Raygun's 2024 in review: New features that empower developers

By Rowan Tandy | Posted Jan 8, 2025 | 6 min. (1174 words)

As 2024 wraps up, we’re taking a moment to look back at the updates and tools we launched to make your life as a developer and Raygun user easier. This year, we focused on enhancing how you monitor errors, track performance, and optimize user experiences. Here’s a breakdown of the key features we shipped in 2024.

What’s in this article

Crash Reporting
Real User Monitoring
- Support for new Core Web Vitals metric: Interaction to Next Paint
- Other improvements
Platform and API updates
Community
Most read blog posts from 2024
What’s Next?

Crash Reporting

AI Error Resolution: Faster fixes, smarter debugging

One of our biggest highlights this year was launching AI Error Resolution. Powered by LLMs like ChatGPT, this award-winning feature analyzes errors and automatically suggests fixes, cutting down debugging time from hours to minutes.

This product is more than a time-saver for developers—it’s a new way to approach error handling. Offering context-aware solutions helps you resolve issues faster and with greater accuracy. This feature has been especially popular among .NET developers, supporting Aspire and other frameworks.

Crash Reporting for Shopify: Fix checkout issues faster

In 2024, we launched Crash Reporting for Shopify, giving e-commerce teams insight into checkout flows and cart abandonment problems. With integrations for Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Webhooks, you can act on errors as they happen—no bug reports from customers are required.

Expanded framework support

We’ve extended Raygun’s capabilities and frameworks:

Raygun4Net update: Support for Portable PDBs and offline error storage makes error tracking more precise and reliable—even when devices are offline.
Raygun for .NET Blazor: Monitor Blazor apps with tailored .NET support and a new provider.
Enhanced Support for .NET MAUI: Better Crash Reporting and RUM for cross-platform mobile apps with features such as breadcrumbs that help you track the sequence of events that lead to an error.
Raygun4Aspire: A new provider with a local web app to track errors in your development environment.

Other improvements

We also made debugging with Crash Reporting more efficient:

Reverse stack trace: View stack traces in reverse order to match your workflow.
Copy stack trace button: Quickly share stack traces for easier collaboration.
Microsoft ILogger integration: A seamless way to connect with Microsoft’s .NET logging framework.

Real User Monitoring

Support for new Core Web Vitals metric: Interaction to Next Paint

In March 2024, we updated Core Web Vitals metrics in Raygun Real User Monitoring (RUM) to align with Google’s latest standards. We added Interaction to Next Paint (INP), which goes beyond First Input Delay (FID) by measuring page responsiveness across the entire user experience—not just the first interaction. With this update, Raygun helps you keep your site fast and responsive and your customers happy.

Other improvements

To help you fine-tune website performance, we rolled out several updates to our Real User Monitoring (RUM) suite:

Host filter: Analyze performance data by domain to optimize multi-site applications.
Path segment URL tester: Refine your URL grouping for more accurate performance insights.

Platform and API updates

We focused on expanding the platform’s flexibility with new integrations and tools:

Two-Way Jira sync: Keep your Jira issues and Raygun data perfectly in sync.
SAML SSO with auto-provisioning: Enterprise-grade security and user management.
New API endpoints: These endpoints allow you to easily monitor website performance and CWVs, manage deployments, retrieve customer and session data, source maps, and error comments.
New NOT operators for Raygun Alerting: Set up alerts that trigger when events do not match criteria.
Split your projects in Azure DevOps: Keep your source code and work items in different projects while fully using Raygun’s Azure DevOps integration.

Community

Welcoming Scott Hanselman to the Raygun Board of Directors

One of the year’s highlights was welcoming industry veteran Scott Hanselman to the Raygun Board of Directors. Scott’s incredible depth of experience—spanning software development, community building, and thought leadership—makes him a perfect fit for shaping Raygun’s future. Scott’s perspective is already enriching our approach, bringing fresh insights into product development and market strategy. His passion for delighting customers aligns perfectly with our vision to empower teams with better tools and insights.

12 Days of Christmas initiative

Raygun finished 2024 with a bang, rolling out bug fixes and new features for 12 days in a row, improving Crash Reporting, Real User Monitoring, and the Raygun platform.

Founder & Friends podcast highlights

This year on Founder & Friends, Raygun CEO John-Daniel (JD) Trask welcomed an incredible group of guests, including Francois Tanguay and Sasha Krsmanovic from Uno Platform, Matthew Richardson from Velocity Engineering, Microsoft’s James Montemagno, Birol Yildiz of ilert, Patrick Smacchia of NDepend, and David Horowitz from Vector Solutions.

Our conversations covered a range of topics, from the evolution of .NET and mobile development to improving incident response, efficient engineering practices, and maintaining code quality. Each episode brought fresh insights and practical takeaways for navigating the challenges of modern software development.

Check out our full podcast episodes on youtube:

Collaborations

This year, several organizations made it easier to integrate Raygun into their platforms:

Appwrite introduced a provider for Raygun integrations into Appwrite projects, letting their customers enable Raygun with minimal setup.
Scalpel Software and Magenizr developed their own Raygun clients (Elixir and Magento), offering their users a straightforward way to enable Raygun on their systems.
Silverstripe enhanced their platform by making Raygun available to their managed clients and users of their open-source library.
A developer from the Spring Boot community built a custom integration to streamline Raygun adoption within their organization.

We were thrilled to support these initiatives that empower more teams to use Raygun’s tools.

Most read blog posts from 2024

JavaScript unit testing frameworks in 2024: A comparison: A breakdown of 11 popular JavaScript unit testing frameworks—Jest, Mocha, Jasmine, and more. This post highlights their features, pros, and cons to help developers pick the right tool for their projects.
How to measure and improve Node.js performance: A practical guide for boosting Node.js app performance. From using Node’s profiler and caching strategies to asynchronous programming and high-performance coding examples, it’s packed with tips. It also shows how APM tools can make monitoring and profiling easier.
Top 6 JavaScript errors and how developers can fix them: This post tackles common JavaScript errors like SyntaxError and TypeError. It explains what causes them, how to debug effectively, and how to keep them out of your code for good.