# Rollbar Reviews **Vendor:** Rollbar **Category:** [Bug Tracking Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/bug-tracking) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 172 ## About Rollbar Go beyond crash reporting, error tracking, logging and error monitoring. Get instant and accurate alerts — plus a real-time feed — of all errors, including unhandled exceptions. Our automation-grade grouping uses machine learning to reduce noise and gives you error signals you can trust. ## Rollbar Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users find the **easy setup** of Rollbar straightforward, eliminating the learning curve associated with other tools. (1 reviews) - Users find the **setup process effortless** , with no steep learning curve compared to other tools. (1 reviews) - Users find Rollbar to be a **simple tool to set up** , with no learning curve required compared to other tools. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users experience **mismatched error titles and descriptions** , requiring manual verification which complicates error handling. (1 reviews) ## Rollbar Reviews ### 1. Rollbar has been invaluable in helping us track and understand clientside JS errors **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 02, 2016 **What do you like best about Rollbar?** Rollbar is simple, powerful, and their support has been absolutely top-notch, with people frequently going above and beyond to lend us a hand with things. Rollbar's client-side JS library and its ability to (with a single config flag) capture uncaught JS errors has been a godsend for us. **What do you dislike about Rollbar?** There's not a lot to criticize here – perhaps the web-UI could use a coat of paint (it looks to me like it's built on a lightly-modified Bootstrap template), but that's really a cosmetic issue. **Recommendations to others considering Rollbar:** Rollbar is powerful, well-priced, and invaluable. It's absolutely worth trying. It's also quite powerful and extensible – we use it primarily to catch uncaught client-side JS error's, but it's equally useful as a reporting tool to capture various pieces of debug information, and has libraries allowing for tracking of server-side errors in many languages. **What problems is Rollbar solving and how is that benefiting you?** Rollbar's client-side JS error catching library is basically a drop-in one-liner that allows you to start capturing nearly all uncaught JS errors without any code modification. With very little work we were able to start capturing the errors that were previously slipping through the cracks and going unnoticed. ### 2. Great error tracking tool! **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel A. | Co-Founder, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 15, 2015 **What do you like best about Rollbar?** I really like the fact that Rollbar is easy to integrate and implement in your codebase. They have various modules for Ruby and NodeJS which makes setup a breeze. The user interface makes it easy to know what's happening as well as organizing these error traces. The stage tab is really a welcome addition **What do you dislike about Rollbar?** It took some time for me to see some really cool features on the dashboard. I think Rollbar team can create some more docs to highlight some of these features. **Recommendations to others considering Rollbar:** Rollbar is a great tool for tracking errors that occur in your application, and with its rich interface and analysis, you will be a few steps away from figuring out these errors and resolving them. **What problems is Rollbar solving and how is that benefiting you?** I want to be on top of errors that occur in my product. For a language like JavaScript for example is can be a real pain trying to figure out certain errors. I've realized that Rollbar makes it easy to track these stubborn errors. ### 3. Adaptable and reliable error support **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alexander R. | Academic Advisor, Higher Education, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 02, 2016 **What do you like best about Rollbar?** My favorite aspects of this software is the adaptability between different programing languages and the automatic notifications. **What do you dislike about Rollbar?** The software is mainly suited for the smaller business, which isn't really a complaint, but a cloud based software would be better suited for the needs of the many. **Recommendations to others considering Rollbar:** Test it out and provide feedback to the developers. Freemium software is a great option. **What problems is Rollbar solving and how is that benefiting you?** Error tracking and support ### 4. Really indispensable tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stefano Z. | Software Developer, Food & Beverages, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2016 **What do you like best about Rollbar?** The fact that it's easy to go from an error to the line of code that generated it. It's reliability and speed. The user agent and query parameter reporting. The possibility to run queries among a certain error occurrence to find common denominators. **What do you dislike about Rollbar?** Error grouping could be improved a bit, sometimes the same error in considered as new while instead it already happened with maybe some small bits changed. RQL is great and I'd like to see if work in full, the missing bits would be really helpful to us. **Recommendations to others considering Rollbar:** I don't think there's much to think about. I consider it a no-brainer if you're serious about error reporting. **What problems is Rollbar solving and how is that benefiting you?** Hiding errors conditions to end-users. Being able to track down error occurrences, the context that generated them and how often they happen. ### 5. It's a mess developing a webapp without Rollbar! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bruno A. | Head Developer, Internet, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 09, 2015 **What do you like best about Rollbar?** - easy to deploy - several deployment scenarios - good insights on errors - good notification settings - possibility to ignore the same error "family" - possibility to comment in each error - the live items viewer is simply awesome! **What do you dislike about Rollbar?** - Deploying users should be hook up to Rollbar users is username is the same as an existing user in that account; - Deploy could actually have an external link so we could link to our own documentation when releasing; - To many script updates (in a short time), the update should be easier (ex. having a central repository in Rollbar for each major version) **Recommendations to others considering Rollbar:** If you're trying to find a tool that can catch both server and client side errors, Rollbar it your MacGyver tool for it, no doubts about it! It helps us from having users that couldn't make orders to be able to run smoothly even on mobile platforms, the output is awesome and we can easily track what is going on with each and every error. **What problems is Rollbar solving and how is that benefiting you?** - client and server side errors that we, not so proudly, skip them in development and testing making it easier to create a release and fix the errors with the most hits in the month - weird errors that only happen "on-the-server" are easily caught, all those hard errors that only happen in the production environment are so easily caught with Rollbar - cross browsing testing is a lot easier as we can see the browser used and fix those naughty errors - api errors that run as Windows Service that could be harder to log ### 6. The best error tracking service - hands down! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Raghavender Rao J. | CEO & Co-founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2015 **What do you like best about Rollbar?** I have used TrackJS, Sentry and other error tracking but nothing can match the simplicity of Rollbar. As a JavaScript developer, error tracking is a crucial part of my workflow and since using Rollbar we have been able to track all user-end JS errors across our entire application stack in just one simple dashboard. It is the most clean and easy-to-use which helped make my life as a JS developer easy. **What do you dislike about Rollbar?** The frontend RollBar JS script works flawlessly, but for server side error tracking, we had to write a custom plugin for grails and little documentation was available to help us achieve this. I heard that their Rails support is top-notch. I just wish the same with their grails support. There is nothing else to dislike about Rollbar. Just get some support for Grails and I would give a 10/10 :) **Recommendations to others considering Rollbar:** Rollbar saved us a lot of time by tracking the errors for us. WIthout it, we would be spending countless man hours on testing and debugging user-end errors. Also, it helped us keep our errors organized. I would highly recommend using Rollbar to track all JS and server side errors on your next project. **What problems is Rollbar solving and how is that benefiting you?** We've deployed RollBar across all of our staging and production environments just once and it just keeps tracking all errors and we currently use several third-party integrations to develop a very powerful workflow around this. ### 7. One-stop product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ross D. | Presidential Innovation Fellow, Government Administration, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2015 **What do you like best about Rollbar?** Nice management of multiple environments (easy to switch between dev, staging, prod, etc.) and multiple reporting techniques (e.g. Ruby library and rollbar.js for client-side reporting). Ability to include arbitrary meta data in reports. Nice GitHub integration (suggests suspect deploys). Great ability to manage alerts (acknowledge, resolve, mute, record comments, see history and frequency — makes it a great tool for a multi-person devops team). Easy Heroku integration too. **What do you dislike about Rollbar?** The "mute" feature doesn't always seem to work. Can take some tinkering to get meta data to come across in event reports (e.g. user identities, etc.), especially if you want it to be consistent between the server and client sides — not difficult, just a bit manual (no slick out-of-the-box Rails config that I've found). The product has matured a lot, but there are the occasional "flighty" things that happen (to be expected when putting a slick UI on top of big data). **Recommendations to others considering Rollbar:** Start with the free plan on Heroku if you don't have much volume yet. **What problems is Rollbar solving and how is that benefiting you?** Consolidate all bug reporting into one place. Ability to log arbitrary events if desired. ### 8. Easy to setup error catching service **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Richard Y. | Senior Software Engineer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2016 **What do you like best about Rollbar?** Easy to setup, simple to understand emails, good error reporting. Free service too. **What do you dislike about Rollbar?** Nothing right now, it's a pretty good product. **What problems is Rollbar solving and how is that benefiting you?** Catching errors quickly and responding to them. ### 9. Easy to implement, Hits all the Requirements **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mike B. | Managing Partner, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2015 **What do you like best about Rollbar?** Roller's pricing structure is fair. It delivers most of the same functionality as Bugsnag for a third of the price. Integration of Roller is a snap using Jens Segers Rollbar package for Laravel. Adding the front-end JS from the Rollbar docs is also straightforward. Implementation should take no longer than 10 minutes. **What do you dislike about Rollbar?** The user interface in Rollbar is a bit dated. But it works. I don't like the side-scrolling lower half of the page that contains the error occurrences, but it works. **Recommendations to others considering Rollbar:** Give it a try. Its free if you don't exceed a certain threshold. And honestly if you keep your exceptions to a minimum in your apps, you can host error handling for 10s of apps for free. **What problems is Rollbar solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Rollbar in mine and client projects. ### 10. Essential tool for any app in production **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Krzysztof H. | Co-founder, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2015 **What do you like best about Rollbar?** It's extremely useful to find bugs in production fast. It groups similiar bugs and shows tons of useful information about any incidents both in front-end and backend part of applications. It's also easy to integrate into your apps. It's also very easy to plug it into Slack or whatever other tools you have. They have a pleasant API and provide webhooks for events. **What do you dislike about Rollbar?** It's very easy to go above your plan by runaway events and sometimes it groups unrelated bugs together. Front-end integration also needs improvements and third party plugins for various frameworks (eg. Symfony2) might need some additional support. **Recommendations to others considering Rollbar:** Limit your daily event number to something sane. **What problems is Rollbar solving and how is that benefiting you?** It makes us sure that our production environment stays bug-free. ### 11. Get valuable insights from your project! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Douglas O. | Software Developer Trainee, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2015 **What do you like best about Rollbar?** Very fast notification of when your software is not working as expected for your users. Instead of losing the errors in a huge log, Rollbar presents your with a very beautiful listing, which you can organize in many ways. Also it's very nice that you can provide a method to identify the users in each request and track if a defined user is having a bad experience in your software because of unexpected errors or just track all the errors he is getting for a better investigation. **What do you dislike about Rollbar?** The only confusing part that I found is some sort of confusion when dealing with teams and projects: they are way too much tied to the other and interface is not clear. I think this part can still be improved. For example, I can't just visit the Dashboard without having a project and to have a project I need a team. I just want to be able to create a personal project no tied no any team and also be able to move it to a team later if I need to. **Recommendations to others considering Rollbar:** Use and abuse of Rollbar. Get insights of errors that are shown to your users and/or create your custom errors if you need to. You will be surprised by how fast and important the feedback is. Remember to configure properly the data required to use the Person feature, it's awesome! **What problems is Rollbar solving and how is that benefiting you?** We got fast feedback when, by our mistake, users were getting Internal Servers Errors in a production environment. This enable us to quickly fix some issues and track better weird long-time issues that we couldn't find the cause earlier. Users happy equals a happy client and a happy company. ### 12. Your production vigilante **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David G. | CoFounder, CTO, Lead Developer, Health, Wellness and Fitness, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 22, 2015 **What do you like best about Rollbar?** Rollbar catches every error in your production environment. They do their job, they does it reliably and they do it fast. Also, integration is a breathe. **What do you dislike about Rollbar?** I miss the ability to group different similar errors into the same. Muted errors also become unmuted after a certain number of occurrences. **What problems is Rollbar solving and how is that benefiting you?** Any sane devops department is blind without a service without a service such as the one provided by Rollbar. We could roll out our own using open source, but Rollbar lets us concentrate in our product and our customers. ### 13. Useful for gauging frontend issues **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2015 **What do you like best about Rollbar?** The administrative interface is easy to navigate. There are helpful alerts, and the option to integrate with the browser to report frontend JS errors is very useful. Resolving items in commits is also a nice feature to have. For the backend, it's a pretty reliable place to monitor after a production push. Every engineer is required to be on an oncall shift, so we rely heavily on Rollbar when we run into an error with our Django application. **What do you dislike about Rollbar?** We bundle our JS, so some of the reports of stack traces are hard to decipher. It'd be nice to do a Pretty Print (much like how Chrome Developer Tools does) and grab the chunk that was throwing the error. It would be nice it also had an integration with JIRA that would automatically assign an issue to the person who last touched the file that the error comes from. While the interface is pretty easy to navigate, I would like to see more product features added to the product. More visualizes/graphs. **Recommendations to others considering Rollbar:** It will absolutely help you, but I hope they keep iterating on the product to stay relevant in the competitive landscape that is error reporting for applications. It's also useful for frontend error reporting. **What problems is Rollbar solving and how is that benefiting you?** In an effort to reduce opaqueness from our frontend, we looked into a number of alternative solutions and considered rolling our own solution, until we realized that Rollbar has the ability to track and report frontend errors. We have realized that we can run Rollbar in our staging environment and catch errors before they make it to production which is also very useful. ### 14. Great and simple error tracking. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2015 **What do you like best about Rollbar?** I like the wide variety of languages supported by Rollbar. It is simple to use and integrate. **What do you dislike about Rollbar?** The discovery process is sometimes obtuse. Disparate events are sometimes clustered together, and it's hard to collate the original error messages to determine the ultimate cause of the problems. **Recommendations to others considering Rollbar:** Make sure integration is set up so that errors can be grouped appropriately. **What problems is Rollbar solving and how is that benefiting you?** Discovering bugs that have made it to production. Rollbar has helped identify and find the causes of many errors. ### 15. It just works **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2015 **What do you like best about Rollbar?** The JS & Ruby reporters are great. The ui groups the errors efficiently. **What do you dislike about Rollbar?** There's some UX issues here and there but nothing critical **What problems is Rollbar solving and how is that benefiting you?** We process orders in real time to be served within few hours, any errors is critical and should be addressed quickly. Rollbar plays an important role in allowing us to achieve this goal. ### 16. My experience has been minimal but great. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2015 **What do you like best about Rollbar?** The website ui is simple and easy to navigate around. **What do you dislike about Rollbar?** There isn't anything in particular that I dislike. **What problems is Rollbar solving and how is that benefiting you?** The benefits are being able to track specific users effected by specific errors. Since I am in QA, it's easier to track down which errors I personally saw and then be able to reproduce my steps and pinpoint issues. ### 17. Does the job of frontend bug tracking exceptionally well **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2015 **What do you like best about Rollbar?** Rollbar offers many views for different scenarios. A dashboard, pages per user, per error, different environments, etc. The flexibility is great. **What do you dislike about Rollbar?** Sometimes the UI can be overwhelming, but overall it is good. **What problems is Rollbar solving and how is that benefiting you?** This product allows us to quickly see the errors being generated on production client-side and gives us notifications and alerts when there are problems. ### 18. Awesome UI and greatly helped error tracking and reporting in our webapp! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael N. | Junior Developer, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2015 **What do you like best about Rollbar?** The best part about Rollbar is the very well balanced UI that allows you to see all errors tracked for various environments including testing, staging, and production. I love how easy it is to integrate with many different languages. Tracking client side javascript is super useful with full stack traces to show you exactly what went wrong. It's very easy to see trends in various bugs and mark bugs as solved easily. The plan options are all awesome deals and it's very easy to get up and running, Rollbar is awesome! **What do you dislike about Rollbar?** I can't find any downsides to rollbar at this time, but Im sure there are always features they can add in the future to make it even better. Integrations with newer languages are always good, I would be interested in an integration with Salesforce using the AppExchange which would be interesting if they could hook into it somehow..? **Recommendations to others considering Rollbar:** It is great, I highly suggest using it for any type of webapp or website in the future! It will help you greatly. **What problems is Rollbar solving and how is that benefiting you?** The main business problem we wanted to solve was to have a location to track all of our errors in one place for all environments. We used log files and they were much harder to scan through as opposed to rollbar's very nice and organized interface. The benefits of using Rollbar were enormous, allowing us to track client and server side errors in one place, target higher priority errors, see browser versions of users, and even be able to fix bugs before anyone even saw them. It allowed us to track errors client side that may not have messed up the page, but still were breaking. Rollbar is invaluable. ### 19. Very useful integration for a rails project **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Music | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2015 **What do you like best about Rollbar?** I really like to be able to go into the history of errors, checking them and discovering if they were already happened in the past. It replaced completely email-based error notifications **What do you dislike about Rollbar?** Sometimes I feel something is going wrong with errors count but in general my experience is more than positive **What problems is Rollbar solving and how is that benefiting you?** The biggest advantage is a unique place to check errors (with notifications), the real plus is to be able to know historic statistics about errors (to monitor regressions) ### 20. Great alerting **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2015 **What do you like best about Rollbar?** Great website that quickly aggregates the most important information **What do you dislike about Rollbar?** Sometimes overload of alerts, but I like the way they try to handle that. **What problems is Rollbar solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it to discover and delegate issues quickly,e specially for people on call. ### 21. Pay for failures! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2016 **What do you like best about Rollbar?** The policy – Fix your stuff if you do not want to pay! Good integrations Pretty fast Errors log is not a huge wall of text – it's smartly cutted **What do you dislike about Rollbar?** It's not very clear understanding what's the path that raised an exception **What problems is Rollbar solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tracking and solving bugs/exceptions ### 22. Rollbar as an error monitoring service **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2015 **What do you like best about Rollbar?** Custom grouping for errors Good dashboard **What do you dislike about Rollbar?** Error grouping is poor Titles for errors are misleading- often poor grouping **What problems is Rollbar solving and how is that benefiting you?** Monitoring error trends, spikes, etc ## Rollbar Discussions - [Why isn't there a iOS/Android app to get push notifications?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/24812-why-isn-t-there-a-ios-android-app-to-get-push-notifications) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [What is Rollbar used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-rollbar-used-for) - 1 comment - [What does Rollbar do?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-does-rollbar-do) - 1 comment - [Are rollbars free?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/are-rollbars-free) - 1 comment - [What is rollbar software?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-rollbar-software) - 1 comment - [View Rollbar pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/rollbar/reviews?page=4§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-30+14%3A17%3A52+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=a6d96746-2107-4150-9e0a-9b0d94b4fa78&secure%5Btoken%5D=15bedd4f663a5f389ced913888eae1a3604b11db129dbe9d74a93266351cabf7&format=llm_user) ## Rollbar Integrations - [PagerDuty](https://www.g2.com/products/pagerduty/reviews) ## Rollbar Features **Bug Reporting** - User Reports & Feedback - Tester Reports & Feedback - Team Reports & Comments **Crash Monitoring** - Constant Monitoring - Timely Alerts - User Reports and Feedback **Monitoring** - Performance Baselines - Performance Analysis - Performance Monitoring - AI/ML Assistance - Multi-System Monitoring **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation **Bug Monitoring** - Analytics - Bug History - Data Retention **Crash Data** - Report Generation - Crash Solutions - Analytics **Response** - Dashboards and Visualization - Incident Alerting - Root Cause Analysis (RCA) **Agentic AI - IT Alerting** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Metrics** - Engagement - Exit Tracking - Retention - Return - Conversions **Agentic AI - Bug Tracking** - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance **Agentic AI - Application Performance Monitoring (APM)** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Performance** - Real User Monitoring (RUM) - Second by Second Metrics **Functionality** - Synthetic Monitoring - Dynamic Transaction Mapping - Load Balancing - Cloud Observability ## Top Rollbar Alternatives - [Sentry](https://www.g2.com/products/sentry/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (197 reviews) - [Raygun](https://www.g2.com/products/raygun/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (122 reviews) - [Datadog](https://www.g2.com/products/datadog/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (694 reviews)