Raygun

Raygun is an application monitoring platform that provides real-time error tracking, crash reporting, and performance monitoring for web and mobile applications. It helps development teams identify, prioritize, and resolve software errors by automatically capturing exceptions, grouping related issues, and surfacing the diagnostic details needed to fix problems efficiently. Raygun's error tracking system captures unhandled exceptions and errors across all major platforms and languages, including JavaScript, .NET, Ruby, Python, Java, Go, PHP, iOS, and Android. When errors occur, Raygun collects stack traces, request data, environment information, and user context, presenting this information in a structured dashboard. The AI-powered error grouping system intelligently clusters related error instances together, even when stack traces differ slightly, reducing the noise that development teams face when triaging issues. Each error group shows affected user counts, frequency trends, and first/last occurrence times, enabling teams to prioritize based on actual user impact rather than raw error volume. Deployment tracking correlates new error appearances with specific releases, making it straightforward to identify which deployment introduced a problem. Real user monitoring (RUM) tracks page load times, network requests, and core web vitals from actual user sessions, providing performance data that complements the error tracking. Raygun is best suited for development teams and engineering organizations that need actionable error monitoring without the complexity of full-stack observability platforms like Datadog or New Relic. It works well for teams building web applications, mobile apps, and APIs that want to focus specifically on application-level errors and performance rather than infrastructure monitoring. Small to mid-size development teams often find Raygun's focused feature set and clean interface more approachable than broader monitoring platforms. Raygun does not offer a free tier. Crash Reporting plans start at $14 per month for small applications, with pricing scaling based on the number of error events processed. Real User Monitoring is available as a separate product or bundled with crash reporting. The APM (Application Performance Monitoring) product provides server-side performance tracing at additional cost. Teams evaluating Raygun should compare it against Sentry, which offers a free tier and a larger open-source community, though Raygun's user impact scoring and deployment tracking features provide differentiated value for teams willing to invest in a paid monitoring solution.