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bughq vs Raygun

Raygun bundles crash reporting with application performance monitoring and real-user monitoring in one closed-source SaaS. If you want the whole performance suite in a single vendor, Raygun is broad. If you want focused error tracking you can host yourself on Postgres, bughq is leaner and open.

bughq and Raygun, side by side

Capability
bughq
Raygun
What it is
Focused error and crash tracking
Crash reporting and APM
Open source
Yes, open source
No
Self-host / data ownership
Yes, your own Postgres
No, SaaS only
Pricing model
Free self-hosted, usage-based hosted
Event-volume based
Error grouping
Automatic fingerprinting
Yes
Source maps and stack traces
Full source-mapped traces
Yes
Releases and environments
Built in
Yes
Alerting
New and spiking issues
Yes
Data retention
Yours to set when self-hosted
Plan-based

Where Raygun still leads: real-user monitoring and performance tracing sit alongside crash reporting, so front-to-back performance lives in one place.

Why teams pick bughq

01

Own your data

Raygun is hosted only. bughq keeps crash and error data on your own Postgres, under your retention rules.

02

Just error tracking

If you are not buying the APM and RUM sides, that breadth is cost and surface area you do not use. bughq stays focused on errors.

03

Open source

bughq is open and self-hostable, so there is no vendor lock on where your error data lives or how it is processed.

Credit where it is due

Raygun’s strength is correlating crashes with performance and real-user data. bughq deliberately does not chase that; it is an error tracker, not an observability platform.

What bughq is

Open-source error and crash tracking you can run on your own Postgres, or use on a hosted tier. Automatic capture, fingerprint grouping, source-mapped traces, releases, and alerts, without the rest of an observability suite.

Own your error tracking.