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BugSnag vs Rollbar: which is more reliable? (2026)

Rollbar is more reliable than BugSnag, scoring 96.1 vs 67.4 out of 100. Over the last 90 days BugSnag reported 2 incidents and Rollbar reported 3, with effective uptime of 99.66% and 99.98% respectively. Rollbar resolves incidents faster on average (37m).

Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score

BugSnag

67.4/100

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Rollbar

96.1/100

Operational

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MetricBugSnagRollbar
Reliability score67.496.1
Rank (monitoring & observability tools)#10#1
Uptime (90 days)99.66%99.98%
Incidents (90 days)23
Partial / major outages00
Avg time to resolve1d37m
Outages we detected00
Transparency score100/100100/100

Where BugSnag and Rollbar differ

  • Rollbar reported 50% more incidents than BugSnag over the last 90 days (3 vs 2).
  • Rollbar fixes problems faster: 37m on average, against 1d for BugSnag (39.3× quicker).
  • BugSnag's longest outage on record lasted 6m (Nov 10, 2025); Rollbar's lasted 12h 9m (May 18, 2026).

90-day uptime

BugSnag

Aug 4, 2026 – Aug 19, 2026: no incidentsAug 20, 2026: 98.53% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 21, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026: no incidentsOct 1, 2026: 94.10% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 2, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 3, 2026: 91.79% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 4, 2026 – Nov 1, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago99.660% average daily uptimeToday

Rollbar

Aug 4, 2026 – Aug 31, 2026: no incidentsSep 1, 2026: 99.23% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 2, 2026 – Sep 15, 2026: no incidentsSep 16, 2026: 99.72% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 17, 2026 – Oct 27, 2026: no incidentsOct 28, 2026: 99.86% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 29, 2026 – Nov 1, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago99.987% average daily uptimeToday

Recent BugSnag incidents

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Recent Rollbar incidents

  • Degraded performanceOct 28, 2026 · resolved in 13m

    Increased occurrence processing pipeline latency

    Affected: Source map processing pipeline, Proguard processing pipeline, Core Processing Pipeline, iOS Symbolication processing pipeline

  • MaintenanceOct 23, 2026 · ongoing

    Database maintenance.

    Affected: API Tier (api.rollbar.com), Proguard processing pipeline, Core Processing Pipeline, Web Application (app.rollbar.com), iOS Symbolication processing pipeline, Source map processing pipeline

  • MaintenanceOct 18, 2026 · ongoing

    Database maintenance

    Affected: Core Processing Pipeline, Web Application (app.rollbar.com), iOS Symbolication processing pipeline, Source map processing pipeline, API Tier (api.rollbar.com), Proguard processing pipeline +1 more

  • MaintenanceOct 14, 2026 · ongoing

    Database Maintenance

    Affected: Web Application (app.rollbar.com), iOS Symbolication processing pipeline, Source map processing pipeline, API Tier (api.rollbar.com), Proguard processing pipeline, Core Processing Pipeline

  • MaintenanceSep 23, 2026 · ongoing

    Database Maintenance

    Affected: iOS Symbolication processing pipeline, Source map processing pipeline, API Tier (api.rollbar.com), Proguard processing pipeline, Homepage (rollbar.com), Core Processing Pipeline +1 more

  • MaintenanceSep 21, 2026 · ongoing

    Database Maintenance

    Affected: Source map processing pipeline, API Tier (api.rollbar.com), Proguard processing pipeline, Homepage (rollbar.com), Core Processing Pipeline, Web Application (app.rollbar.com) +1 more

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