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Rollbar
Real-Time Error Tracking and Debugging
As of 30 August 2026, Rollbar is free to use. Rollbar is a real-time error monitoring and debugging platform. Softwr lists it under Logging. Rollbar is launched in 2012, available on Web, API.
Overview
What Rollbar does
Rollbar is a real-time error monitoring and debugging platform.
What people use it for
- Tracking application errors and exceptions across deployments
- Grouping and alerting on production error occurrences
The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Rollbar.
- The free plan allows 5,000 occurrences a month with 30 day retention
- Retention is a paid ladder rather than a setting, at up to 90 days on Essentials and up to 180 on Advanced
- Advanced alerting, the RQL analytics query language and SCIM provisioning are excluded from the free plan
- Enterprise requires a $4M annual plan minimum
- No price is published for Essentials or Advanced, so only the free tier has a visible cost
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Pricing
What Rollbar costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Free
Free
- 5K occurrences per month
- 1K replays
- Real-time alerts
- Error grouping
Essentials
On request
- 10K-50M occurrences
- 4K credits included
- 90-day retention
- Pricing not disclosed
Advanced
On request
- 8K credits
- Adaptive alerts
- RQL and Metrics API
- 180-day retention
- Pricing not disclosed
Enterprise
On request
- 80M+ events
- Direct Slack support
- Priority SLAs
- Custom retention
Capabilities
Features
Error tracking
Real-time alerts
Error grouping
Source maps
API
Integration with API
Webhooks
Integration with Webhooks
REST
Integration with REST
Web support
Available on web
Api support
Available on api
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
How much does Rollbar cost?
Free plan is $0 with 5K occurrences per month. Essentials, Advanced, and Enterprise plans do not have published pricing and require contact with sales.
SourceIs there a free trial?
Yes, a 14-day full access trial is available with 200K occurrences, 10K replays, and 15K credits.
SourceHow are overages handled?
Three overage protection options are available: stop processing at plan limits, enable on-demand billing at standard rates, or set a custom overage budget cap.
SourceBehind it
Who makes Rollbar
- Company
- Rollbar
- Based in
- United States
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- Elastic Stack
- New Relic
- Datadog Logs
- Coralogix
- Airbrake
- AppDynamics
- Axiom
- Honeybadger
- Humio
- Logz.io
- Papertrail
- Raygun
- Fluent Bit
- Graylog
- Elasticsearch Service
- Fluentd
- ELK Stack
- Filebeat
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Free, then $0.42/GB (logs ingestion)10 researched notes
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