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Reduce noise in error monitoring with Grouping Suggestions

January 16, 2019

By Tyler Cascade
One perennial problem we face in monitoring is dealing with noise. We don't want to miss important signals…

What we've shipped in 2018

December 27, 2018

By Tyler Cascade
With 2018 almost coming to a close, let's take a look at all the product improvements we've shipped this year…

Enhancements to the Rollbar Deploy API

October 09, 2018

By Jesse Gibbs
Rollbar introduced Versions a few months ago, providing developers a way to easily see whether their most…

Introducing Versions

August 31, 2018

By Tyler Cascade
We built Versions for customers who are adopting software development practices like Continuous Delivery. One…

Introducing All Items View

August 30, 2018

By Tyler Cascade
Increasingly more software teams - ourselves and our customers included - are adopting practices like…

Under-the-hood with Scout: a look at a New Relic alternative

April 05, 2018

By Derek Haynes
This is a guest post by Derek Haynes from Scout, an APM that integrates with Rollbar. When New Relic launched…

Send Rollbar Error Alerts to Cisco Spark

March 01, 2018

By Tyler Cascade
Cisco Spark is a enterprise collaboration platform from Cisco that includes messaging, video conferencing…

Introducing the Account Dashboard 📉

February 07, 2018

By Jason Skowronski
Update: As of Aug 1st, 2018 we've made Account Dashboard available to all users, including those on Essentials…

What We Shipped in 2017 📦

December 28, 2017

By Mike Smith
At Rollbar, 2017 has been a year of exciting growth and development for the product and the team. We've grown…

Quickly edit and merge many error items at once

September 20, 2017

By Jason Skowronski
Rollbar just added a new feature that allows you to quickly edit and merge hundreds or thousands of items at…

Merging versus Custom Fingerprinting

June 23, 2017

By Jesse Gibbs
With the recent announcement of support for manual merging, there are now multiple ways to combine occurrences…

Introducing Error Merging ⎌

May 22, 2017

By Mike Smith
We're excited to introduce merging (and un-merging) of errors! Merging errors lets you combine multiple errors…

Error alert notifications + how to use them for better monitoring

April 04, 2017

By Rivkah Standig
Rollbar offers an impressive array of error alerting and notification options for you to choose from, which is…

Building the IoT Rollbar error alarm 🚨

March 11, 2017

By Taron Foxworth
Our friends at Losant wanted to share how they built an actual 'error-alarm' using the Rollbar and Losant API…

A better error monitoring workflow Rollbar + Atlassian

October 12, 2016

By Mike Smith
Dealing with errors can be time consuming and often an interruption in your everyday development workflow. It…

5 ways to reduce noise when logging your JavaScript exceptions

August 16, 2016

By Daniel Steuernol
Developing and maintaining user facing software is a challenge and a very distracting one at that. :-) Often…

Streamline monitoring with Rollbar & Datadog

April 25, 2016

By Mike Smith
Good news! We’ve recently released a new integration with Datadog to help extend your error monitoring options…

6 ways to improve error grouping in Rollbar

April 11, 2016

By Chris Pfohl
You're two weeks into using Rollbar. You've watched in amazement as issue after issue comes in without a…

Query Rollbar data directly from our API

February 15, 2016

By Chris Pfohl
Good news for RQL users. Until recently RQL usage was limited to the Rollbar interface. That's no longer a…

Rollbar add-on now available for Bitbucket

June 11, 2015

By Mike Smith
On the heels of Atlassian's announcement of Atlassian Connect for Bitbucket yesterday, we're excited to…

Edit and rename error item titles

March 26, 2015

By Mike Smith
You can now rename/edit your error titles. Fix ugly long titles. Hover over, click, edit, and save. rename…

Daily, Hourly, New Errors and Trend graphs are now clickable

March 10, 2015

By Mike Smith
Yes, that's correct. Daily, Hourly, New Errors, and Trend graphs are now clickable. You can find and fix…

Get notifications every time an error occurs

February 26, 2015

By Mike Smith
You can now setup notifications every time an error occurs. Previously specific error Notifications were only…

October Release Roundup

October 31, 2014

By Brian Rue
Happy Halloween, everyone! Here's a roundup of what's new in Rollbar this month. Ruby Upgrades The gem for…

RQL minor updates

September 25, 2014

By Brian Rue
A couple minor updates to RQL today: IS NULL and IS NOT NULL are now supported Fixed a crash in queries that…

New "Reports" API calls

August 20, 2014

By Brian Rue
We've released two new API calls, exposing some of the data on the Dashboard via our JSON API. Use the…

Occurrence counts by minute

July 31, 2014

By Brian Rue
We've released an improvement to our Item Detail pages, adding a graph showing the aggregate occurrence counts…

More stack trace filename search filters

July 22, 2014

By Brian Rue
We've released several new search filters to make it easier to find errors by the filenames in their stack…

Missing daily summary emails

July 21, 2014

By Cory Virok
We just rolled out a fix for missing daily summary emails. The bug was introduced last week when we refactored…

More Powerful Custom Grouping

June 09, 2014

By Brian Rue
Our Custom Grouping feature just got a lot more powerful. It's now possible to: group TimeoutErrors by the…

Deploy emails show which commits were deployed

June 04, 2014

By Brian Rue
We recently added a feature I've wanted for a long time: our Deploy email notifications now show which commits…

Daily summary email bugfix

June 02, 2014

By Cory Virok
Last week we fixed a bug in our daily summary emails that a customer reported on May 1st. The bug caused some…

Ad-hoc error reporting with Rollbar CLI

August 08, 2013

By Cory Virok
We just coded up a quick tool to send Rollbar messages from the command line. It’s useful for quick, one-off…

May Release Roundup

May 29, 2013

By Brian Rue
Here’s a roundup of what’s new at Rollbar in the month of May. Big Features We revamped our notifications…

Rules Engine for Notifications, Plus Integrations with Campfire, Hipchat, JIRA and Trello

May 06, 2013

By Brian Rue
Today we’re revamping the model for defining what you want to be notified about from Rollbar. Rollbar now…

Improved grouping for Javascript errors

March 21, 2013

By Brian Rue
We’ve released an updated to how Javascript errors are grouped in Rollbar. The new update does a better job of…

Real-time Search for Exceptions and Errors

October 24, 2012

By Brian Rue and Cory Virok
We’re happy today to announce the release of real-time search. You can now search your exceptions, errors, and…

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