VantaTrace as a Bugsnag alternative
Bugsnag built its product around release stability scores and a disciplined triage workflow; VantaTrace focuses on the ingestion and query layer, with ClickHouse-backed storage and no event tier to exceed.
Where Bugsnag is the better choice
Stated first, because it is the part a comparison page usually omits and the part worth knowing before you spend a migration on anything.
- Stability scores and release-health gating are a genuinely well-designed workflow for shipping decisions.
- Broad client-side SDK coverage across mobile and browser platforms.
- Established triage, ownership and assignment features for larger engineering organisations.
Where VantaTrace differs
- No event tier: ingestion is unmetered, so a bad deploy that generates a spike of exceptions does not consume a monthly allowance.
- ClickHouse columnar storage for analytical queries over large exception volumes.
- Server-side PII redaction in the ingestion worker, independent of SDK version.
- Request-level context — body, query, headers, route, user — is captured and redacted by default.
Moving from Bugsnag
Swap the notifier for @vantatrace/sdk and replace notify() calls with captureException(). Fingerprinting differs, so expect grouping boundaries to shift slightly; comparing a week of overlap on real traffic is the reliable way to check it before cutting over.
npm install @vantatrace/sdk
import { VantaTrace } from '@vantatrace/sdk';
const vantaTrace = new VantaTrace({
apiKey: process.env.VANTATRACE_API_KEY,
});
app.use(vantaTrace.requestHandler());
// ... your routes ...
app.use(vantaTrace.errorHandler());