# AppSignal vs Embrace

| Attribute | AppSignal | Embrace |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 59.3 (72% (medium)) | 57.3 (69% (medium)) |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A cloud-based monitoring platform that tracks application errors, monitors performance metrics, and correlates issues to specific deployments. Provides automatic error grouping, distributed tracing, log search, and custom metrics for developers. It is indexed under Error Tracking Software.","source":"https://www.appsignal.com/","question":"What is AppSignal?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"AppSignal offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $279 per year. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.appsignal.com/","question":"Is AppSignal free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"AppSignal supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.appsignal.com/","question":"What platforms does AppSignal support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for AppSignal, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://www.appsignal.com/","question":"Can AppSignal be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 7 integrations for AppSignal, including Linear, Kubernetes, AWS CloudWatch, Faraday, ROM, Excon and Claude. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.appsignal.com/","question":"What does AppSignal integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR for AppSignal. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as AppSignal not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.appsignal.com/security","question":"What security certifications does AppSignal have?","confidence":0.6}]` | `[{"answer":"Powered by OpenTelemetry, Embrace provides real user monitoring across mobile and web to tie technical performance to end-user impact. It is indexed under Error Tracking Software.","source":"https://embrace.io/","question":"What is Embrace?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Embrace offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $0.80 per session per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://embrace.io/","question":"Is Embrace free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Embrace supports the web, iOS and Android. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://embrace.io/","question":"What platforms does Embrace support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Embrace, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://embrace.io/","question":"Can Embrace be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 3 integrations for Embrace, including Jira, Slack and PagerDuty. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://embrace.io/","question":"What does Embrace integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 and GDPR for Embrace. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Embrace not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://trust.embrace.io","question":"What security certifications does Embrace have?","confidence":0.7}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | AppSignal helps developers monitor and debug web applications by automatically tracking errors, performance metrics, logs, and deployment information in a single unified interface. | Powered by OpenTelemetry, Embrace provides real user monitoring across mobile and web to tie technical performance to end-user impact. |
| features.capabilities | `{"hosting":"cloud","alerting":true,"languages":"Ruby, Elixir, Node.js, JavaScript, Python, Go, Java, PHP, Rust","platforms":"backend","data_scrubbing":true,"error_grouping":true,"release_health":true,"performance_monitoring":true,"issue_tracker_integration":true}` | `{"hosting":"cloud","alerting":true,"languages":"JavaScript, React, React Native, OpenTelemetry SDKs","platforms":"full_stack","error_grouping":true,"session_replay":true,"performance_monitoring":true,"issue_tracker_integration":true}` |
| integrations.count | 10 | 3 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Linear"},{"name":"Kubernetes","native":true,"category":"infrastructure"},{"name":"AWS CloudWatch","native":true,"category":"monitoring"},{"name":"Faraday","native":true},{"name":"ROM","native":true},{"name":"Excon","native":true},{"name":"Claude","native":true,"category":"ai"},{"name":"AWS Lambda","native":true,"category":"infrastructure","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Amazon ECS","native":true,"category":"infrastructure","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Amazon EC2","native":true,"category":"infrastructure","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"AWS Fargate","native":true,"category":"infrastructure","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Amazon RDS","native":true,"category":"infrastructure","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Elixir","native":true},{"name":"Ruby on Rails","native":true},{"name":"Node.js","native":true},{"name":"Grape","native":true}]` | `[{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"PagerDuty"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"NL","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"ios":true,"web":true,"android":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"Free: 50K requests, 1GB logging, 5-day retention","features":["50K requests/month","1GB logging","5-day retention"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Perfect for startups, hobby, or side-projects","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"logging":"1GB/month","requests":"50K/month","retention":"5-day"}},{"free":false,"name":"Paid","summary":"$279/year ($23.25/month billed yearly)","features":["250K requests/month","1GB logging free","Error tracking with backtrace","Performance monitoring","Host monitoring","Uptime monitoring","Metric dashboards","Process monitoring","Anomaly detection","Real-time alerts","Send to issue tracker","Unlimited users","Unlimited teams","Unlimited applications","Unlimited dashboards"],"commitment":"annual","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":279,"period":"year","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Application monitoring with 250K requests/month","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"logging":"1GB/month","requests":"250K/month"}}],"addOns":[{"name":"Long-term log storage","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":89,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"HIPAA Compliance","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":89,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"Free tier with 50K requests. Paid plans from $279/year. Add-ons from $89/month.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.appsignal.com/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-03T21:10:08.614Z","freeTrialDays":30,"startingPrice":{"amount":279,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"FREE","summary":"Free up to 1M sessions/year, 5 users, 3 days retention","features":["User session play-by-play","Errors, exceptions, and crashes","Basic performance monitoring","Basic dashboards and alerting","Mobile: Crash reporting, ANR monitoring, Out of memory monitoring, Webview performance","Web: Core Web Vitals","Performance tracing with OpenTelemetry","Network performance","Error tracking & logging","Exception reporting","Up to 10 alert policies"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"year","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Made for small apps, development or staging environments","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"users":"5","sessions":"1M/year","data_retention":"3 days"}},{"free":false,"name":"PRO","summary":"$0.80 per 1,000 sessions (min $80/month), 14 days retention","features":["All FREE features","Custom dashboards","API access & metrics data forwarding","Role-based access controls","Jira integration","Slack integration","PagerDuty integration","Standard customer support","Metrics forwarding via PromQL API","Spans forwarding via TraceQL API","Custom metrics","Logs: Error logs free, info/warning/system logs $0.50/GB"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"metered","unit":"session","amount":0.8,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Made to give best-in-class performance insights for production apps","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"users":"10","data_retention":"14 days","min_spend_month":"$80"}},{"free":false,"name":"ENTERPRISE","summary":"Custom pricing, unlimited users, 30 days retention, annual contract","features":["All PRO features","Unlimited users","Custom metrics included based on session volume","Events and spans forwarding","Network span forwarding","Event data forwarding","Code owners and telemetry tagging","Workflow automation","Gold-tier customer support","Dedicated CSM with annual contracts","Logs: Error logs free, info/warning/system logs $1.00/GB"],"commitment":"annual","description":"Made to automate workflow across multi-team development projects at scale","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"users":"Unlimited","min_spend":"$80","data_retention":"30 days"}}],"addOns":[{"name":"Synthetic Monitoring (Web only)","components":[{"per":{"qty":1000,"unit":"checks"},"kind":"metered","amount":15,"currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"From $0.80 per 1,000 sessions. Free tier for 1M sessions/year.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://embrace.io/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-03T21:12:26.878Z","startingPrice":{"amount":0.8,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | low |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |
| security.trust_center | - | https://embrace.io/privacy/ |

## Capabilities (Error Tracking Software)

| Capability | AppSignal | Embrace |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Coverage** |  |  |
| Platforms covered | Backend | Full-stack |
| Language / SDK coverage | Ruby, Elixir, Node.js, JavaScript, Python, Go, Java, PHP, Rust | JavaScript, React, React Native, OpenTelemetry SDKs |
| **Core** |  |  |
| Automatic error grouping | ✓ | ✓ |
| Release health / regression tracking | ✓ | - |
| **Enrichment** |  |  |
| Source-map de-minification | - | - |
| Native crash symbolication | - | - |
| PII data scrubbing | ✓ | - |
| **Bundled signals** |  |  |
| Bundled session replay | - | ✓ |
| Bundled performance / APM | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Workflow** |  |  |
| Issue-tracker integration | ✓ | ✓ |
| Alert rules / on-call routing | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud only | Cloud only |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T04:22:58.540Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*