Instead of Sentry

Error tracking with stack traces and release health.

Partly

You can self-host Sentry, and people do, but it is a large stack. Bugsink is the small answer for exceptions and nothing else.

You lose: Performance tracing and the polish of the official SDK setup.

Start here

GlitchTip

MITa weekendnot checked

Sentry-compatible and much lighter. Fewer features, and the source lives on GitLab.

gitlab.com/glitchtip/glitchtip-backend

A database, object storage or mail config, plus backups.

Also worth a look

BugsinkOpen corea containeractive
Exceptions only, one container. No tracing, no session replay.
github.com/bugsink/bugsink www.bugsink.com
Sentry self-hostedFSL-1.1a projectactive
The real thing. Thirty containers and a serious server.
github.com/getsentry/self-hosted develop.sentry.dev/self-hosted

Facts checked 8 November 2026. Licences, activity and archive status come from each project's own repository; the verdict and the cost lines are the desk's.