# AppSignal vs Highlight.io

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** AppSignal

| Attribute | AppSignal | Highlight.io |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 59.3 (72% (medium)) | 46.6 (74% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 3 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 5 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 9,382 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | - | 1,198 |
| 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":"A comprehensive observability platform that captures session replays, error tracking, logs, and distributed traces across your web applications, with both cloud and self-hosted deployment options. It is indexed under Error Tracking Software.","source":"https://www.highlight.io/pricing","question":"What is Highlight.io?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Highlight.io is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the Apache-2.0 licence. A commercial or hosted edition starts at $50 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://www.highlight.io/pricing","question":"Is Highlight.io free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Highlight.io. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.highlight.io/pricing","question":"What platforms does Highlight.io support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Highlight.io can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.highlight.io/pricing","question":"Can Highlight.io be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 19 integrations for Highlight.io, including Amplitude, ClickUp, Discord, Electron, Front, GitHub, Grafana and Height, plus 11 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.highlight.io/pricing","question":"What does Highlight.io integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 and GDPR for Highlight.io. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Highlight.io not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.highlight.io","question":"What security certifications does Highlight.io have?","confidence":0.48},{"answer":"Yes. Highlight.io is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://pypi.org/pypi/highlight-io/json","question":"Is Highlight.io open source?","confidence":0.9},{"answer":"Highlight.io is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://www.highlight.io/pricing","question":"Where is Highlight.io available?","confidence":0.5}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":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. | A monitoring platform that helps developers understand what bugs are happening and why through error monitoring, session replay, logging, and distributed tracing capabilities. |
| 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":"both","alerting":true,"languages":"JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Rust, Java, PHP, C# .NET, Elixir, React","platforms":"full_stack","source_maps":true,"data_scrubbing":true,"error_grouping":true,"session_replay":true,"performance_monitoring":true,"issue_tracker_integration":true}` |
| integrations.count | 10 | 19 |
| 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":"Amplitude"},{"name":"ClickUp"},{"name":"Discord"},{"name":"Electron"},{"name":"Front"},{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"Grafana"},{"name":"Height"},{"name":"Intercom"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"LaunchDarkly"},{"name":"Linear"},{"name":"Mixpanel"},{"name":"Nuxt"},{"name":"Pendo"},{"name":"Segment"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Vercel"},{"name":"WordPress"},{"name":"Firebase"},{"name":"Stripe"}]` |
| language.primary | - | TypeScript |
| license.spdx | - | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"NL","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":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":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","includedLimits":{"seats":"15"}}],"freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.highlight.io/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-09-10T21:01:42.433Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | low |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | - | 11 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.5.6","date":"2025-08-08T15:42:36Z","type":"stable","version":"docker-v0.5.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.5.5","date":"2025-06-23T05:16:13Z","type":"stable","version":"docker-v0.5.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.5.4","date":"2025-02-12T22:59:28Z","type":"stable","version":"docker-v0.5.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.5.3","date":"2025-02-12T15:41:32Z","type":"stable","version":"docker-v0.5.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.5.2","date":"2025-02-06T16:48:56Z","type":"stable","version":"docker-v0.5.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.5.1","date":"2025-01-30T12:38:34Z","type":"stable","version":"docker-v0.5.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.5.0","date":"2025-01-24T17:07:26Z","type":"stable","version":"docker-v0.5.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.4.10","date":"2025-01-13T14:30:05Z","type":"stable","version":"docker-v0.4.10"},{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.4.9","date":"2024-12-16T22:47:53Z","type":"stable","version":"docker-v0.4.9"},{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.4.8.a","date":"2024-11-27T01:46:21Z","type":"stable","version":"docker-v0.4.8.a"},{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.4.8","date":"2024-11-27T00:38:57Z","type":"stable","version":"docker-v0.4.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.4.7","date":"2024-11-15T18:15:51Z","type":"stable","version":"docker-v0.4.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.4.6","date":"2024-09-26T19:15:11Z","type":"stable","version":"docker-v0.4.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.4.5","date":"2024-09-07T16:51:23Z","type":"stable","version":"docker-v0.4.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.4.4","date":"2024-08-09T21:57:12Z","type":"stable","version":"docker-v0.4.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.4.3","date":"2024-08-01T23:42:10Z","type":"stable","version":"docker-v0.4.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.4.2","date":"2024-07-11T18:00:36Z","type":"stable","version":"docker-v0.4.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.4.1","date":"2024-07-11T16:23:00Z","type":"stable","version":"docker-v0.4.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.4.2-preview","date":"2024-07-11T17:26:31Z","type":"prerelease","version":"docker-v0.4.2-preview"},{"url":"https://github.com/highlight/highlight/releases/tag/docker-v0.4.0","date":"2024-07-02T01:20:20Z","type":"stable","version":"docker-v0.4.0"}]` |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | - | 6.5 |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=highlight-io&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Error Tracking Software)

| Capability | AppSignal | Highlight.io |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Coverage** |  |  |
| Platforms covered | Backend | Full-stack |
| Language / SDK coverage | Ruby, Elixir, Node.js, JavaScript, Python, Go, Java, PHP, Rust | JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Rust, Java, PHP, C# .NET, Elixir, React |
| **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 + self-hosted |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T22:12:55.140Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*