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- Product updates: release notes and product changes across Telebugs versions.
- Migration and compatibility: Sentry-compatible workflows, provider switching, source maps, and alternatives.
- Small-server operations: SQLite, VPS capacity, low-resource deployments, and error-storm guardrails.
- AI and MCP: MCP access, API work, and connected tooling for debugging workflows.
- Practical engineering: implementation notes, production lessons, and small technical walkthroughs.
Telebugs 1.19.0: Compare Trends and Triage by Keyboard
Previous-period trend comparisons, keyboard navigation, a contextual command palette, chart tables, CSV export, and responsive filters.
Telebugs Thrives on SQLite
Why Telebugs leans into SQLite: one app, one server, database-backed jobs and cache, simple backups, and fewer moving parts.
Telebugs 1.18.0: Guardrails for Error Storms
Ingest Protection, Maintenance Activity, and a repeatable load test for keeping a small Telebugs instance boring during error storms.
How Many Errors Can Telebugs Process on a Small VPS?
I benchmarked Telebugs on a Hetzner CX23 and learned why the honest number is processed reports per second, not just accepted requests.
Telebugs 1.17.0: Introducing MCP Support
Connect AI coding tools to Telebugs with MCP, inspect real production errors, and take scoped actions without leaving your editor.
Telebugs 1.16.0: Introducing the REST API
A production-ready REST API is here. Also includes a major UI consistency refresh across the board.
Never Put Large Payloads Inside Background Jobs
Last week, a customer nearly left Telebugs because of a mistake I made at the design level.
Telebugs 1.15.0: Resolving and Unresolving Errors in Bulk
Clean up a wall of related errors in one pass: select them across a project list or All Errors, resolve or reopen them together, and get back to the actual fix.
Telebugs 1.14.0: Extended Filtering, Sensitive Data Scrubbing, Sparklines, and More
A practical release for longer investigations: wider time filters, server-side secret scrubbing, per-error sparklines, louder alert rules, and clearer timestamps.
Telebugs 1.13.0: Teams Notifications, Preferred Local Editor, and Direct Repository Links
Alerts now land in Microsoft Teams, backtraces can open straight in your editor or repo host, and error lists focus on unresolved work by default.
Telebugs 1.12.0: Dark Mode and UI Polish
Dark Mode finally arrives, alongside cleaner form controls, less twitchy popovers, faster paginated lists, and a tiny favicon that stops slowing down Firefox.
Telebugs 1.11.0: New Error Tables, Date Ranges, Monospace Font, and More
Better defaults for coming back to a project: remembered date ranges, a broader 28-day view, tighter tables, a monospace option, and more visible mobile toasts.
How to Log Application Errors Using a Telegram Bot
A lightweight Rails walkthrough for sending exceptions to a Telegram chat: create the bot, wire the token and chat ID, and keep normal exception handling intact.
Telebugs 1.10.0: Error Muting, Mobile Sheets, and More
Mute third-party noise for an hour, a day, or indefinitely; then manage it comfortably on mobile with bottom sheets and glanceable status details.
Modern Toasts Using the Native Popover API
A practical Popover API walkthrough with CSS, HTML, and a small controller for native toast notifications, plus a live demo you can try.
Telebugs 1.9.0: Delightful Animations and Refined Design Details
The product polish release: tactile buttons, animated modals and popovers, view transitions, recessed inputs, and counters that are easier to scan.
Telebugs 1.8.0: New dashboards, wide view, error ownership, and more
A single place to scan every project: global summaries, All Errors and All Reports dashboards, ownership, wide view, Markdown export, and richer email context.
Introducing Lapsoss: Vendor-neutral error tracking for Ruby applications
Eliminate decision fatigue in small projects or enterprises by routing errors to any provider like Telebugs or Sentry, with zero boilerplate and Rails 7+ integration.
Telebugs 1.7.0: Improved performance on low-end hardware
Benchmarks and maintenance UX for small machines: lower memory use, faster project pages, and service messages that let admins run database optimization from the UI.
Telebugs 1.6.0: Introducing Apps
For teams with more than a handful of projects: group them into Apps, pin the important ones, filter quickly, and keep sourcemap artifact browsing fast.
Telebugs 1.5.0: Introducing sourcemap support
A hands-on guide to unminifying JavaScript and TypeScript crashes with releases, manual uploads, and existing Sentry CLI sourcemap workflows.
Telebugs 1.4.0: Introducing error notes
Keep debugging context next to the error itself: notes, links, screenshots, attachments, thumbnails, and automatic activity entries when issues change state.
Telebugs 1.3.0: Improved error grouping
Take control of noisy grouping with custom fingerprints, manual merges, and grouping details that explain why reports landed together.
Telebugs 1.2.0: Timezone fixes, ARM64 support, and auto-refresh on first error
This update brings accurate timezone handling, ARM64 Docker support, auto-refresh on first error, and critical bug fixes for smoother error tracking.
Telebugs 1.1.0: Introducing webhooks
You can now report error notifications to Slack and Discord using webhooks.
Telebugs became #3 Developer Tools product of the week on Product Hunt
Thanks to the supportive community!
I launched Telebugs on Product Hunt and hit #2!
Discover how Telebugs, a self-hosted Sentry alternative, went from launch to #2 Product of the Day on Product Hunt. Learn about my journey and why self-hosting matters.
Hello, world! Telebugs blog is now live
Welcome to the initial commit, or as I affectionately call it, the birthplace of bugs.