Highlight.io alternative: moving to BugTape

What carries over

• BugTape records browser errors, failed requests and console output automatically.
• Each report includes a replay of the page before the error, rebuilt from recorded DOM events. It covers up to ten minutes before the report, not the whole session.
• User identification: H.identify() becomes identify().
• Server errors: use the Node.js or Python SDK, or send them to POST /v1/ingest with your project key.

What does not carry over

• Full session recording. BugTape only keeps the recording that comes with a bug report.
• Custom events and metrics. There is no equivalent of H.track().
• Log search, traces and dashboards.

Switch in three steps

1. Create a free project and copy its project key from Setup.
2. Remove the Highlight.io SDK and its H.init() call.
3. Add BugTape once, after your consent banner allows it:

<script type="module">
  import { init, identify } from 'https://app.bugtape.ai/bugtape.mjs';
  init({ apiKey: 'bt_live_your_key_here' });
  identify({ email: user.email, userId: user.id });
</script>

With a bundler, install the same SDK from npm instead:

npm install @bugtape/sdk

import { init, identify } from '@bugtape/sdk';
init({ apiKey: 'bt_live_your_key_here' });
identify({ email: user.email, userId: user.id });

Throw a test error and open it in the console to check the setup. The quickstart has the details.

Next

Read about the Product, see how BugTape compares, check Pricing, read the DocsBlog or try the Demo. Questions: hi@bugtape.ai.