Airbrake acquired by Exceptional

I'm happy to be a part of the new Airbrake + Exceptional team. I'll be heading up the product, UX and community events . We've already taken huge steps in improve the exception developer workflow and will be launching much needed search, notification workflow and integrations to Airbrake in the coming months. We are going to officially support more languages, and better support mobile exception tracking.<p>We are still working out our Exceptional + Airbrake roadmap; but if you have any questions or concerns please e-mail myself at ben@exceptional.io .<p>If you prefer Sans Serif, check out the exceptional blog. <a href="http://blog.exceptional.io/news/how-exceptional-and-airbrake-first-met/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.exceptional.io/news/how-exceptional-and-airbrake...</a><p>On a side note; it's been a pleasure working with the Thoughtbot + Contrast team.

lately they've just raised the airbrake prices to more than 600% WITHOUT ANY NOTICE! I see that exceptional cost 9 usd/month (per project or account? it's not clear) I'll see what they'll do, and eventually migrate to an open alternative. 5 usd/month for 4 projects is great, 35 usd/month it isn't (speaking for a bootstrapping startup where every cent can make the difference)

More on the acquisition from the thoughtbot blog: <a href="http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/17212734809/airbrake-acquired-by-exceptional" rel="nofollow">http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/17212734809/airbrake-acqui...</a>

Errbit (<a href="https://github.com/errbit/errbit" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/errbit/errbit</a>) is the open source alternative to Airbrake/Hoptoad that provides an identical API so you can continue to use the same gem in your projects, just point it at a different service.<p>The problem with being a customer on airbrake/exceptional is that you end up paying for crappy customers that send millions of exceptions to their servers putting them under heavy load, if you have a low traffic app then err bit on a free heroku account is a hassle free way of handling exceptions.

Not being aware of Airbrake prior, I assumed it was a service for transcoding media (i.e. Handbrake in the 'cloud'). Upon learning its actual purpose, it seems like the project is yet-another-candidate for cloning in an open source project so people can it run on their own.<p>As a hobbyist looking to learn more, I have been making a list of services that I could clone the functionality of, in an open source project, to achieve that end. This looks like a good opportunity.

I'm extremely sad to hear about this development. Jon Siegel has a seriously bad track record of running startups into the ground. I've used both Exceptional and Hoptoad (Airbrake) extensively, but I had to switch every app I run to Airbrake because Exceptional has been stagnant for nearly a year. They obviously don't care about the product and now they'll ruin Airbrake too. :(

Sounds like it might be time for me to roll a service like this. I used to use Exceptional, but their free plan went away, and I switched to just using exception_notifier to send emails straight to me instead. It's a useful service, but the price point just doesn't work for hobby/small projects.

Is anyone else getting confused too? who did acquired who?<p>On <a href="http://contrast.ie/" rel="nofollow">http://contrast.ie/</a> is stated Exceptional is acquired by Airbrake.io (Hoptoad). And here is state the opposite... will Exceptional continue to exist or Airbrake? Or Both?

I'm interested to see where this goes next. I feel like Airbrake hasn't gotten much love lately, and there are multiple times during the day where the response times are abysmal.<p>Here's hoping the new stewardship brings some better architecture/hardware and some new features.

Whoa! The cheapest Airbrake account costs $79! Are there alternatives to Airbrak &#38; Exceptional?

How will the acquisition affect the release of the much-needed javascript exception tracking upgrades?

Small stylistic comment: the busy background on quotes makes the text very difficult to read!

Is there a reason to use any of these services given how trivial it is to set up an open source alternative? You can push errbit to heroku in 5 minutes and you're done.<p>Perhaps there is a level of service here and a business I don't see, and I'm a huge heroku and third party service user, but I don't see the need for a monthly service fee to aggregate and send exception notifications. It's either a self deploy or a feature of an overall monitoring service like NewRelic.