How Telebugs compares to Airbrake

Start with the error report

Airbrake collects errors, groups related reports, and shows backtraces and breadcrumbs to help you work out what happened. It can notify your team when something needs attention. Those are useful things to have, and they’re central to Telebugs too.

In Telebugs, we want it to be easy to find the report you need and know what to do next. Search by a few words from an error, narrow the results, and read the backtrace and context together. Move through reports and resolve, mute, or claim an error with the keyboard. That’s where our care for design becomes part of the working day.

Airbrake also offers performance monitoring, sold separately from error monitoring. You don’t have to buy both. If you use its performance data to investigate slow requests, you’ll still need a tool for that alongside Telebugs.

Check where the tracker will run

Airbrake’s public pricing and security documentation describe a hosted service on AWS. We couldn’t verify a current on-premise edition in those materials. If Airbrake offers you a private deployment, confirm where it runs, who operates it, and what installation and maintenance involve.

Self-hosted Telebugs runs in one Docker container with SQLite. On a prepared Linux server, its installer sets up Docker and HTTPS. It’s commercial, source-available software, and you control the installation and its data.

New installations check for updates every night, install new releases, and check that the app is ready again. You can change that schedule or turn it off. Updates briefly restart the app; backups, security, storage, and the server itself are still yours to look after.

If you’d rather leave that work to us, Managed Telebugs is the same error tracker on a private instance we maintain, including updates and backups. It is managed hosting, not an installation you operate yourself.

Price the deployment you need

Airbrake’s published subscriptions price its hosted service, not an on-premise installation. For any private deployment offer, ask for the actual license, usage limits, support, and renewal terms. A cloud bill can’t tell you what running the software yourself would cost.

Telebugs doesn’t charge by error, project, or teammate. Self-hosting comes with a perpetual license and a year of updates and email support. Renewal after that is optional; the version you downloaded keeps working. Managed Telebugs is a monthly subscription. Both options are on our pricing page.

Support comes directly from Kyrylo, Telebugs’ founder and developer, on business days. Questions about installation, configuration, everyday use, and upgrades reach the person building the product.

That doesn’t make server resources unlimited. More reports need processing time and storage, and instance capacity and retention settings still matter. If you self-host, hosting and upkeep are your costs too. The difference is that each extra error doesn’t carry a software charge.

Try it with one application

Airbrake’s notifiers aren’t drop-in clients for Telebugs. Switching means installing a supported Sentry SDK and moving your custom reporting calls, filters, and context over to it. Start with your language or framework, then check that real errors arrive with the details you need.

Existing issue history and alert settings don’t move automatically. Check notifications before turning off Airbrake, and keep access to any old reports you still need.

Connect one application to Telebugs and work through a real error. Find the report, read the context, and try the keyboard actions. You get the installation and upkeep tools with the app, and can ask its founder when you need help putting them to use.

Sources: Airbrake’s error monitoring overview, public plans, hosting and security documentation, and notifier documentation.