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RealUptime Errors vs GlitchTip
GlitchTip is an open-source, Sentry-API-compatible error tracker you can self-host for free or use hosted at a low per-event price. It is honest, simple software and this page treats it that way. RealUptime Errors is hosted-only, flat-priced, and part of a family that also covers uptime monitoring and status pages, with sensitive-data scrubbing on by default in our own SDKs.
Open-source, self-hostable code
Don’t have
hosted only today
Have
MIT-licensed; run it yourself for free with Docker
Sentry SDK compatibility
Don’t have
our own SDKs for JavaScript, Go, PHP, Python, and Ruby; not a Sentry drop-in
Have
accepts events from existing Sentry SDKs; switching is a DSN change
Free tier (hosted)
Have
10,000 events a month, 14-day retention
Have
a free hosted tier with a monthly event allowance
Data scrubbing on by default
Have
SDKs drop authorization headers, cookies, and card- and token-shaped strings before events leave your process; the server applies the same rules again
Partial
inherits whatever scrubbing the Sentry SDK you point at it is configured to do
Uptime monitoring and status pages in the same account
Have
RealUptime Monitor and RealUptime Status share the account; errors, checks, and the public page live together
Partial
GlitchTip ships basic uptime monitoring; there is no public status page product
Is there a free tier?
RealUptime is free to start and never asks for a card. One signup turns on the free rung of every product: 10 monitors with a public status page, 5 server-agent slots, and 10,000 error events a month kept for 14 days. RealUptime Outages is free to read with no account at all.
GlitchTip: a free hosted tier with a monthly event allowance.
Is it open source or self-hosted?
RealUptime's core is a hosted service and its source is not published, so there is no self-hosted edition of the platform itself. The parts that run on your side are open source at github.com/RealUptimeHQ: the CLI and the RealUptime Errors SDKs for JavaScript, Python, Go, PHP and Ruby are MIT-licensed, and the Grafana data source is Apache 2.0.
GlitchTip: MIT-licensed; you can run it yourself for free with Docker.
If self-hosting is a hard requirement, these are the options in this category: GlitchTip is MIT-licensed, Sentry publishes and documents a self-hosted edition, and Bugsink is source-available under PolyForm Shield, which is not an OSI open-source license.
Looking for a GlitchTip alternative?
For the reasoning behind checking from more than one region at all, see why a status page can show all green during a real outage. Comparing more than just this one alternative? The status page tool checklist covers what to test before committing to any of them.