Application errors, in one timeline
A no-friction error inbox. Pipe exceptions, 500s and background-job failures from any language to a single timeline. Sentry-lite for small teams.
The problem
Sentry is the gold standard, until your project doesn't justify its pricing. Self-hosting Sentry is great, until you don't want to operate Postgres + Redis + Snuba + Clickhouse. You end up writing your own try/except + email loop, and missing half the errors.
How Alarum solves it
POST the exception, level, message and stack to Alarum. Filter by service tag, route critical to push, forward the rest to your team channel. You get the 80% of error-tracking value with 5% of the operational overhead.
Integrate in one line
POST the exception and stack from any language. Below: Python. Replace <YOUR_TOKEN> with an ingestion token from your project, then send.
import requests, traceback, socket
ALARUM_TOKEN = "<YOUR_TOKEN>"
def report_exception(exc: Exception, level: str = "error", source: str | None = None):
requests.post(
"https://alarum.me/h",
headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {ALARUM_TOKEN}"},
json={
"level": level,
"title": f"{type(exc).__name__}: {exc}",
"message": traceback.format_exc()[-1800:],
"source": source or socket.gethostname(),
"tags": ["python", "exception"],
},
timeout=2,
)
try:
do_the_work()
except Exception as e:
report_exception(e, level="critical", source="api-worker")
raiseWhy teams pick Alarum for this
Any language, any framework
A single POST. Works from Python, Node, Go, PHP, Ruby, Rust, shell. No SDK to keep up to date.
Per-level routing
Errors push immediately; warns batch into your inbox; info stays out of sight until you search.
Full-text search across stacks
Find every occurrence of an exception type, a stack frame or a service name in seconds.
Forward to on-call
Pipe critical exceptions to a Discord on-call channel while keeping the long tail in Alarum.
Tag by service & env
tags=["service:api", "env:prod"] makes filtering trivial when something explodes across multiple repos.
Flat predictable pricing
No per-seat fees, no per-exception tax. A free tier you can actually ship to production, paid plans priced for indie budgets.
Why not just use X?
Sentry is unbeatable at scale and at funded-startup pricing. Alarum is the right fit when you just need to know when something breaks without paying per-seat, and you don't need source maps or distributed tracing.
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