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Error tracking, uptime, and less noise

Practical notes on catching bugs in production without drowning in alerts.

Comparison

A Sentry alternative for small teams: what you actually need from error tracking

Looking for a Sentry alternative? What a small team needs from an error tracker, where Sentry is still the better choice, and how BugCatch covers errors, uptime, logs and traces on one flat plan.

Uptime

Uptime monitoring and error tracking in one tool

Why uptime checks, cron heartbeats, status pages and error tracking belong together, and how to set them up in BugCatch: 5-minute HTTP checks, retries, SSL and domain expiry, and cron monitors.

Guide

Error tracking for NestJS and Node.js: a practical setup

How to set up error tracking in a NestJS or Express app: capture unhandled exceptions with a global filter, skip 404 and 400 noise, attach users and requests, trace slow routes and report server metrics.

Noise

Why bot scanners flood your error tracker with 404s, and how to stop it

Vulnerability scanners probe hundreds of paths like /wp-admin and /.env in seconds, and each one can become a new issue and alert. Three layers that stop it: skip 4xx errors, group unknown routes, and ban bursts with fail2ban.