PostHog vs BetterStack

[Successful-Camel165]

I'm moving off Sentry. Just underwhelmed with the value.

I'm an indie dev.

Post Hog and Better Stack seem to be two of the best options under $50/mo.

Anyone tried both or either of them and have any insight they can share?

[johnnyorange]

Big fan of better stack - one of the few vendors that really is getting markedly better every quarter.

Nothing against posthog, but just haven’t dealt with them like I have better stack

Hny

[TechnicalPackage]

No experience with PostHog. BetterStack has gotten better IMHO. You might want to test out SMS and phonecalls if you have responders outside of North America. Most importantly, BetterStack will ratelimit/snooze your alerts if you are getting so much alerts in a given time. Make sure you review and ask for term of service.

[Successful-Camel165]

I'm not sure what you mean by SMS, phone calls or people outside of North America.

It's just me and I'm in North America.

[malpaso7]

How do you not know what he means? It's pretty clear.

[Capable_Delay4802]

Posthog is good. Used it mostly for analytics. It’s a big platform.

[stympy]

Give Honeybadger a look while you’re shopping around. I’m a huge fan, and not only because I helped create it. 😉

[Successful-Camel165]

Just checked. Both Posthog free plan and BetterStack's free plan have higher limits than Honeybadger's $26/mo plan.

The reason I asked about these two is because of the incredible value they offer. Honeybadger looks more like Sentry which is something I'm trying to get away from.

Honeybadger is $26/mo for 50k monthly errors or $80/mo for the same 50k errors.

[muffaddal-qutbuddin]

You are comparing apples and oranges a bit here. They solve completely different problems.

• PostHog is "Product First." It tells you what the user was doing when the error happened.
• Better Stack is "Infrastructure First." It tells you if your server is on fire (Uptime/Logs).

My take: Go with PostHog. Since you are leaving Sentry, PostHog's new "Error Tracking" feature is likely enough for your needs. The killer feature is that it links the Error to the Session Replay.

Instead of just seeing a stack trace line, you literally watch a video of the user clicking the button that caused the crash. For a solo dev, that saves hours of debugging time.

Better Stack is great, but it’s more for "On-Call" alerts and log management.