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Sentry Application Monitoring for Next.js

As you could probably tell from the title, we shipped an SDK for Next.js. This means you can capture errors, measure performance, manage…

Better Alerts [as in, far more specific and just generally way better]

A couple of weeks back, we broke sign-ups. And in the most meta fashion, we learned about this because someone here had the foresight to set…

Dogfooding Chronicles: Never Be Content With Your Content (Security Policies)

In this Dogfooding Chronicle, I’ll walk you through how we updated our Content Security Policy using Discover — and how we’re keeping watch…

Establishing the New Normal in Pandemic-Aftertimes

Three Hundred and Eighty-One Three hundred and eighty-one. The number of days it’s been since our Sentry offices shut down, in what we…

No-code AWS Lambda Monitoring

Auto-instrumenting AWS Lambda Monitoring didn’t originate through a focus group or business plan. It started as a hackathon project that…

Great Moments in Application Monitoring

The consequences of poor application performance are both real and terrifying: lost customers, lost trust from your team, and lost…

Measuring Success with Sentry

In the early days of web development, there was one way to measure code: WTFs per minute. It was a metric that could be applied across all…

Supporting Native Android Libraries Loaded From APKs

Like mechanics who restore their own cars or plastic surgeons who self-rhinoplasty, our developers put their skills to interesting uses…

Measuring User Experience with Web Vitals

Top of search for you means top of mind for your customers. And with Google’s upcoming Page Experience update to Web Vitals taking place in…

Silencing Distractions with Review List and Automations

By organizing information and automating mundane tasks, Sentry is able to remove any ambiguity around if an issue should be addressed, by whom, and in what priority order.

Slow and Steady: Converting Sentry’s Entire Frontend to TypeScript

Recently, Sentry converted 100% of its frontend React codebase from JavaScript to TypeScript. This year-long effort spanned over a dozen…

Using Feature Flags in Sentry

From testing in production to running A/B tests, feature flags have a range of uses. At Sentry, one way we use feature flags is to safely…

A Sanity Listicle for Mobile Developers

Before we look to April, let’s recap some of our most notable mobile updates from this past month with a few tips on how to solve what matters faster and a sneak peek of what's coming next

Using Sentry Performance To Make Sentry Performant

Like many companies, Sentry uses feature flags to determine when certain users see certain features. Recently, we decided to switch our…

Performance Monitoring for Android Applications

Android is arguably the most ubiquitous operating system in the world. Whether it’s a tablet, phone, folding phone, computer, TV, or IoT…

Building Dark Mode

Like many companies, we have a Hack Week at Sentry. In 2017, we coded an app which blared entrance music for anyone who stepped foot in our…

Performance Monitoring Support for React Native

March Mobile Madness continues with Performance support for React Native. Our friend, Jenn Mueng shares how Performance supports his mobile…

Issue Detail Performance Improvements

One of Sentry’s most-trafficked pages is our issue details page, as it helps our customers understand the root cause of an error. For those…

With Flutter and Sentry, You Can Put All Your Eggs in One Repo

This month we’re updating several of our mobile SDKs. You might think it’s madness… Mobile March Madness. First up is Flutter. It’s fair to…

3 Ways to Improve JavaScript Applications

In January we brought Release Health to JavaScript. This month we’ve been thinking about the overall experience for JavaScript developers…

Series D: Moving Faster and (Not) Breaking Things

Can Sentaurs become unicorns? Apparently so.

Close the Loop with User Feedback

Everyone’s software crashes. As an engineer, you don’t feel your users’ frustration unless they reach out to customer support, write bad…

Patching A Flood of 404s

In our latest edition of Dogfooding Chronicles, we use Discover to root out the bane of all companies everywhere: the 404 page.

Asking The Right Query With Discover

Successful businesses don’t sort data — they shape it. Discover, Sentry’s query builder, gives form to your event data so you can measure…

How to use Sentry Attachments with Mobile Applications

In a previous life as an Android developer, a customer reported a nasty bug that we didn’t know how to fix. After what felt like countless…

Track Session Data with Sentry for JavaScript

It’s January 2021 and you’ve probably broken five out of six New Year’s Resolutions. I don’t want to be the reason for breaking your last…

A Gem of an Update: Performance Monitoring for Ruby

In order to continuously improve your Ruby application, you need to understand everything your code touches. That means visibility into how…

Sentry Receives SOC 2 Type 2 Certification

No matter your business, keeping customer data secure is critical toward keeping your customer’s trust. With the rise in data breaches (and…

Sentaurs and Celebrations

At 9AM Pacific time, Sentry joined a video call and proceeded to take a journey. Curiosity became enthusiasm, sentimentality, surprise, and finally laughter.

How Slow is Slow?

Slow is the new downtime. What you once feared from a downed website — decreased conversion rates, lower page ranks, abandoned carts — now…

Support for Database Performance Monitoring in Node

Performance monitoring is great because it lets you see whether your application is fast or slow, and which parts need speeding up. For Node…

Investing in the Future of Frontend

Why we’re investing in the Future Of Frontend Nearly a decade ago, Marc Andreesen uttered the infamous quote “software is eating the world…

Investigating Performance Regressions with Trends

To us, dogfooding means using Sentry to improve Sentry. Here in this article, you’ll see how we used Performance to improve our search…

Sentry Fall Semester: Web Vitals 101

To improve front-end performance in your application, it’s important to understand what kind of problems users are experiencing. They may be…

Notice of (Internet) Address Change

As part of continuing projects to increase the reliability of sentry.io, the IP addresses associated with the service will be changing soon…

Verifying Large Refactors in Production with Sentry

Sentry is excellent at capturing runtime errors in your applications. With the recent additions of performance monitoring and release health…

Sentry for Spring Boot & Logback

While Spring Boot provides everything developers need to build applications, it leaves operational aspects of debugging issues to the…

Debug errors in Lambda functions

Troubleshooting production issues in Lambda environments is often challenging. CloudWatch requires developers to comb through logs, search…

Get Sentry Alerts in Microsoft Teams

Microsoft wanted to give teams more ways to be well… a team. So they built Microsoft Teams, a communication platform for instant messaging…

Escalate Critical Issues with PagerDuty and Sentry

Connecting Sentry and PagerDuty is a great way to make sure important issues don’t get stuck in backlog purgatory. But sometimes there’s a…

Issue Tracking with Linear and Sentry

This integration was built on the Sentry Integration Platform — a new way for developers to build workflows on top of Sentry. Interested in…

Finding and Fixing Django N+1 Problems

The Django Python framework allows people to build websites extremely fast. One of its best features is the Object-relational mapper (ORM…

The Great Irony of Serverless Computing

Serverless is great for so many reasons. Scale, speed to deployment, service management, etc. We can't say the same about debugging Serverless issues till now. Learn about how our latest updates help you resolve Serverless issues in minutes.

Continuous Improvement in Native

Track crash-free sessions, crash-free users, version adoption, and the overall health of each release of your native applications with Sentry.

The Pain of Debugging WebAssembly

WASM can do some awesome things. But what’s not awesome? Debugging with WASM.

Enable Suspect Commits, Unminify JS, and Track Releases with Vercel and Sentry

Calling all JavaScript developers. Read all about our newest integration with Vercel that automatically generates releases, configures suspect commits, and uploads source maps for you.

Asynchronous CSV Exports with Discover

We made it easier for you to access the data you've been itching to get your hands on. With Asynchronous CSV Exports, you can define what you need and we'll notify you when it's ready to download.

Automate Release Management with the Sentry Release GitHub Action

Check out our new and official GitHub Action.

Go-Getting Lazy-Loading

In our latest edition of the Dogfooding Chronicles, we use Performance to motivate lazy-loading user-facing data.

API Authentication Bypass

On July 20th a customer informed us of an authentication bypass vulnerability in our API. In the end, we found no evidence of any customer data exposure. But as always, there are a few lessons learned. Read more here.

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