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Error monitoring for apps built with AI, compared

Every monitoring tool catches errors. They differ in who they are written for: an engineer reading stack traces, a product team in an analytics suite, or someone who built the app with AI and needs to know what broke and how to get it fixed. We make Vigilia, so weigh this page knowing that. Every other tool is described as its own documentation described it in October 2026.

At a glance

Written forFreeUptimeMCP
SentryEngineering teamsDeveloper plan: 1 user, 5,000 errors, 50 replays1 monitor on every planYes
PostHogProduct teams already using its analytics100,000 exceptions a month—Yes
Lovable project monitoringLovable projects (in beta)On Pro, Business and Enterprise workspaces; each run uses credits——
VigiliaPeople who build with AI, developers or not1 app, 10 AI diagnoses a month (known errors are free)Every 5 min free, every minute paidYes

A dash means the tool’s own documentation doesn’t mention it. Prices and limits change; each vendor’s pricing page is the final word.

Sentry

The standard for engineering teams, and deep: SDKs for nearly every language and platform including mobile, performance tracing, profiling, session replay, private source maps and hundreds of integrations. Its free Developer plan covers one user and 5,000 errors; the Team plan adds users and integrations. Seer, its AI debugging, is a paid add-on.

Choose it if your team reads stack traces and wants the most complete debugging tool. It shows you exactly what happened in the code; it assumes you know what to do next.

PostHog

An all-in-one product suite (analytics, session replay, feature flags, experiments) with error tracking built in. Each issue comes with the affected user’s session replay. The first 100,000 exceptions a month are free.

Choose it if you already use PostHog for analytics and want errors in the same place.

Lovable’s project monitoring

Built into Lovable and in beta. On a schedule, by default daily at 6:00 if the project was edited since the last check, Lovable reviews the code and recent errors from visitors, and reports findings in the editor and by email to the project owner, with a “Try to fix” button. Each completed run uses credits. Its docs note that it doesn’t replace testing and can flag working behaviour as broken.

Choose it if your app is on Lovable and a daily review inside the editor suits you. Its docs don’t mention uptime checks, and it covers Lovable projects only. Vigilia and Lovable’s monitoring, side by side.

Vigilia

Written for people who build with AI. One script tag watches errors, failed and slow requests, dead buttons and downtime from every visitor. Each new problem arrives in seconds, in plain language: what broke, who it affects, and a fix prompt written for the tool you build with (Lovable, Bolt, v0, Cursor, Claude Code). Your AI can read it directly over MCP. When you mark it fixed, Vigilia watches real visitors and confirms the fix held, or tells you it came back. Uptime checks, a public status page, and checks for leaked keys and expiring certificates come with it. The stack trace is always one click away.

What it doesn’t do: mobile app SDKs, performance tracing, profiling or session replay. It covers browser apps and JavaScript backends, and takes errors from anything already on OpenTelemetry.

Choose it if you want to know when something breaks, in words you can act on, and have your AI fix it.

Using more than one

They don’t get in each other’s way. A common split: Sentry for the engineers debugging code, Vigilia for everyone who needs to know what broke and whether the fix worked. On the Team plan, Vigilia can read your Sentry issues and post a plain explanation and a fix prompt back on each one. More on Vigilia and Sentry.

Know before your users tell you

Vigilia watches your live app, explains what breaks in plain language, hands your AI the fix, and confirms it held with real visitors. One app is free.

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Questions

What is the best error monitoring for an app built with Lovable or Bolt?

It depends on who reads the alerts. If you don’t read stack traces, choose a tool that explains errors in plain language and gives your builder a fix, such as Vigilia. If you have engineers, Sentry is the most complete debugging tool. If you already use PostHog for analytics, its error tracking keeps everything in one place.

Do I need error monitoring if my app is small?

If real people use it, yes: most people who hit an error don’t report it, they leave. A free tier from any of these tools is enough to start.