GlitchTip
Top pickA lightweight, fully open-source, Sentry-SDK-compatible error tracker.
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sovereigntyGlitchTip is a from-scratch Django reimplementation of Sentry's original open-source codebase, built to stay simple and stay open. It accepts Sentry's own SDKs unmodified — you only change the DSN — and runs comfortably on a small VPS with Postgres (Valkey/Redis optional for extra performance). It covers error tracking, basic performance/uptime monitoring, and releases, without chasing Sentry's full APM feature set.
OPEN SOURCEMITSELF-HOSTLOCAL-FIRST
LicenseMIT
PricingFree to self-host; optional hosted plans from $0 (1K events/mo) to $250/mo (3M events/mo)
Open sourceYes
Self-hostableYes
Local-first dataYes
What it does well
- +Fully MIT-licensed, no Fair Source or field-of-use restrictions
- +Drop-in for existing Sentry SDKs — swap the DSN, no code changes
- +Runs on as little as 512MB RAM; Postgres is the only hard dependency
- +Actively maintained with monthly releases as of mid-2026
Where it falls short
- −Deliberately thinner feature set than Sentry — no full distributed tracing/profiling suite
- −Smaller ecosystem and community than Sentry itself
- −Frontend and backend live in separate repos, adding a small setup step
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