Monitoring & Errors
Error tracking, uptime checks, and logs are three different jobs that vendors increasingly sell as one. Worth knowing which of the three you actually have covered, because a green uptime dashboard says nothing about the exception your users are hitting.
6tools
- AxiomLog and event storage priced so you can afford to keep everythingaxiom.co
- Better StackUptime checks, logs and on-call paging in one productbetterstack.com
- ChecklyMonitors written as Playwright scripts, run from where your users arechecklyhq.com
- CluelineBuilt hereThe error tool that talks to your users, not just your dashboardclueline.dev
- GrafanaThe dashboard layer over Prometheus, Loki and everything elsegrafana.com
- SentryError tracking with the stack trace, the release, and the commit that caused itsentry.io
Head to head
Monitoring & Errors, compared
Check the first column against what you are actually missing — these overlap less than the marketing suggests.
| Tool | Covers | Self-host | Alerting | Notable for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Axiom | Logs, events | No | Monitors | Keeping everything, not sampling |
| Better Stack | Uptime, logs, on-call | No | Paging | Three jobs, one bill |
| Checkly | Uptime, browser flows | No | Paging | Playwright scripts as monitors |
| Clueline | Errors | No | Yes | Messages your users can read |
| Grafana | Metrics, logs, traces | Yes | Yes | The dashboard standard |
| Sentry | Errors, tracing | Yes | Yes | Stack trace to the commit |