# Bugsink

7 Hacker News commenters recommended Bugsink and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Free error tracker that people use as a Sentry alternative and recommend to others.

## Why people recommend it

- Replaces Sentry for error tracking (3 comments): "Happy to see Bugsink mentioned here as a solution for Error Tracking _and_ to not see it show up as one of the "harder parts"" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47087767)) "that I happily use : https://www.bugsink.com/ . It's trying to solve the exact same pain." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45866237)) "Bugsink to replace sentry" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47100952))
- Strongly recommended and praised (2 comments): "had no idea about BugSink so amazing, now I know" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123057)) "Can heartily recommend it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45864745))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Grafana](https://hackerapproved.com/p/grafana.md): 71 recommend
- [Prometheus](https://hackerapproved.com/p/prometheus.md): 48 recommend
- [Datadog](https://hackerapproved.com/p/datadog.md): 40 recommend
- [Sentry](https://hackerapproved.com/p/sentry.md): 31 recommend
- [SigNoz](https://hackerapproved.com/p/signoz.md): 19 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Bugsink", https://hackerapproved.com/p/bugsink/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).