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Summary

Rollbar has introduced a new feature aimed at enhancing the signal-to-noise ratio in error monitoring, making it easier for users to manage and reduce noise in real-time error and crash reporting. This feature incorporates several noise reduction mechanisms, including automatic default grouping of recurring errors and custom grouping rules, which allow similar errors to be treated as a single item in the feed. With the new Grouping Suggestions, Rollbar suggests custom fingerprint rules when users manually merge errors, enabling future similar errors to be automatically grouped without additional manual intervention. The feature simplifies the process by allowing users to start with default settings, manually merge errors, and accept grouping suggestions to incrementally reduce noise. Rollbar emphasizes the importance of proactive error monitoring to improve software release quality and offers its service for free to encourage adoption.