Rollbar and ilert: Real-time error monitoring meets smart incident response
We’re excited to share that Rollbar is now part of the ilert integration catalog! This new technical partnership allows software teams to detect application errors in real time with Rollbar and instantly respond using ilert’s powerful alerting and incident management features.
What is Rollbar?
Rollbar is a comprehensive, real-time error monitoring and debugging platform designed to help development teams detect, diagnose, and resolve issues faster—before they impact users. By providing deep visibility into application errors across the entire software lifecycle, Rollbar empowers teams to ship higher-quality code with greater confidence. With clients like CircleCI, Twilio, Babbel, and Salesforce, Rollbar is trusted by teams that prioritize reliability and seamless user experience.
At its core, Rollbar gives you deep visibility into your application’s health by capturing errors as they happen. Whether it's a backend exception or a frontend crash, Rollbar collects detailed metadata—including stack traces, request parameters, and user data—so developers can fix bugs quickly and confidently.
Key highlights of Rollbar:
- Real-time monitoring: Instantly detect and visualize errors.
- Intelligent grouping: Reduce noise using machine learning-based error clustering.
- Comprehensive context: Investigate errors with full context, from local variables to affected users.
- Enterprise-ready: Scales with your infrastructure and offers strong security and integrations.
How you can benefit from the Rollbar and ilert integration
With this new integration, Rollbar alerts can now trigger events in ilert automatically—enabling rapid, targeted incident response across your engineering and SRE teams.
Here’s how your team benefits:
- Deploy with confidence: Get notified instantly when a new deployment introduces an error. You can roll back quickly or fix forward without waiting for user complaints.
- Bridge the gap between Dev and Ops: SREs and developers can collaborate more efficiently, as ilert routes Rollbar alerts to the right on-call engineer using your preferred notification channels—phone, SMS, push, Microsoft Teams, and more.
- Centralized approach for faster root cause analysis: ilert enables teams to receive alerts from various alert sources, which helps to expedite root cause analysis. ilert as a central dispatcher can correlate Rollbar alerts with alerts from other sources to help teams resolve incidents faster.
How to Connect Rollbar and ilert
Getting started is easy. To integrate Rollbar with ilert, follow our step-by-step guide. It takes just a few minutes to:
- Create an alert source in ilert.
- Generate an endpoint URL.
- Add the webhook in your Rollbar settings.
Once connected, Rollbar will send error notifications to ilert, where you can manage them using your existing on-call schedules, escalation policies, and alerting preferences.
