How Telebugs compares to Bugsink

The installer guides you

Start with a prepared Linux server, SSH access, and a domain pointing to it, with ports 80 and 443 open. Paste your private installation command. The installer asks which domain to use, installs Docker if needed, configures HTTPS, and starts Telebugs with SQLite. You don’t have to choose a separate database server or write a reverse proxy configuration for the standard installation.

It shows you the progress as it prepares, downloads, and starts the app. When it’s ready, it prints the HTTPS address to open. Create your first user there and you’re in. The same command takes you from the domain prompt to that ready message, without a separate configuration guide to work through. You can see the installer in action before buying.

Bugsink supports SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Its Docker guide recommends an external database for persistent production use and a reverse proxy for HTTPS. SQLite is also an option outside Docker. The guide explains the configuration, but you supply the database connection and set up the HTTPS proxy. That flexibility can suit an existing deployment.

Telebugs gives you a standard setup and carries it out for you. That’s the main reason to pay for it here: fewer setup decisions to research, fewer pieces to connect, and an installer that tells you when the app is ready to use.

Updates, backups, and everyday use

New Telebugs installations check for updates every night. The updater installs the release, restarts the app, and checks that it’s ready again. You can change the schedule or turn it off. For Bugsink’s Docker upgrades, the documented steps are to pull the new image and restart the container.

Backup and restore have their own commands, too. A backup collects your data, configuration, recovery secrets, and exact app version into a verified archive. The app pauses briefly while it captures that consistent copy. Store the archive securely off the server so you can restore it elsewhere.

Bugsink can fit into your own deployment and maintenance tooling. Telebugs supplies those everyday tools with the product. With either choice, you still own the server’s security, updates, backups, and disk space. Capacity and retention set the practical limit.

Both products collect errors, group repeated reports, and let you search them. In Telebugs, you can also step through reports with the keyboard and resolve, mute, or claim an error without reaching for the mouse. The command palette shows the actions for the page you’re on, so you don’t have to memorize every shortcut.

Support from the person building it

Bugsink is free to self-host under its PolyForm Shield license. The code is public, but the license restricts competing uses, so it’s source-available rather than open source in the usual OSI sense. Its paid Premium Support is priced per user and includes onboarding help.

Self-hosted Telebugs is paid, source-available software. You buy a perpetual license for one production instance, with the first year of updates and email support included. Renewing updates and support after that is optional.

That email goes directly to Kyrylo, Telebugs’ founder and developer. You can ask about installation, configuration, using the app, or upgrading it. The person answering works on the code you’re running. Support is on business days.

Both also offer hosting if you decide not to run the tracker yourself. Managed Telebugs is the same error tracker on a private instance we maintain, including updates and backups, for a monthly subscription. That’s a separate choice from comparing the self-hosted installations.

Neither Telebugs option charges by error, project, or teammate. Capacity and retention still set the practical limit. Our pricing page has the current terms.

Try the whole workflow

If you’re happy administering Bugsink and like the way it works, its free edition is a good choice. Choose Telebugs if you want the installation to guide you all the way to a working app, with upkeep tools and direct support there for what comes next.

Both accept reports from Sentry SDKs. Check your language and framework before changing the destination; compatibility is about supported error reports, not every Sentry feature. Old issues, notes, and notification settings don’t automatically move between trackers.

Start with the installation, then connect one application. Send a real error, find it in the list, and work through its reports. Try a backup, too. Judge the whole path from setting up the tracker to using it and looking after it.

Sources: Bugsink’s Docker installation, upgrade guide, Premium Support, and license.