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Highlight
Apache-2.0Web app diagnostics with replay and tracking.
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Overview
Docs - Community (Support & Feedback) - Feature request - Bug report
highlight.io: The open-source, fullstack monitoring platform.
highlight.io is a monitoring tool for the next generation of developers (like you!). Unlike the age-old, outdated tools out there, we aim to build a cohesive, modern and fully-featured monitoring solution, something we wished WE had. And it's all open source :)
At a high level, highlight.io's feature set is:
We strive to make highlight.io as easy to install as a few lines of code in any environment.
Read more about our features, values and mission below, and get started at https://highlight.io today!
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Get started
Hosted highlight.io (free to get started!)
The fastest and most reliable way to get started with highlight.io is signing up for free at app.highlight.io. After making an account, getting started is as easy as installing the client SDK snippet.
Hobby self-hosted
Deploy a hobby instance in one line on Linux with Docker (we recommend at least 8GB of RAM, 4 CPUs, and 64 GB of disk space):
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/highlight/highlight
# or `git submodule update --init --recursive` on git < 2.13
cd docker && ./run-hobby.sh
After a brief frontend load time, the app should be accessible at https://localhost. Use the password set in docker/.env variable ADMIN_PASSWORD with any valid email address.
Good for <10k sessions and <50k errors ingested monthly. See our docs for more info and limitations.
Enterprise self-hosted
See our enterprise self-hosted docs to deploy a scalable, production-ready instance with support from our team.
Features
Session Replay: Understand WHY bugs happen.
- Dom-based High-fidelity Replay: Replay every interaction and dom change that happened in a given browser session (powered by https://github.com/rrweb-io/rrweb)
- Outgoing Network Requests: See all the network requests (and their contents) in a given session to reproduce the data that was sent/received by your frontend -> docs
- Console logs: Analyze the logs printed (
console.error,console.log, etc..) to the console from your frontend -> docs - Embedded Error Monitoring: See the errors associated with a given session to understand what the user was doing leading up to them.
- Session Comments: Comment on errors to communicate with your team on user frustration, bugs, and more! -> docs
- Integrations with your favorite tools -> docs
Error Monitoring: Understand WHAT bugs are happening.
- Customizable Error Grouping: Customize rules for grouping repeated errors -> docs
- Customizable Alerting Rules: Customize how often, and where alerts are sent -> docs
- Embedded Session Replay: See all of the sessions associated with any given error.
- SDK Support: Support for a long (and growing!) list of SDKs.
- Integrations with your favorite tools -> docs
Logs: Dig deeper into what's happening on your server.
- Powerful Search: Search across all your logs, with automatic property collection -> docs
- Log Alerts: Set thresholds for your log alerts, and view them in the alerts dashboard -> docs
- Embedded Session Replay and Errors: See all of the sessions & errors associated to a log.
- SDK Support: Support for a long (and growing!) list of SDKs.
- Integrations with your favorite tools -> docs
Traces: Track the performance of operations on your server.
- Powerful Search: Search across all your traces, with automatic property collection -> docs
- Log Alerts: Set thresholds for your log alerts, and view them in the alerts dashboard -> docs
- Embedded Session Replay, Errors and Logs: See all of the sessions, errors, and logs associated to a trace.
- SDK Support: Support for a long (and growing!) list of SDKs.
- Integrations with your favorite tools -> docs
More?! Metrics? Traces? Merch?
Have an idea for what we should build next? Please share our community or via a Github Issue!
Read a full list of highlight.io features.
SDKs
All of our SDKs for highlight.io can be found in the sdk directory. To get started with these SDKs, we recommend the getting started guide in our docs.
Contributors
 Jay Khatri 💻 📖 |  Vadim Korolik 💻 📖 |  Zane Mayberry 💻 📖 |  Eric Thomas 💻 📖 |  Chris Schmitz 💻 📖 |  Chris Esplin 💻 📖 |  Spencer Amarantides 💻 📖 |
 Abhishek More 💻 |  Aaron 💻 |  Julian Schneider 🎨 |  Cameron Brill 💻 |  Sasha Aptlin 💻 |  Richard Hua 💻 |  Anthony Teo 💻 |
 Nathan Brockway 💻 |  John Pham 💻 |  Lewis Liu 💻 |  Darius 💻 |  George Thayamkery 💻 |  Betty Alagwu 💻 |  Aaron Carver 💻 |
 Nathan R 💻 |  denise 💻 |  Xiaojing Chen 💻 |  Shayne O'Sullivan 💻 |  Nils Gereke 💻 📖 |  Nir Gazit 💻 |  Jayant Keswani 💻 |
 wancup 📖 |  Adam from Buildjet 💻 |  Nick Fiacco 💻 📖 |  Mark Chapman 📖 |  edde746 💻 |  Lucas Lemanowicz 💻 |  Karl Horky 📖 |
 Pedro Saratscheff 💻 |  Grant Mercer 📖 |  Lewis 📖 |  Kalkidan Betre 💻 |  Tolulope Adetula 💻 |  jemiluv8 💻 |  Gergő Móricz 💻 |
Our Mission
Our mission is to support developers like you in shipping with confidence. We do this by giving you the tools you need to uncover, resolve, and prevent issues in your web app.
Our Values
We build in public.
We strive to build in public in every way we can. This means that what we built, what we're building, and what we plan to build is shared with the world.
We build a cohesive product.
People may think that we're building multiple products (session replay, error monitoring, etc..). But we see it as one. Before we build anything new, we prioritize making it operate seemlessly with everything else.
We build for today's developer.
If you're building software, why should you care about grafana or loki or the elk stack? highlight.io is built for developers that want to develop. Leave the monitoring stuff to us 👍.
Read more about our values here.
