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Monitoring Performance and Errors in a Django Application with Sentry

In this tutorial, we’ll show how to add Sentry to a Django application so you can track and resolve any errors or performance issues occurring while your application is in production.

A Developer’s Take On Solving Hard-to-Replicate Performance Problems In-Production

"Besides single event investigations, Sentry is very useful to get a general overview of how our app is performing from dev to QA to production and we use dashboards to make sure that we’re always up to date on how performance is looking across the frontend, the backend, and our evaluation service."

Exception Handling in Java (with Real Examples)

This article discusses the basics of exception handling in Java and how Sentry can help make exception handling simple and more powerful.

Details of the Sentry outage on May 6th, 2022

On May 6th, 2022 between 1:30 AM PDT and 12:17 PM PDT, Sentry experienced a large-scale incident which resulted in the majority of our…

A CTOs Perspective on How To Scale With Sentry SaaS

Speeding up the time it takes to resolve critical issues affecting user experience and saving time that could be better spent building awesome products.

Improve Performance in your iOS Applications - Part 2

The performance of your iOS app is crucial when building and publishing it for any number of users. Your users expect it to be delightful…

Unity Tutorial: Developing Your First Unity Game - Part 2

In part 2 of our Unity game development series, we walk through adding the falling effect, how to instantiate several prefabs in random places, & how to make a score counter (and display it).

Workflow 2.0

This is a conversation we had with our Engineering, Product, and Design (EPD) organization. We are publishing it as we believe it’s…

A Pound of Cure - Why Sentry Matters

Benjamin Franklin was a smart dude. Among the many wonderful things he produced was an eternal bit of wisdom - an ounce of prevention is…

An Engineering Manager’s Tips for Scaling High-Velocity Teams

Increasing developer autonomy, improving team health and equipping individuals with the tools to succeed at scale.

4 Mobile Vitals to Keep a Pulse on Your Flutter Applications

Flutter is one of the fastest-growing open source cross-platform development frameworks. The likes of BMW, Google Pay, Tencent, and iRobot…

Sentry’s Android Gradle Plugin Updated with Room Support and More

Monitoring performance is a critical part of software development. We just released version 3.0.0 of our Sentry Android Gradle plugin, which…

Troubleshooting Spring Boot applications with Sentry

In this article, we walk through improvements we've made to the development experience in our Java SDK with several features for error reporting and performance monitoring, with a dedicated integration for Spring MVC.

How to Surface Relevant Performance Data

Your applications most likely consist of multiple components. These components could be written in different languages, with each…

Improved visibility for Issue Alerts

As most developers know, alert-fatigue is real, and the last thing you want is another feed of notifications. Read on to learn how the new…

How We Run Successful Beta Tests with Error Reporting

In this post, Dennis Gurock of Testmo walks through how his team uses Sentry to identify errors during beta tests.

Improve Performance in Your iOS Applications - Part 1

This article walks through performance improvements focused on the build system, configuration changes, and more.

Scaling a High-Growth Business with Sentry

With 150+ engineers shipping new features daily, 8 automatic deployments running at the top of every hour and teams regularly pushing new code, tuning out the noise takes on a whole new meaning.

Unity Tutorial: Developing Your First Unity Game - Part 1

In this article, we are going to walk through adding a new scene, two important components (Rigid 2D and Box Collider 2D), how to destroy a game object, prefab, and how to instantiate a prefab.

Sentry Points of Presence: How We Built a Distributed Ingestion Infrastructure

Event ingestion is one of the most mission-critical components at Sentry, so it’s only natural that we constantly strive to improve its…

Android Manifest Placeholders

In this article, you will learn how to make use of Android Manifest placeholders to supercharge your Android app development.

The Sentry Ruby SDK now supports Release Health

Developers work tirelessly to publish updates to improve their products and services because, as we all know, a better user experience…

Why We Returned To Work At Sentry Full-Time

After wrapping up their fall and winter internships at Sentry, David Wang and Leander Rodrigues knew that this was where they wanted to kick…

Performance Monitoring and more updates to Sentry for Electron

For those who aren’t that familiar with it, Electron is an open-source framework that allows developers to build cross-platform desktop…

Unity Tutorial: What You Need to Know Before Developing Your First Unity Game

This step-by-step walkthrough of Unity's platform will help beginners navigate platform basics, with screenshots to assist.

11 Python IDEs Developers Should Consider

While all beginning Python developers will probably start coding using Python’s Integrated Development and Learning Environment (IDLE), it won’t take long before they realize this approach has its limits. Most will look to tools that help them more efficiently build code.

Building an Always-on Business Leaves No Room for Downtime

If uptime is a core tenet of your business success, unreported issues and users moving on to the next best thing isn't an option. Take San Francisco-based Arcade for example.

Continuous Performance Improvement of HTTP API

We develop an analytics HTTP API in Python. This is how we discover what to improve to serve requests faster.

JS Browser SDK: Bundle size matters

SDKs naturally increase in size over time. After all, it does take more bytes to implement more features. This is not a big deal for most…

How we optimized Python API server code 100x

Some of the tricks we used to speed up calls to our analytics API written in Python: played with asyncio, messed with SQLAlchemy, hacked deep in asyncpg, rewrote parts in Cython, found better data structures, replaced some pandas with pure numpy.

Alias: An approach to .NET Assembly Conflict Resolution

Many .NET applications and frameworks support a plugin based model. Also known as “add-in” or “extension” model. A plugin model allows…

Tracking Stability in a Bluetooth Low Energy-Based React-Native App

Daniel is an Agile Software Developer specializing in all forms of mobile development, Native iOS, React-Native, and beyond

Join Sentry at Game Developers Conference 2022

In just a few short weeks, nearly 17,000 game developers will embark—potentially for the first time in a couple of years—to San Francisco…

Get Insights Into Project Health with Updates to Dashboards and Stats

We made a few updates to Dashboards and Stats so you can spend less time manually building reports and more time getting insights.

Why is Python so Popular?

Nahla Davies is a software developer and tech writer. Before devoting her work full time to technical writing, she managed—among other intriguing things—to serve as a lead programmer at an Inc. 5,000 experiential branding organization whose clients include Samsung, Time Warner, Netflix, and Sony.

Usual Performance Suspects: Introducing Suspect Spans

A trace is the end-to-end journey of one or more connected spans and a span is an operation or “work” taking place on a service. So when it…

UI Breadcrumbs for Android Error Events

In many cases, when a crash happens in your Android application, you want more context on what occured before the issue — kind of like…

How to monitor Lambda functions in your SST application

Jay V is one of the founders of Serverless Stack (SST), an open-source framework that makes it easy to build serverless apps. He spends his…

2021: A Year in Review

As we (happily) leave 2021 in the dust, humor us one more retrospective. After thousands of bug fixes, feature enhancements, and performance improvements, here's a snapshot of what we shipped to help you see what actually matters, solve quicker, and learn continuously about your applications.

Deprecation From U2F API to WebAuthn

If you’re using the U2F API for registration and authentication of your U2F devices, you will notice a dire situation is coming soon: Google…

Yes, Open Source Is Sustainable

Two months ago, we announced our annual investment in open source maintainers, mostly folks whose work we depend on to deliver Sentry to you…

Sentry's response to Log4j vulnerability CVE-2021-44228

Sentry is not impacted by the log4j vulnerabilities, CVE-2021-44228 or CVE-2021-45046, also known as log4shell.

Bytecode transformations: The Android Gradle Plugin

The first part of a blog post series about bytecode transformations on Android, where we talk about different approaches to bytecode manipulation in Java as well as how to make it work with Android and the Android Gradle plugin.

Prioritize the Right Performance Monitoring Metrics

We can all agree that one of the great pleasures in life is seeing the exact performance monitoring chart you want - exactly where you want it on the Sentry Performance home page. No? Ok. Well, at least we agree it's better than not having the chart you want where you want it, right? I thought so. That's why we made our main performance monitoring view modular.

Bringing Specto into the Sentry Family

We’re delighted to announce that we’ve acquired Specto, a powerful mobile profiling tool from ex-Facebook mobile experts who share our…

Monitoring our Local Development Environment with Sentry

Is your organization's local development environment plagued with issues? Read on how you can use Sentry to monitor it and help you solve issues quickly.

Measure, Track, Improve: Streamlined event exploration and increased visibility into team health

For many engineering leaders, measuring their team’s impact can be hard to quantify and a face:palm process, filled with searching through logs and exporting data sets to cobble together a report that most people won't even look at twice. And let's be honest, if you wanted to spend time making reports, you wouldn't have become a developer.

Change Happens - Get Alerted

To give you enough notice to fix an issue before it escalates, we’re evolving our alerts and making them more proactive with Change and…

Keep Gamers Gaming — Application Monitoring for Unity

Given the millions of registered Unity developers worldwide, Unity is arguably the most popular engine used to develop games. But, whether…

We Just Gave $154,999.89 to Open Source Maintainers

Sentry is an open source company. We started out in 2008 as a small open source side project, and we grew within the community for years…

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