Looking for Embrace alternatives?
Embrace is a mobile and web observability platform that offers crash reporting, ANR tracking, network monitoring and performance traces.
Measure is a mobile first, open source Embrace alternative.
Full session context on every issue
Embrace and Measure both attach a full session view to every crash, ANR and error and capture it automatically.
Measure records gestures, navigation, network calls, lifecycle events and custom spans into a full Session Timeline on every issue.
The key difference is transparency. Measure is open source, the platform that stores your user data is transparent, and you never have to send your data to a proprietary, locked platform.
Adaptive capture, not all-or-nothing
Measure and Embrace both allow you to capture full session data without sampling. Where they differ is control: Embrace captures everything and bills per session, so full context means paying for every session your app generates which can be significant at scale.
Measure captures full session context, but with Adaptive Capture you can tune what you collect remotely, without shipping an app update.
Dial up on a new release, dial down to cut cost or noise. You decide how much you collect, and change it whenever you need to.
Fully open source
Embrace open sources its SDKs but the backend and dashboard that ingest, store and surface your data are locked behind a proprietary platform with no auditability.
Measure is fully open source. Run the entire stack yourself, audit the pipeline, keep your data on your own infrastructure if you choose, and if something can be done better, send a pull request.
Simple, predictable pricing
Embrace charges per session which means a session with barely any activity matters the same as one with lots of interactions.
Measure has a single, transparent price based on how much data you actually ingest which is a much more practical metric as it relates directly to usage of the platform without meaningless sessions costing more than they need to. With Adaptive Capture you can also tune collection anytime to keep costs in check.
Built for mobile, by mobile devs
Embrace supports mobile and web monitoring. Mobile is one of the supported platforms, and the defaults, platform decisions, dashboards and product roadmap are shaped by the whole platform rather than by the needs of mobile devs alone.
Measure is mobile first and focused on mobile developers. Crashes & ANRs, App Health, Performance Traces, Network Performance, Bug Reports and User Journeys are all shaped only by how mobile apps break in production.
Mobile is not a part of our product, it is the whole product.
Measure vs Embrace
| Capability | Measure | Embrace |
|---|---|---|
| Crash reporting with full session timelines | ||
| ANR detection with full session timelines | ||
| Performance traces | ||
| Network monitoring | ||
| User journeys | ||
| In-app bug reports | ||
| Session timeline on every issue | ||
| Dynamic Sampling with Adaptive Capture | Always-on full capture | |
| Auto-captured context | Gestures, navigation, network, lifecycle | Taps, views, network, lifecycle |
| Pricing | Simple pricing based on data usage | Per session |
| Open Source | Apache 2.0 (OSI open source) | SDKs only |
| Self-hostable | ||
| Public roadmap & issue tracker | SDK repos only | |
| Mobile focus | Mobile and Web |