Category · 2 options
Choosing monitoring
Error tracking, uptime checks, and logs. Error tracking with source maps first, uptime checks second. Check whether the free plan allows more than one user.
Free plans and prices
In Cuely's default order for the general case. Your needs change the order; see below.
| Tool | Free plan | Paid from | At 1,000 users |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sentry The standard for error tracking, with a free plan for one developer. | Developer (free): 1 user, 5k errors, 5M spans, 50 session replays, 5 GB logs per month. | Team: $29/month billed monthly ($26 annually), unlimited users, 50k errors. | $0/month |
| Better Stack Uptime checks and a status page, with logs in the same place. | Free: 10 monitors and heartbeats, 1 status page, 3 GB logs per month kept 3 days. | Responder seat: $29/month billed yearly ($34 monthly); telemetry bundles from $25/month. | $0/month |
Best pick by need
From the published scores Cuely ranks with. Only needs where one tool clearly leads.
- background jobs or long-running servers: Better Stack. Heartbeats catch silent failures in jobs and workers.
- Next.js or React: Sentry. Official Next.js SDK with source map upload.
- prefers open source or self-hosting: Sentry. Self-hostable under the Functional Source License (Apache 2.0 after two years).
- regulated or compliance-sensitive: Sentry. Data scrubbing controls and a self-hosted option.