Introduction

Bugtail collects the errors, logs, traces and metrics of your applications and shows them in one place. It works with the tools you already have: the official Sentry SDKs, OpenTelemetry, or a plain HTTP request. Everything is hosted in the EU.

Already using Sentry? Point your SDK at a Bugtail DSN. Nothing else in your code has to change.

How it is organised

Organisation. Your company, identified by its domain. It has its own dashboard at https://<organisation>.bugtail.eu, its own team and its own storage. Everyone you invite works in the same organisation.

Project. One application or service, such as your web shop or your API. Issues get a short reference from their project, such as SHOP-14, and every screen can be filtered by project.

Collector. The way data reaches a project. Each collector has its own key, speaks one protocol (Sentry, OpenTelemetry or Bugtail's own HTTP format) and has its own settings for sampling, retention and filtering. A project can have several, for example one for the backend and one for the browser.

You manage all three under Settings > Projects and collectors. See Collectors and keys for what each setting does.

What it collects

Data	What you see	How it is sent
Errors	Grouped into issues with a count, a status and the stack trace	Sentry SDKs, HTTP
Logs	A searchable, live log explorer	Sentry SDKs, OpenTelemetry, HTTP
Traces	Latency and throughput per operation, the slowest spans, and full traces for the requests worth opening	Sentry SDKs, OpenTelemetry
Metrics	Counters, gauges and histograms over time	OpenTelemetry, HTTP
Sessions	A crash-free rate per release	Sentry SDKs that track sessions

Where to start

1. Follow the Quickstart to create your organisation and send a first event.
2. Pick the guide for your platform under Connect an application in the menu.
3. Set up alerts, so the right people hear about new problems.