A better GlitchTip alternative
GlitchTip is great, but Telebugs is a better, faster, and more lightweight alternative with everything you need to track errors across your projects.
It’s simpler, more intuitive, and designed for developers who value speed and ease. Whether you’re a solo coder or managing a team, Telebugs delivers self-hosted error tracking without the hassle or overhead of GlitchTip.
Up and running in 5 minutes
GlitchTip makes you jump through hoops just to get started — multiple services, a jungle of configs, and a dozen steps to follow. Not exactly beginner-friendly.
Telebugs? One command. Five minutes. That’s all it takes. No complex setup. No guesswork. Just run the command and you’re live — whether it’s a VPS, home server, Raspberry Pi, or your laptop.
It’s made for everyone: indie hackers, small teams, and enterprise devs alike.
Telebugs installation process.
Free support, always
GlitchTip charges a wild $15 per user per month for support. Want help installing it? That’ll be $500 — just for one instance. Seriously?
That’s more than the price of Telebugs itself! 😡
With Telebugs, support is simple: you likely won’t need it. But if you do, we’re here — for free.
One command, one cup of tea, and you’re up.
2025 vs 2020?
Did you know that GlitchTip hasn’t updated their dashboard in 5 years? It shows — and frankly, it feels like they’ve stopped caring.
Telebugs, on the other hand, is built for 2025. We’re constantly refining the UI/UX to stay modern, clean, and intuitive — without sacrificing simplicity. Your devs get a faster, smoother experience that makes fixing errors feel effortless.
Because a tool that looks like it’s from 2025 should also work like it.
Telebugs dashboard.
True simplicity
GlitchTip claims to be simple. But does a truly simple web app really load 4MB of resources, fire off 104 requests, and take ~1.4 seconds to load a dashboard with one project? Maybe that’s “simple” compared to Sentry — but that’s not the simplicity we mean.
Telebugs delivers actual simplicity. It loads under 1MB, makes fewer than 60 requests, and the dashboard is ready in under 1 second.
No bloated JavaScript frameworks here. Telebugs uses only light sprinkles of JS — thanks to Hotwire, we get more done with less. The way it should be.
A benchmark of a fully loaded Telebugs dashboard.
Built with Rails
GlitchTip is built with Django — not bad, but it doesn’t match the elegance and clarity of Ruby on Rails.
Telebugs is pure Rails. Clean code. Follows convention. No weird magic, no extra layers, and minimum dependencies. You get the full source code, ready to customize, extend, and maintain — without headaches.
Ruby on Rails logo.
Rails has powered thousands of successful companies for over two decades. It’s stable, battle-tested, and backed by a massive community.
Telebugs follows a simple philosophy: Less bloat. More signal. Built to last.
Built with love, not outsourced
GlitchTip was built by a software agency. Nothing wrong with that — but let’s be honest, it’s just one of many projects for them.
Telebugs is different. It’s built and maintained by a solo founder who spent years working on Sentry competitors like Bugsnag and Airbrake. This isn’t a side hustle — it’s the main gig.
No gimmicks. No upsells. Just a rock-solid product made by someone who actually cares about error tracking.
But why do you need a GlitchTip alternative?
We don’t hate GlitchTip, but all the Telebugs features we mentioned, are definitely something to consider. Overall Telebugs comes as a better alternative because of our price to value ratio and because of a better user experience than GlitchTip.
It’s actually a refreshing experience to use Telebugs. Simple as that.
Telebugs is made by Kyrylo Silin, the maker of We Use Rails, Flag Match, and Coffee World Rush. © 2025 Kyrylo Silin PE. All rights reserved. Anyone buying, using, or receiving Telebugs is subject to the software license agreement.
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