bughq vs Sentry
Sentry is the incumbent and the most feature-complete option here, spanning error tracking, tracing, session replay, and profiling. That breadth is real. It also comes with event-quota pricing that climbs quickly at scale and a self-hosted stack of many moving parts. bughq does one thing, error and crash tracking, and self-hosts as a single app on your own Postgres.
bughq and Sentry, side by side
Where Sentry still leads: distributed tracing, session replay, and profiling in one product. If you need a full performance suite, not just errors, Sentry covers more ground.
Why teams pick bughq
Own your data
Self-hosting bughq is one app plus Postgres, not Kafka, ClickHouse, and a fleet of workers. Sensitive stack data stays on your infrastructure without an ops project to keep it there.
Predictable cost
A noisy release can burn through a Sentry event quota in an afternoon. bughq keeps error tracking affordable, and free entirely when you run it yourself.
Just error tracking
If you do not need tracing and replay, the incumbent is a lot of surface area to carry. bughq stays focused on capture, grouping, source maps, and triage.
Credit where it is due
Sentry pioneered much of how modern error tracking works, and its SDK coverage is enormous. bughq is the leaner, self-contained take on the same core loop, not a clone of the whole 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.