Retrace

Find Hidden Errors in Your Code

Track All Errors

Retrace’s powerful code profiling can even track errors you aren’t logging

Monitor Error Rates

Quickly identify big spikes in errors before all of your customers are impacted

Email & SMS Notifications

Get notified when a new type of error is discovered within your app

Quickly Find & Fix Production Errors

Troubleshooting application problems is easy when you can correlate all of your data together!

Go From an Error to Full Transaction Trace

Retrace integrates error tracking and application logging with its APM code profiling functionality.

View related log messages to the error
Detailed transaction traces for your applications
View log statements, errors, SQL queries executed, external HTTP web service calls, and more

Track Errors Between Deployments

Identify new errors that happen just after a new deployment. Monitor error rates to ensure your application is running smoothly.

Retrace integrates with common deployment tools like Jenkins, Team City, Octopus and many others.

Shipping Your Errors to Retrace is Easy

Retrace supports common logging frameworks for most programming languages. A simple configuration change is all that is needed.

.NET – NLog, log4net, Serilog
Java – logback, log4j

Retrace APM can also automatically collect exceptions being thrown in your code, including many hidden exceptions!

Logging libraries for many other languages are also supported in addition to our REST API.

Java

Retrace supports Java logs via logback, log4j, or our Java SDK.

Example configuration for log4j:

<appender name="Stackify" class="com.stackify.log.log4j12.StackifyLogAppender">
    <param name="apiKey" value="YOUR_ACTIVATION_KEY"/>
</appender>
<root>
    <appender-ref ref="Stackify" />
</root>

.NET

Retrace supports .NET logs via log4net, NLog, Serilog, or our .NET SDK.

Example configuration for log4net:

<log4net>
   <root>
      <level value="DEBUG" />
      <appender-ref ref="StackifyAppender" />
   </root>
   <appender name="StackifyAppender" type="StackifyLib.log4net.StackifyAppender, StackifyLib.log4net" />
</log4net>

PHP

Retrace supports PHP logs via Monolog, log4php and Syslog.

View PHP logging documentation

Node.JS

Retrace supports Node.JS logs via Winston.

View Node.JS logging documentation

Ruby

Retrace supports Ruby logs via the Rails logger.

View Ruby logging documentation

Python

View Python logging documentation.

Top Error Tracking Features

View Web Request Details

For every error that you log, Retrace will attempt to collect any details about the current web request. These details are very valuable to get more context.

URL
Full stack trace
User details
Header, session, and cookie values

Identify Unique Errors

One of the key features of any error tracking system is the ability to de-duplicate and uniquely identify errors. This enables you to track how often each individual error occurs and enable alerts for new errors.

You could send all of your errors to Elasticsearch, a database, or a log management system. Unfortunately, those systems don’t understand how to uniquely identify errors.

Real-time Tailing

Trying to troubleshoot something in production? Use Retrace to search and filter for exactly what you are looking for and then turn on tailing mode. The log viewer will automatically update with new errors and logs.

View Related Log Messages

Since Retrace provides both error tracking and log management in one solution, you can view all of the log messages that are related to an error.Being able to see the related log messages provides much more context about what your code was doing.

Monitor Error Rates

Quickly identify problems with your software by monitoring your error rates. Get notified instantly when problems suddenly arise with a database query, external web service, or other application dependencies.

Retrace APM will alert you and give you all the details to identify the root cause.

Ignore Specific Errors

Some errors happen all the time and are essentially noise. They could be errors that you can’t fix in your code or they could be random SQL timeouts or similar errors.

With Retrace you can ignore specific errors. They still get tracked if you need to see them, but they get suppressed from normal reporting so they don’t skew your reporting.