Comments on: Exceptional Software finds success in errors http://gigaom.com/2012/09/21/exceptional-software-finds-success-in-errors/ Mon, 20 May 2013 05:10:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ben Arent http://gigaom.com/2012/09/21/exceptional-software-finds-success-in-errors/#comment-1011003 Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:08:27 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=565389#comment-1011003 For those interested in more numbers and users distribution we’ve put together this blog post and info-graphic. http://blog.exceptional.io/site-news/exceptional-infographic/

Fun fact, Over 48% of our users are outside the US.

]]> By: Daniel Higginbotham http://gigaom.com/2012/09/21/exceptional-software-finds-success-in-errors/#comment-1010737 Fri, 21 Sep 2012 16:30:57 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=565389#comment-1010737 I’ve created a free, open-source alternative to Exceptional/Airbrake, Whoops: http://www.whoopsapp.com/ . Its main differences are that you can log anything, not just exceptions, and that it’s self-hosted.

I’ve used Airbrake (well, it was Hoptoad then) and it’s a great product. You might want to use Whoops instead if:

* You don’t mind spending a minute setting up your own server on Heroku
* You want log events using an arbitrary structure (it uses mongodb to store the logs)
* You want to search your events
* You’re behind a firewall
* You want to do logging for multiple apps and don’t want to have to use a different login for each one

The github repo for Whoops is here: https://github.com/flyingmachine/whoops

Hope this helps developers :)

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