Vinktar and GlitchTip

Vinktar and GlitchTip, both on the Sentry SDK

Both read the errors your Sentry SDK already sends, so moving between them is a DSN change. GlitchTip is open source and yours to run. Vinktar adds what each user did before the error, product analytics on the same users, and an agent that can read it all.

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Free up to 50,000 errors a month. No card.

.env+1 −1
-SENTRY_DSN=https://abc123@glitchtip.harrowby.io/4
+SENTRY_DSN=https://vnk_pk_8f2c…@in.vinktar.com/12

Connect web

Next.js, keeping the Sentry SDK

  1. Step 1, done: The Sentry SDK points at Vinktar
    SENTRY_DSN changed, nothing else
  2. Step 2, done: First error arrived
    A test exception from production
  3. Step 3, done: Release and environment tagged
    web@2.36.0, production
  4. Step 4: Waiting for a signed-in user
    Set the user id so errors join to the people they hit

Fair to say

Where GlitchTip is the better choice

Open source, and yours to run

GlitchTip is open source, and its self-hosted version runs on your own server. Vinktar is hosted only, in Helsinki.

Uptime, performance and logs

GlitchTip pings your site, watches scheduled jobs, and keeps performance data and logs beside your errors. Vinktar does none of those.

Less per error at high volume

GlitchTip Medium is $50 a month for up to 500,000 events. At 500,000 errors Vinktar is Pro, $99.

What Vinktar does

Errors, what led to them, and an agent that can read both

01 · Switch

Keep the SDK, change the DSN

Vinktar reads what the Sentry SDKs send, the same way GlitchTip does. Point the DSN at Vinktar, deploy, and errors arrive grouped into issues with their release and environment.

How to switch a Sentry SDK

Connect api

Laravel, keeping the Sentry SDK

  1. Step 1, done: The Sentry SDK points at Vinktar
    SENTRY_LARAVEL_DSN changed, nothing else
  2. Step 2, done: First error arrived
    A test exception from production
  3. Step 3, done: Release and environment tagged
    api@4.12.0, production
  4. Step 4: Waiting for a signed-in user
    Set the user id so errors join to the people they hit

02 · Understand

See what happened before the crash

Every error keeps the half hour before it: the clicks, the requests and the events you track, from the same user.

Open an issue in the live demo

Events before· 4

What this session sent in the 30 minutes before, newest firstOpen in Explore
  1. 12s beforereport_viewed/app/reports/revenue
  2. 1m 35s beforesearch_performed/app/reports
  3. 3m 10s beforedashboard_viewed/app/dashboards
  4. 4m 20s beforelog_in/login

03 · Measure

Product analytics on the same users

Trends, funnels, retention and SQL over the people your errors come from, with their own budget so a bad day of errors never eats your analytics.

Open a board in the live demo

Activation

Funnel
Signed up130
Started onboarding129−1%
Finished onboarding86−33%
Subscribed4−95%
Overall conversion 3% of users

04 · Fix

Your coding agent reads it too

Connect Claude Code, Cursor or Codex over MCP. It reads the issue, the stack trace and what the user did, and anything a browser sent reaches it fenced as data.

Connect your agent
Claude Code~/harrowby/api

> Did anything new break in the API today?

vinktar - list_issues (MCP)(project: "api", sort: "first_seen")

1 regressed: Deadlock in SyncInvoices, 23 events

The invoice sync deadlock is back since api@4.12.0. It was resolved nine days ago.

>Did anything new break in the API today?

Price

The same month at each

Hosted GlitchTip counts events, and each uptime check is one. Vinktar counts errors and product events on separate budgets.

Errors a monthGlitchTip hostedVinktar
50,000Small, $15 (up to 100,000 events)Free, $0
150,000Medium, $50 (up to 500,000 events)Starter, $29
500,000Medium, $50 (up to 500,000 events)Pro, $99

GlitchTip’s plans from glitchtip.com/pricing, read 20 October 2026, monthly billing. Vinktar’s from its plan catalogue.

Vinktar’s price

One flat price a month

Errors and product events have their own budgets. Over the plan, nothing is charged: you get an email, and ingest pauses at twice the plan until the month turns or you upgrade.

Free

$0a month

Errors
50,000
Events
1,000,000
History
30 days

Starter

$29a month

Errors
150,000
Events
3,000,000
History
1 year

Pro

$99a month

Errors
500,000
Events
5,000,000
History
1 year

Seats and projects are unlimited on every plan. See pricing or price your month.

Switching

Move an app off GlitchTip

  1. 1

    Create a project

    Sign up free, no card. The project’s Connect page shows its DSN.
  2. 2

    Change the DSN

    Replace GlitchTip’s address with Vinktar’s. Nothing else in your code changes.
    # was: SENTRY_DSN=https://abc123@glitchtip.harrowby.io/4
SENTRY_DSN=https://vnk_pk_YOUR_KEY@in.vinktar.com/YOUR_PROJECT_ID
  3. 3

    Deploy and send a test error

    The error shows on the project’s Errors page within a few seconds, with its release and environment.
  4. 4

    Upload source maps with the CLI

    Source maps do not travel over the DSN. Upload them with @vinktarhq/cli under the release your SDK reports.
    npx @vinktarhq/cli sourcemaps upload ./dist --release web@2.36.0

Questions

What people ask first

Does Vinktar take the same SDK as GlitchTip?
Yes. Both read the Sentry SDKs. Change the DSN and deploy. Pointing it back undoes the move.
What moves when I switch?
Errors and captured messages. Transactions, sessions, replays and profiles are accepted and dropped.
Can I run Vinktar myself?
No. Vinktar is hosted only, in Helsinki, Finland. If you need to run it yourself, GlitchTip is the better fit.
Does Vinktar check whether my site is up?
No. Vinktar tracks errors and product events. Keep an uptime checker beside it.

Keep the SDK. See what led to the crash.

Change the DSN and your errors arrive with the half hour before them.

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