Use GlitchTip for error tracking

Cost

Open source. MIT licence, free to run on your own servers. Hosted GlitchTip has a free tier and paid plans.

How to do it

GlitchTip is an open source error tracker that accepts events from the Sentry SDKs. It reached 1.0 in July 2020 and is under MIT. Version 6.2.6 came out on 7 August 2026. Its Docker image has about 8.9 million pulls. The SDKs carry the popularity test, with about 24 million weekly npm downloads for @sentry/node and 34 million on PyPI for sentry-sdk. It needs Postgres 14 or newer and 512 MB of RAM. Keep personal data out of events, as Keep personal data out of logs says. Choose something else when you need a feature GlitchTip lacks, and use Sentry as the next rule says.

Examples

Using these examples: they show one way to follow this rule. Keep the behaviour and the check, not the syntax. Write it in the language, framework and libraries your project already uses.

JavaScript example

import * as Sentry from '@sentry/node';

Sentry.init({
  dsn: process.env.GLITCHTIP_DSN,
  release: process.env.RELEASE,
  sendDefaultPii: false,
});

Python example

import os
import sentry_sdk

sentry_sdk.init(dsn=os.environ["GLITCHTIP_DSN"], release=os.environ["RELEASE"], send_default_pii=False)

How to check

A test error thrown in production after a deploy shows up in GlitchTip within 60 seconds, with the release tag and a readable stack trace.

Sources

• GlitchTip 1.0
• Install GlitchTip
• GlitchTip source

Related rules

• Keep personal data out of logs in Operations