SmokePing VS Rollbar

SmokePing Reviews

1. Stan

   | Founder at SaaSHub | almost 2 years ago
   Such a helpful tool

   Smokeping used to be one of my favourity tools when I was working as a SysAdmin long time ago. It's offers such a clever way of presenting the data, that it is super easy to identify any issues.

   I still wonder why modern tools haven't adopted this ingenious technique.

   👍 Pros:    Usability

   👎 Cons:    Not actively maintained

Rollbar Reviews

SmokePing mentions (27)

• Anyone else using unifi to track the isp outages?

  I'd recommend setting up SmokePing or Vaping to get a better idea of latency and connectivity. Source: 11 months ago

• N-Central, Connectivity Service and 15 minute minimums, oh my!

  Let me introduce you to a rather old, but still highly useful, tool for free. Takes a little leg work to get going, but pays off in style. https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/. Source: 12 months ago

• Is there any way to fix packet loss!?

  So I would run Smoke Ping (https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/) for a while to get an idea of the loss. If it really is an external issue, you can try a VPN to hopefully pickup a different route. Source: 12 months ago

• lightweight monitoring tool

  I personally like smokeping, https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/ . Has lots of different probes so you can do more than just "ping if it is alive". Source: about 1 year ago

• Cox Monitoring -- something changed around 9:30 last night

  I previously made a post asking for some ping results for various people in the area. Thank you to everyone who replied. Some of the comments encouraged me to set up a more proper monitoring system for keeping track of latencies to various servers, and to consider more than just ICMP ping as said packets are likely deprioritized. I set up an instance of SmokePing and have it monitoring a number of services, as... Source: about 1 year ago

Rollbar mentions (19)

• Cleaning routines to keep your project without bugs

  **2. Rollbar **is an error-tracking system that tells you if there are any errors occurring and if the app is functioning a-okay. - Source: dev.to / 7 days ago

• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)

  Rollbar | https://rollbar.com | Remote US, Remote Europe, Budapest | Engineering, Technical Solutions About Rollbar: * We're a ~30-person team (SF, Budapest, remote US and Europe) with a mission to help developers build software quickly and painlessly * We help tens of thousands of developers find and fix errors faster. * Our backend handles billions of errors with low latency and high reliability * Our front-end... - Source: Hacker News / 19 days ago

• Yet Another Tour of an Open-Source Elm SPA

  When any unexpected errors occur we need to send the details over to an error logging service, for e.g. Like Rollbar. - Source: dev.to / 28 days ago

• 10 best Javascript debugging tools

  Rollbar is a real-time error tracking and monitoring tool that empowers development teams to deliver top-notch software. Its primary mission is to identify, report, and aggregate errors, exceptions, and issues in your applications as they happen, allowing developers to address them promptly. Rollbar assists developers in maintaining the best quality of software throughout the development process by offering... - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• Handle JavaScript errors via Typeform

  Usually you would use a tool like Sentry or Rollbar to catch and report errors. Those tools improve developer experience, however we should also think about user experience — and there is a way to make it more pleasant. What if when your users experience an error, we display a typeform to collect additional feedback from the user? - Source: dev.to / 11 months ago