on Your Dashboard https://rollbar.com/blog/versions-and-deploys-now-live-on-your-dashboard/ Thu, 07 May 2026 15:01:21 +0000 rollbarnew https://rollbar.com/?p=6395 Your version and deploy health data no longer lives on separate pages. Versions and Deploys are now Dashboard cards, visible by default the next time you open Rollbar. Errors, versions, and deploys in one view, no more tab-hopping to piece together release health. What’s changing The Dashboard now includes dedicated Versions and Deploys cards alongside […]

The post Versions and Deploys Now Live on Your Dashboard appeared first on Rollbar.

]]> Your version and deploy health data no longer lives on separate pages. Versions and Deploys are now Dashboard cards, visible by default the next time you open Rollbar. Errors, versions, and deploys in one view, no more tab-hopping to piece together release health. What’s changing The Dashboard now includes dedicated Versions and Deploys cards alongside […]

The post Versions and Deploys Now Live on Your Dashboard appeared first on Rollbar.

]]> Your AI Coding Assistant Can’t See Production Errors. Here’s How to Fix That. https://rollbar.com/blog/your-ai-coding-assistant-cant-see-production-errors-heres-how-to-fix-that/ Mon, 04 May 2026 19:53:29 +0000 rollbarnew https://rollbar.com/?p=6393 You’ve connected your AI coding assistant to your codebase, your docs, maybe even your internal wiki. It can autocomplete functions, explain unfamiliar code, and scaffold new features. But ask it what’s actually breaking in production right now, and it has nothing. No stack traces, no error trends, no idea which deploy introduced the regression your […]

The post Your AI Coding Assistant Can’t See Production Errors. Here’s How to Fix That. appeared first on Rollbar.

]]> You’ve connected your AI coding assistant to your codebase, your docs, maybe even your internal wiki. It can autocomplete functions, explain unfamiliar code, and scaffold new features. But ask it what’s actually breaking in production right now, and it has nothing. No stack traces, no error trends, no idea which deploy introduced the regression your […]

The post Your AI Coding Assistant Can’t See Production Errors. Here’s How to Fix That. appeared first on Rollbar.

]]>