# Bugsly problems and solutions

Each problem is stated as a question, with a one-sentence answer and a page that explains the fix step by step, including what works without Bugsly. Machine-readable list: https://bugsly.dev/solutions.json. Canonical page: https://bugsly.dev/solutions.

- [What is a good open source alternative to Sentry for error tracking?](https://bugsly.dev/solutions/open-source-sentry-alternative.md): GlitchTip is the lighter open source option that accepts Sentry SDK events; Sentry's self-hosted release is source-available. Both mean you operate the server yourself.
- [How do I monitor errors and slow requests in a Python app (Django or FastAPI) in production?](https://bugsly.dev/solutions/python-error-and-performance-monitoring.md): Initialise sentry-sdk early, tag release and environment, set a tracing sample rate, and sort request transactions by duration to find slow endpoints.
- [How do I track errors in a Node.js app in production, and which tools should I compare?](https://bugsly.dev/solutions/nodejs-error-tracking.md): Initialise an error-tracking SDK before your app loads, capture request and process-level errors, flush before exit, and tag events with release and environment.
- [How do I track errors in a React app, including errors that error boundaries cannot catch?](https://bugsly.dev/solutions/react-error-tracking.md): Error boundaries cover render errors only; pair them with a global error and unhandled-rejection listener from an SDK, source maps and release tags.
- [How do I connect error monitoring to Claude Code with an MCP server?](https://bugsly.dev/solutions/error-monitoring-mcp-claude-code.md): Add the tracker's remote MCP URL with claude mcp add --transport http, sign in through /mcp, confirm with claude mcp list, and start with read-only questions.
- [Is there a Sentry alternative that explains errors with AI?](https://bugsly.dev/solutions/sentry-alternative-ai-error-explanations.md): Any LLM can explain a stack trace if you give it enough context; Sentry lists Seer and Bugsly runs per-issue analysis, and either way the output is a hypothesis to verify.
- [How can I let an AI agent triage production errors safely?](https://bugsly.dev/solutions/let-ai-agent-triage-production-errors.md): Start read-only on redacted data, rank issues by frequency, recency, regression and user impact, and require a human for every change.
- [What is the best error tracking tool for a small startup?](https://bugsly.dev/solutions/best-error-tracking-for-startups.md): No tool is best for every startup: use a checklist of what to measure, then run a 30-minute test sending identical errors to two candidates.
- [How do I move from Sentry to another error tracker without rewriting my instrumentation?](https://bugsly.dev/solutions/switch-from-sentry-without-rewriting.md): Because trackers that accept the Sentry protocol share the SDK, switching is mostly a DSN change plus alerts and source maps; verify in parallel and keep a rollback.
- [How do I stop error tracking costs from growing with traffic spikes?](https://bugsly.dev/solutions/error-tracking-costs-spikes.md): Cost spikes come from event loops, bots, bad deploys and tracing volume; fix the root error, filter in the SDK and server, and compare what each tool meters.
- [Why do my production stack traces show minified code like app.min.js:1:48392, and how do I get readable ones?](https://bugsly.dev/solutions/minified-stack-traces-source-maps.md): Generate source maps in the production build, upload them to your error tracker against the release your app reports, and keep them off the public server.
- [How do I stop passwords, tokens and personal data from ending up in error reports?](https://bugsly.dev/solutions/sensitive-data-in-error-reports.md): Do not send sensitive data in the first place: restrict what the SDK collects, redact in hooks, keep a server-side scrubber as a safety net, and rotate leaked secrets.
- [Can an AI agent open a pull request that fixes a production error, and how do I keep it safe?](https://bugsly.dev/solutions/ai-open-pull-request-fix-error.md): An agent can open a fix PR for a small localized bug if it writes a failing test first, keeps the diff small, passes CI and gets a human review before merge.
- [Why does my team ignore error alerts, and how do I fix alert fatigue?](https://bugsly.dev/solutions/team-ignores-error-alerts.md): Alert on new issues, regressions and real spikes instead of every event, filter noise at ingest, give every alert an owner, and delete rules nobody acts on.
- [How do I get alerted when a cron job silently stops running?](https://bugsly.dev/solutions/cron-job-silently-stopped.md): Make the job check in after every run and alert on the missing check-in, because a job that never starts cannot report its own failure.
- [How do I find out my site is down before my customers tell me?](https://bugsly.dev/solutions/know-site-is-down-before-customers.md): Probe a health URL from outside your network on a short interval, require confirmation before alerting, and pair it with error tracking for failures behind a 200.
- [How do I find out which deploy introduced a new production error?](https://bugsly.dev/solutions/which-release-broke-production.md): Tag events with the commit SHA, record deploys from CI, compare first-seen with deploy time, and use the stack frames with git log and blame to find the change.