Operator tier in Gotcha 0.4.12: hand monitoring to the team without handing out admin
What's new in Gotcha 0.4.12: operator permissions for project teams, monitor header encryption, opaque status-page addresses and ingest reliability fixes.
Blog
Releases and technical notes about Gotcha.
Monitoring a Tilda site: what you can collect without server access
How to connect self-hosted Gotcha to a Tilda site: JavaScript errors and Web Vitals via an HTML block, uptime and SSL from the outside, alerts. An honest look at what a SaaS site builder makes impossible.
Connecting Gotcha to MODX: transport packages, events and code in the database
How to connect self-hosted Gotcha to a MODX Revolution 3 site with your own plugin: errors via a handler chain, transactions named by template, Web Vitals. Building the transport package and the full code included.
Connecting Gotcha to OpenCart: errors, routes and a cardinality trap
How to connect self-hosted Gotcha to an OpenCart 4 store with your own extension: PHP errors via a handler chain, transactions named by route, Web Vitals. Full code and a prebuilt archive included.
Connecting Gotcha to Drupal: errors through a logger channel, transactions by route
How to connect self-hosted Gotcha to a Drupal 10/11 site with your own module: errors through the stock PSR-3 logger channel, transactions named by route, Web Vitals. Full module code and a prebuilt archive included.
Connecting Gotcha to WordPress: errors, performance and Web Vitals
How to connect self-hosted Gotcha to a WordPress site with your own plugin: PHP errors (fatals included), response time per page type, JavaScript errors and Web Vitals. Full plugin code and a prebuilt zip included.
Connecting Gotcha to Joomla: errors, performance and site metrics
How to connect self-hosted Gotcha to a Joomla 4, 5 or 6 site with a single system plugin: PHP and JS errors, response time per component, Web Vitals, uptime, alerts and business metrics over OTLP. Full plugin code and a prebuilt zip included.
Connecting Gotcha to 1C-Bitrix: errors, performance and Web Vitals
How to connect self-hosted Gotcha to a 1C-Bitrix site with your own module: PHP errors through the core's ExceptionHandlerLog, response time per script, Web Vitals. Full module code and a prebuilt archive included.
Connecting Gotcha to Symfony: separate backend and frontend
How to connect self-hosted Gotcha to an app with a Symfony backend and a separate frontend that talk over an API and live on different domains: errors, tracing, Web Vitals, uptime and alerts. Everything via env; moving to another instance is one variable change.
Observability in one Go binary: how Gotcha is built
Gotcha's architecture: one Go binary over PostgreSQL and ClickHouse, no Kafka and no Redis. A --mode flag splits the process into ingest/web/uptime/probe or runs everything at once.
How to migrate from Sentry to self-hosted Gotcha
A step-by-step move from Sentry to self-hosted Gotcha: stand up an instance, swap the DSN in the same official Sentry SDK, and verify the first event. No application code changes.
Meet Gotcha
What Gotcha is, why it exists, and how it's built.