| Acquired by | Rackspace |
| Date | 3/13 |
| Website | exceptional.io |
| Blog | blog.exceptional.io |
| @exceptional | |
| Employees | |
| Founded | 2010 |
| Description | Error tracking software for developers |
Exceptional Software is the leading error tracking company in the market. Its products, Exceptional and Airbrake, collect errors and aggregate them so that developers can fix them quickly. Combined, the two have a customer base of over 75000, which include Groupon, Square, and AT&T among others; and handle over 30000 reports per minute.
| Website | airbrake.io |
| Blog | blog.airbrake.io |
| Stage | Live |
Airbrake is ‘the’ error reporting app. Formerly a thoughtbot product, Airbrake was acquired by Exceptional in 2012. This union saw a consolidation of the error collecting market. Airbrake can handle up to 100k requests per minute at peak times and has dev teams relying on it daily.
| Website | exceptional.io |
| Blog | blog.exceptional.io |
| Stage | Live |
| Launch Date | April 2, 2008 |
Launched at RailsConf 2008 in Portland, Exceptional tracks errors in real-time and gathers the info needed to fix them fast. It has gone through 2 major front-end designs and about 5 reworkings of the underlaying architecture. Today it runs on Amazon Web Services and Heroku.