Best Debugging Tools for Startups

Scout Monitoring

Scout Monitoring is Application Performance Monitoring (APM) that finds what you can't see in charts. Scout APM is application performance monitoring that streamlines troubleshooting by helping developers find and fix performance issues before customers ever see them. With real-time alerting, a developer-centric UI, and tracing logic that ties bottlenecks directly to source code, Scout APM helps you spend less time debugging and more time building a great product. Quickly identify, prioritize, and resolve performance problems – memory bloat, N+1 queries, slow database queries, and more – with an agent that instruments the dependencies you need at a fraction of the overhead. Scout APM is built for developers, by developers, and monitors Ruby, PHP, Python, Node.js, and Elixir applications.

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Bugsnag

Bugsnag monitors application stability so you can make data-driven decisions on whether you should be building new features, or fixing bugs. ‍ We are a full stack stability monitoring solution with best-in-class functionality for mobile applications. Rich, end-to-end diagnostics to help you reproduce every error. A simple and thoughtful user experience for all your apps in one dashboard. The definitive metric for app health — the common language for product and engineering teams. Not all bugs are worth fixing. Focus on the ones that matter to your business. Extensible libraries with opinionated defaults and countless customization options. Subject matter experts who care deeply about error reduction and the health of your apps.

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Starting Price: $59 per month

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Bugfender

Beenario

Remote logger, crash reporter and in-app user feedback Bugfender is a log storage service for application developers. Bugfender collects everything happening in the application, even if it doesn’t crash, in order to reproduce and resolve bugs more effectively and provide better customer support. Bugfender respects your user's privacy, is battery and network efficient and keeps logging even if the device is offline. Track and destroy bugs before users even notice. Bugfender logs all bugs on all devices and sends the results in seconds - enabling you to find and fix bugs before your users even get an error message. Achieve 5-Star Ratings. Bugfender doesn’t just log bugs and crashes. It logs all the information you’ll ever need so you can build a clear picture of your users and earn those crucial five-star ratings. Deliver world-class customer service. Our logging tool enables you to target individual users and provide personalized customer support.

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Starting Price: €29 per month

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Ambassador

Ambassador Labs

Ambassador Edge Stack is a Kubernetes-native API Gateway that delivers the scalability, security, and simplicity for some of the world's largest Kubernetes installations. Edge Stack makes securing microservices easy with a comprehensive set of security functionality, including automatic TLS, authentication, rate limiting, WAF integration, and fine-grained access control. The API Gateway contains a modern Kubernetes ingress controller that supports a broad range of protocols including gRPC and gRPC-Web, supports TLS termination, and provides traffic management controls for resource availability. Why use Ambassador Edge Stack API Gateway? - Accelerate Scalability: Manage high traffic volumes and distribute incoming requests across multiple backend services, ensuring reliable application performance. - Enhanced Security: Protect your APIs from unauthorized access and malicious attacks with robust security features. - Improve Productivity & Developer Experience

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PlatformIO

Professional collaborative platform for embedded development. PlatformIO is a next-generation, collaborative platform for embedded development that enables customers to save resources and time by vastly reducing the expenses and labor associated with creating and maintaining product software. We believe the embedded systems industry desperately needs reinvention. Not only are the IDEs and tools built with technology from the 1990s, but they involve many complex requirements and platform-dependent configurations that turn away talented developers from becoming embedded engineers. The most loved IDE solution for Microsoft Visual Studio Code. A user-friendly and extensible integrated development environment with a set of professional development instruments, providing modern and powerful features to speed up yet simplify the creation and delivery of embedded products. PlatformIO is written in pure Python and doesn't depend on any additional libraries/tools from an operation system.

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Rollbar

Discover, predict, and resolve errors in real-time. Go beyond crash reporting, error tracking, logging and error monitoring. Get instant and accurate alerts — plus a real-time feed — of all errors, including unhandled exceptions. Our automation-grade grouping uses machine learning to reduce noise and gives you error signals you can trust.

Starting Price: $19.00/month

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Telepresence

Ambassador Labs

Telepresence streamlines your local development process, enabling immediate feedback. You can launch your local environment on your laptop, equipped with your preferred tools, while Telepresence seamlessly connects them to the microservices and test databases they rely on. It simplifies and expedites collaborative development, debugging, and testing within Kubernetes environments by establishing a seamless connection between your local machine and shared remote Kubernetes clusters. Why Telepresence: Faster feedback loops: Spend less time building, containerizing, and deploying code. Get immediate feedback on code changes by running your service in the cloud from your local machine. Shift testing left: Create a remote-to-local debugging experience. Catch bugs pre-production without the configuration headache of remote debugging. Deliver better, faster user experience: Get new features and applications into the hands of users faster and more frequently.

Starting Price: Free

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Solidity Debugger Pro

Free & Open source. Cross-platform. Supports all EVM blockchains. Solidity Debugger Pro (sdbg) is a VS Code extension that adds feature-rich debugging capabilities for Solidity projects. It supports all EVM-compatible blockchains, allowing developers to easily debug smart contracts locally or on a forked node. Sdbg brings native debugging support for the popular Hardhat framework.

Starting Price: Free

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Errsole

1) Minimal Setup: Just include the Errsole package in your code—no need for dedicated servers, software installations, or complicated configurations. 2) Logger++: Errsole automatically collects all logs from the Node.js console. Additionally, it provides advanced logging functions that support multiple log levels and the ability to attach metadata to logs. 3) Log Viewer: View, filter, and search through your logs using the built-in Web Dashboard. Secure authentication and team management features ensure that only you and your team can access the logs. 4) Critical Error Notifications: Get immediate notifications when your app crashes or encounters critical errors. The notification includes the error message, the app name, the environment, the server name, and a direct link to view the error in your logs.

Starting Price: 0

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Airbrake

Capture and track application exceptions in minutes with Airbrake, an error monitoring and detection solution. Fast and effective, Airbrake enables users to quickly identify, asses and resolve errors such as parameters, stacktraces, affected users, and more. Airbrake features detailed dashboards that tracks and manages errors with ease. Airbrake is also accessible via mobile devices with its mobile optimized web application.

Starting Price: $49.00/month

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RubyMotion

Scratchwork Development LLC

RubyMotion lets you quickly develop cross-platform native apps for iOS, Android and OS X, all using your favorite editor and the awesome Ruby language you know and love. RubyMotion features a statically-compiled version of the Ruby language designed for native mobile platforms, as well as a command-line based extensible toolchain that will let you easily customize your development workflow just the way you like it. Thanks to RubyMotion, your Ruby developers can write iOS and Android apps, today. Ruby makes programmers happy and productive, and by sharing the same language across platforms you get to reuse code, save time, and ship faster.

Starting Price: Free

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Thundra

Thundra is a developer platform company that empowers application teams to develop, debug, test, and monitor modern microservices on the cloud. By offering everything from automated instrumentation to cloud debugging and test optimization in a single platform, Thundra eliminates the need for multiple tools for pre-production and production environments

Starting Price: $90 per month

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Honeycomb

Honeycomb.io

Log management. Upgraded. With Honeycomb. Honeycomb is built for modern dev teams to better understand application performance, debug & improve log management. With rapid query, find unknown unknowns across system logs, metrics & traces with interactive charts for the deepest view against raw, high cardinality data. Configure Service Level Objective (SLOs) on what users care about so you cut-down noisy alerts and prioritize the work. Reduce on-call toil, ship code faster and keep customers happy. Pinpoint the cause. Optimize your code. See your prod in hi-res. Our SLOs tell you when your customers are having a bad experience so that you can immediately debug why those issues are happening, all within the same interface. Use our Query Builder to easily slice and dice your data to visualize behavioral patterns for individual users and services (grouped by any dimensions).

Starting Price: $70 per month

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Disbug

Dev teams use Disbug chrome extension to capture bugs with screen recording, screenshots, console logs, network logs, user events and upload them to the project management tool, with a single click! Explain and narrate the problem visually. Let developers see exactly what happened when it went wrong. One-click capture of the entire context for bug reports. Instantly know what went wrong from every angle by capturing the complete session. Get consolidated technical logs directly in your favorite tools and with a link to see the detailed logs. Centralize everything in your issue trackers. Seamless integration with the tools of your choice. Automatically create tickets in the pre-configured issue tracker when you report the bug. Expedites the debugging process. Gives you more clarity and makes development easy. Cut down your bug reporting time by 60%. Streamline the work of QA testers, developers & project managers at costs less than a cup of coffee!

Starting Price: $33 per month

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Kaption

Kaption.co

Kaption is the leading AI-first analytics and feedback tool for digital marketers. Get the insights you need to optimize your digital experience and move business forward. Eliminate guess work, know why it happens, and iterate a lot faster. Often the best way to persuade is to first see things through your customers eyes. Do you know how they are using your website? With Kaption you can visualize your user's journey and any bumps along the way. Excellence comes from good information. Without data you are either lucky, or wrong. Focus your efforts with conversion and monitoring tools. Free heatmap analytics to view your user engagement with each element on your site and how it affects their behavior. See where users get stuck, increase conversion rates, and debug your product faster with smart metadata.

Starting Price: $25 per month

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Shake

Reports arrive to you instantly, automatically supplemented with a ton of useful data so you can fix them 50X faster. Whenever users notice a bug, they just shake their phone to report it, without ever leaving your app. When they shake their device, Shake opens up and allows them to send you feedback without ever leaving your app. Report yourself any info from the user’s device you want. Use .setMetadata() to easily adjust the data to your debugging requirements. See the user’s taps around your app, .log() custom events and see all their network traffic prior to reporting the bug to you. On the web Dashboard you can, for example, effortlessly find only bugs reported from iPad Airs that were in landscape mode and offline. Get bug notifications immediately in your team chat. Or, have tasks created directly in your issue tracker of choice. Shake was built to play nicely with the tools your team already uses.

Starting Price: $50 per month

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Jam

If you’ve taken a screenshot or screen recording, you already know how to Jam. Jam auto-magically creates bug reports with all the info engineers need. Jam creates better bug reports in whatever tool you use. Share links to your bug reports or send them directly to your favorite issue tracker. Your teammates benefit whether they’ve signed up or not. Jam captures everything an engineer needs to debug. We've cut out the need for all those follow-up calls to share more context. Everything they need is right there. Perfect bug reports, every time. No more back and forth. Integrates tightly with your favorite issue trackers & tools. As easy as taking a screenshot. Trusted by thousands of teams at companies. Report bugs in seconds, without disrupting your workflow. Jam currently supports developers during the code review and testing cycles by capturing bug diagnostic data and instantly replaying the bug to seamlessly identify what needs to be fixed.

Starting Price: $10 per month

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Polar Signals

Polar Signals cloud is an always-on, zero-instrumentation continuous profiling product that helps improve performance, understand incidents, and lower infrastructure costs. With just one command and the easiest onboarding guide you’ll ever see, you can start saving costs and optimizing performance in your infrastructure. Travel back in time to pinpoint incidents and issues. Profiling data provides unique insight and depth into what a process executed over time. Utilize profiling data collected over time to confidently and statistically identify hot paths for optimization. Many organizations have 20-30% of resources wasted with code paths that could be easily optimized. Polar Signals Cloud employs an exceptional blend of technologies, purpose-built to deliver the profiling toolset essential for today's evolving infrastructure and applications. With a zero instrumentation setup, deploy immediately and reap the benefits of actionable observability data.

Starting Price: $50 per month

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Latta

Latta AI is an innovative platform designed to streamline the software development process by automating the detection and resolution of bugs. By recording user sessions and applying AI-driven fixes, Latta AI enables developers, project managers, and testers to focus more on feature development, thereby boosting productivity and accelerating release cycles. The platform integrates seamlessly with popular version control systems like GitHub and GitLab and maintains strict security protocols to ensure code privacy and protection. Additionally, Latta AI offers a plugin for JetBrains IDEs, allowing developers to access its bug-fixing tools directly within their development environment. This integration facilitates quick identification and resolution of issues without the need to leave the IDE. Overall, Latta AI aims to reduce the time developers spend on debugging by up to 40%, enhancing efficiency and allowing teams to focus on innovation.

Starting Price: $0.05 per fix

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Instabug

Instabug provides in-app feedback and bug reporting to mobile apps. After integrating the SDK, it allows you to have seamless two-way communication with users or testers while providing detailed environment report for developers. The integration process takes less than a minute and the results are outstanding! The top apps in the world rely on Instabug. We provide exceptional support 24/7 and is constantly rated highly as a bug reporting & tracking tool. Expand your mobile team's understanding of performance and user experience to enable faster fix times, precise performance metrics and error prioritization. With visibility into 100% of user sessions, quickly prioritize to focus on the issues that matter most to you and your user’s experience. Quickly integrate instabug to your apps with a single line of code. Instabug enables your team to find the balance between new feature development and stability.

Starting Price: $83.00/month

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Bugsee

See video, network and logs that led to bugs and crashes in live apps. No need to reproduce intermittent bugs. With Bugsee, all the crucial data is always there. All important traces from your app. Now you know what exactly led to unexpected behavior. See the video of all user actions, communication with the backend and system state that led to the problem. Get statistics on similar crashes. See trends broken down by device type, OS version and time. Get the exact filename, method and a line number of the crash. See states of all other threads running at the time of the crash. See all HTTP and HTTPS requests and responses – headers and body – from and to your app. Replay all app’s console logs synchronized to the video and network traffic.

Starting Price: $99 per month

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Sentry

From error tracking to performance monitoring, developers can see what actually matters, solve quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. With Sentry’s performance monitoring you can trace performance issues to poor-performing api calls and slow database queries. Source code, error filters, stack locals — Sentry enhances application performance monitoring with stack traces. Quickly identify performance issues before they become downtime. View the entire end-to-end distributed trace to see the exact, poor-performing API call and surface any related errors. Breadcrumbs make application development a little easier by showing you the trails of events that lead to the error(s).

Starting Price: $26 per month

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Seagence

Seagence Technologies

Using Seagence’s unique execution path technology combined with machine learning, receive realtime alerts with root cause when defects occur in your production Java applications. Fix your code without needing any debugging. Attach a lightweight runtime java agent when you start your application. As your users access the application, Seagence agent collects data about how requests are being processed. So give Seagence 24 hours to collect enough sample for analysis. The collected data is fed to Seagence's analytics engine in realtime which finds defects when they occur and alerts. Know that Seagence unearths all defects in your application including unknown. With Seagence provided defect and root cause in hand, you fix your broken code. Continuously monitoring your production application, Seagence proactively finds defects and their root cause in realtime thus eliminating the need for debugging.

Starting Price: $52 per month

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Chrome DevTools

Google

Chrome DevTools is a set of web developer tools built directly into the Google Chrome browser. DevTools can help you edit pages on-the-fly and diagnose problems quickly, which ultimately helps you build better websites, faster. There are many ways to open DevTools, because different users want quick access to different parts of the DevTools UI. When you want to work with the DOM or CSS, right-click an element on the page and select Inspect to jump into the Elements panel. Or press Command+Option+C (Mac) or Control+Shift+C (Windows, Linux, Chrome OS). When you want to see logged messages or run JavaScript, press Command+Option+J (Mac) or Control+Shift+J (Windows, Linux, Chrome OS) to jump straight into the Console panel. Toggle various overlays and speed up DOM tree navigation with badges. The main uses of the Chrome DevTools Console are logging messages and running JavaScript.

Starting Price: Free

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Firefox Developer Tools

Mozilla

Firefox Developer Tools is a set of web developer tools built into Firefox. You can use them to examine, edit, and debug HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This section contains detailed guides to all of the tools as well as information on how to debug Firefox for Android, how to extend DevTools, and how to debug the browser as a whole. You can open the Firefox Developer Tools from the menu by selecting Tools > Web Developer > Web Developer Tools or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + I or F12 on Windows and Linux, or Cmd + Opt + I on macOS.

Starting Price: Free

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SonarQube for IDE

SonarSource

Easy to use, no configuration needed — just install from your favorite IDE marketplace and continue to code while SonarQube for IDE (formerly SonarLint) does its job. Your current linting tools may come with overhead – specialized tools for languages or longer setup and config time. With SonarQube for IDE, you can settle on a single solution to address your Code Quality and Code Security issues. We have you covered with hundreds of unique, language-specific rules to catch Bugs, Code Smells, and Security Vulnerabilities right in the IDE, as you code. From dangerous regex patterns to non-compliant coding standards, SonarQube for IDE is your true confidante in delivering error-free code. With an intelligent tool by your side, your mistakes are only visible to you so you can understand them, quickly remediate them, and learn along the way.

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Zipy

Zipy is the go-to digital experience platform that combines product analytics, error monitoring, and session replay capabilities in one. Here, you can gain deep insights into user behavior, reduce time to resolution of issues, and enhance customer satisfaction.

Starting Price: $29 per month

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Buglab

Automatically detect bugs and UI/UX discrepancies. Finding bugs is not only difficult but repetitive and boring too. With Buglab, you can easily detect UI/UX issues in websites, platforms, and web apps by automating the testing process. Accelerate development, and ensure client-facing software quality effortlessly while focusing on the important aspects of your business. Find UI bugs before they cost you. Buglab automates website testing by allowing you to simulate any kind of user action with just a few clicks, and without writing a single line of code. You can create any suitable sequence, to ensure your website changes are not causing any bugs or functionality changes. Once a test has been set, the system will display the results and highlight the differences between your base, and the new version of your website. Group your tests in logical suites and projects, and schedule them with different schedules.

Starting Price: $39 per month

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SwapCode AI

SwapCode AI is a special helper that makes it easy to change one kind of code into another. Imagine if you were playing with blocks, and you wanted to turn a square block into a round one—it does that for code! It helps developers and teams make their code work in new ways without breaking anything. It works with lots of different types of code, like the ones used to make websites, games, and apps. For example, if you have a puzzle piece that fits in a Java puzzle but needs to fit in a Python puzzle, SwapCode AI knows how to reshape it perfectly! It even makes sure the new piece is easy to read and use. SwapCode AI is super smart and fits right into your tools, so you can use it while you’re working without any extra steps. It helps teams work together, even if they’re using different tools or languages.

Starting Price: $20/month

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Request Metrics

Request Metrics makes web performance easy with real-user monitoring and automated Lighthouse testing—helping you boost Core Web Vitals, SEO, and user experience. Track real visitors, not just lab tests, with automatic noise cancellation, actionable insights, and detailed element attribution. Our scheduled Lighthouse tests detect regressions before they hurt rankings, while real-user data keeps you informed on how your site performs in the wild. Filter by page, device, region, or vendor to uncover performance bottlenecks, and get instant alerts when something slows down. With built-in vendor tracking, you’ll know exactly which third-party scripts are hurting your load times. No complicated setup, no code changes—just fast, reliable performance monitoring designed for modern websites. Get started for free today!

Starting Price: $34 per month

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Compare the Top Debugging Tools for Startups as of April 2025

What are Debugging Tools for Startups?

Scout Monitoring

Bugsnag

Bugfender

Ambassador

PlatformIO

Rollbar

Telepresence

Solidity Debugger Pro

Errsole

Airbrake

RubyMotion

Thundra

Honeycomb

Disbug

Kaption

Shake

Jam

Polar Signals

Latta

Instabug

Bugsee

Sentry

Seagence

Chrome DevTools

Firefox Developer Tools

SonarQube for IDE

Zipy

Buglab

SwapCode AI

Request Metrics

Best Debugging Tools for Startups

Compare the Top Debugging Tools for Startups as of April 2025

What are Debugging Tools for Startups?

Scout Monitoring

Bugsnag

Bugfender

Ambassador

PlatformIO

Rollbar

Telepresence

Solidity Debugger Pro

Errsole

Airbrake

RubyMotion

Thundra

Honeycomb

Disbug

Kaption

Shake

Jam

Polar Signals

Latta

Instabug

Bugsee

Sentry

Seagence

Chrome DevTools

Firefox Developer Tools

SonarQube for IDE

Zipy

Buglab

SwapCode AI

Request Metrics

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