As a rule, my dev environments are decoupled and have no non-local dependencies, 'cause I don't always work with an internet connection. So while I've liked Sentry at prior jobs and have consistently recommended it, I have not been using it personally on my own stuff. But recently, a number of projects I'm now working on require more elaboration on errors I've used I was just saying the other day "huh, I forgot about self-hosted Sentry, I can use that for development and I can pay them in production". But I guess I should track down another alternative that isn't going to add gigs and gigs of memory to a <i>dev stack</i>; I like Kafka and Zookeeper and all that as much as the next nerd but if my product doesn't need it I'm certainly not running it for an exception catcher.<p>The marketing spiel in this is pretty shitty, too. "You can evaluate whether you want us to handle this with the cloud!" I think I'd rather evaluate whether or not I want to use you.<p>As I said, my automatic recommendation has always been Sentry; I now need to reevaluate this. Any locally-hostable-for-dev,-SaaS-for-prod options I should be looking at?
It must be hard to maintain their open source product. I can imagine it’s difficult to have 2 different backends that scale from self hosted to the thousands and thousands per second of the cloud. Along with the searching, HA, etc
Kind of off-topic, but with the direction GitHub is going with features and 'embrace, extend, (and to be determined with pkg repo) extinguish', I wouldn't be surprised if GH comes out with a Sentry competitor by 2021.