MVP before you have an ops team

Updated 1 October 2026 · BugsRadar team

Launch week. Everything is urgent, the ops team is the two of you, and the monitoring stack is on the list under "later". The thing that bites first is not uptime; it is the error that happened to the first paying customer and that nobody saw until the refund request.

Ten minutes, before launch

Create a project, add the founders' Telegram group or Discord channel, add the package for .NET, Node.js or Python, send a test error. From then on every new error of the product arrives in the chat as it happens, with the stack trace, and repeats are counted in the same message. That is the whole setup; there is no agent, no sidecar and no dashboard to learn.

Launch day doesn't cost extra

There are no event quotas on any plan, Free included. If the launch goes well and something breaks under load, the crash loop is one message with a count, not a bill. Pro is $5 a month when you have more than two projects; Business, with Slack, Microsoft Teams and an organization with roles, is coming for the day you have a team. See Pricing.

Customer data stays with you

Stack traces and log properties often carry an email address or an order id. BugsRadar keeps none of it: an event stays in memory until it is delivered to your chat and is then gone. There is no third-party archive of your customers' data to explain in a security questionnaire later. See Security and data.

What changes as you grow

• More projects: Pro, unlimited projects and channels, one price.
• More noise: rules route Critical to a phone and staging to its own channel.
• More people: add them to the chat today; team accounts and work channels come with Business.
• History and investigation: an error tracker, when you have someone whose job it is to open it. BugsRadar stays for the first minute: see Alerts in chat instead of a dashboard.

What you still need

An uptime check, because BugsRadar only hears from an app that is running; the two answer different questions. Logs, monitoring, alerts sorts them out in ten minutes.

Where to go next

Get started is the ten minutes. The first hour after a deploy is for every launch after this one.