Bugsnag

Error monitoring for software teams

Engineering teams use Bugsnag to catch, rank and help fix errors across mobile apps, browsers, front-end code and back-end systems, with everything held on one platform. Its own pages place it inside the SmartBear group of products. The company describes its aim as giving engineering teams a clear picture of application stability, so they can see which bugs matter and which can wait.

The product presents a stability score as a definitive measure of app health and a common language for product and engineering teams. The score helps a team weigh fixing bugs against building new features, and the company says its observability insights support that decision.

Diagnostics and error assignment

Each error arrives with rich, end-to-end diagnostics so that developers can reproduce it. Breadcrumbs, stack traces and details of affected users and devices are included. Errors can be routed automatically to the right team, which the company says streamlines triage in applications that several teams work on at once. Customer segments can be used to focus effort on the errors that affect the most important users.

Performance and tracing

The product also measures rendering, memory and CPU use, plus how long the app takes to launch and each screen takes to load. Tracing follows a request through API calls, database queries and microservice steps, and presents them as waterfall graphs. Bugsnag says it is compatible with OpenTelemetry, an open standard for telemetry data.

Libraries for many platforms

The company says it provides error reporting libraries for more than 50 platforms. Its material names Android, iOS, Kotlin, React Native and Unity among the mobile and game platforms, React, Vue, Angular and Ember among web frameworks, and Go, Laravel, Python, Node.js and .NET among server-side options. Each library has documentation for setting it up.

Teams and scale of use

Bugsnag describes its users as engineering teams that build mobile, web and game applications. It says more than 6,000 engineering teams use the platform to monitor app health, and that it is built for the volume of sessions and errors found in large enterprise applications. The company also offers a guided walkthrough for enterprise customers.