Buy vs. Build Error Monitoring
Safeguard your applications
While homegrown tools might sound like a good idea at first, there are many reasons why a
professional error reporting system is a much stronger bet, especially if you want to safeguard your
applications and keep developers and customers happy. And who doesn’t want that?
Stay focused on core competencies
Developers want to focus on building new features and functionality for your product offering,
not homegrown error reporting tools.
BugSnag error reports provide rich diagnostic
data to help engineers investigate and fix bugs faster.
Improve developer productivity : save time and money
As companies scale, error monitoring needs grow larger and more complex. Time and money are
better spent investing in a professional error reporting service from the get-go.
Learn
about BugSnag’s Search and Segmentation which
allows engineers to filter errors by any criterion or search term.
“There is a lot less search involved with BugSnag, and the overall
process of troubleshooting bugs is significantly more pleasant.”
Blake Mesdag, Senior Developer, CI Infrastructure Team, Shopify
Keep your employees happy
Engineering leaders realize that an error reporting service is worth the price to keep their
engineers happy and focused on fulfilling development work.
Learn about the Alerting
and Workflow Engine which helps engineering organizations focus their BugSnag alerts to
drive code ownership and streamline debugging workflows.
“Engineers won’t ever want to give BugSnag up once they use it. I
would definitely recommend it.”
Daniel Gebler, CTO, Picnic
Benefit from innovation and expertise
BugSnag is built and maintained by an engineering organization that is wholly focused on
continuously innovating state-of-the-art error monitoring.
For example, application stability is a concept championed by BugSnag, and it
measures successful user interactions per release. Stability scores tell the real story about
the impact of errors on end users. The idea of application stability as a reflection of software
health is a result of having a singular focus on improving error monitoring.
“The stability score is extremely important at HotelTonight because it is a reliable, at-a-glance metric that immediately tells us the health of the application.”
Doug Suriano, iOS Manager, Hotel Tonight
Full stack support with two-way sync integrations
BugSnag supports full stack monitoring, all the way from the backend infrastructure to the
end user. With a DIY tool, you can only monitor platforms that the homegrown tool
supports.
Never worry about internal infrastructure changes or multiple
languages and frameworks. BugSnag supports over 50 platforms and also offers over 40
integrations. Enjoy built-in integrations with Jira, Slack, along with BI and data
management tools.
Share in the benefits
Mid-size and large companies tend to have similar requirements and use cases for error
monitoring. Present-day features and enhancements have been designed and built for companies
that share goals similar to yours.
Third-party error reporting services have the
experience to meet the needs of many different
industries. Everyone benefits from improvements based on the feedback of other
customers.
