Important change to our email delivery

Ensuring our users get email notifications of errors in real-time is a top priority for us. Last week, our email provider Mandrill announced significant changes...

Looking Back on 2015

In January of 2015, Chris and I sat down and decided it was time to commit to Sentry (no pun intended). We opened our first office here in San Francisco, hired ...

Happy Hour in San Francisco

Our next Happy Hour will be next Tuesday, so come grab a drink on us and meet everyone in the community. Come ready with your questions on error monitoring and ...

Sentry 2016 Spring Conference Schedule

Sentry team members are packing their bags and heading out on the road! We’re sending representatives to conferences all around the world this year, and are su...

Buffering SQL Writes with Redis

It's no secret that one of Sentry's core technologies is SQL, specifically PostgreSQL. We're huge advocates of simplicity, and Postgres is one of those tools th...

What is Crash Reporting?

Crash reporting is a critical programming best practice. However, if you’ve never been exposed to the concept before, it can be tough to understand how it works...

Sentry's 2nd Happy Hour in San Francisco

We had an awesome turnout at last month's Happy Hour, thanks to everyone who made it! Our next Happy Hour will be next Tuesday, so come grab a drink on us and m...

How to write bulletproof function wrappers in JavaScript

In our client JavaScript SDK – Raven.js – we make use of a lot of function wrapping. We even provide a utility API method, Raven.wrap, that automatically wraps ...

Capturing Java Exceptions with Sentry

Getting started with Java exception handling can be an intimidating prospect. The large number of dependency managers, logging frameworks, configuration methods...

Introducing Saved Searches

If you've been staring at your stream this week you probably noticed something a little different. Our predefined filters have been replaced with a new dropdown...

Welcome Theresa Vermeersch

We're thrilled to have Theresa Vermeersch joining our team! Theresa is a coffee connoisseur, book nerd, and art and design enthusiast. Outside of the office, sh...

Monitoring the Monitor

At Sentry we aim to make crash reporting pleasant. For us, that means you don’t need to dig into sparse logs to determine what’s going on. The entire the reason...

Happy Hour in San Francisco

To celebrate the release of Sentry 8 we're hosting a Happy Hour in San Francisco. Join us for some casual conversation and let us buy you a drink. Come ready wi...

Sentry 8 On-Premise

$ git diff --stat 7.7.4..8.0.0 [...] 1548 files changed, 196150 insertions(+), 132725 deletions(-) Three months ago we pushed out an early version of Sentry 8 ...

Internationalization and React

It's always nice if a project outgrows your initial vision in a way. This happened for the first time in Sentry a long time ago when translations kept rolling ...

Capture and report JavaScript errors with window.onerror

onerror is a special browser event that fires whenever an uncaught JavaScript error has been thrown. It’s one of the easiest ways to log client-side errors and ...

Sentry JavaScript SDK 2.0.0 is available now

We’ve just released version 2.0.0 of our client JavaScript integration library, Raven.js. This version introduces some important major changes from 1.3.0. Let’s...

Per-Project Rate Limits

UPDATE: This feature has since been removed from Sentry. This post exists for historical purposes. We've received a lot of requests for per-project quotas. Usua...

Notification Digests For All

Several weeks ago we announced a preview release of notification digests, an error monitoring feature that we have been working on that focuses on reducing noti...

Marking Issues as Fixed in Sentry

Since its inception Sentry has allowed you to resolve errors -- that is, tell the system that the issue is fixed. This made sense if you resolved in Sentry afte...

Snoozing Issues in Sentry

We pushed out a minor, but long overdue error monitoring feature today: Snoozing. If you've used the muting functionality in Sentry you'll already feel at home ...

Notification Digests Preview

One of the more frequent pieces of feedback that we hear from users of Sentry is that they'd like to reduce the number of notifications that they receive withou...

Welcome Eric Feng

We're excited to announce that Eric Feng is officially joining the engineering team, where he’ll be focusing on growth and customer happiness. Eric joins us fro...

Sentry for HipChat Connect

Sentry is more useful when notifications arrive exactly where you want them. That's why we've always put emphasis on supporting a wide range of notification sys...

Debuggable JavaScript in Production with Source Maps

These days, the code you use to write your application isn’t usually the same code that’s deployed in production and interpreted by browsers. Perhaps you’re wri...

Sentry emails get a facelift

Last week we pushed an update to our notification emails. In addition to overhauling the visual design and addressing various legibility issues, we've restructu...

Rethinking Roles

Sentry has a long history of building features to add support to complex organizational security. It's the reason we support things like multiple and revokable ...

Sentry 8 is here

After nearly 2 months of beta testing, bug fixing, and implementing feedback-driven improvements, we're excited to announce that we have finally pushed the late...

Single Sign-On is now Open Source

Sentry has always been a company built on open source fundamentals. In our past jobs we constantly pushed organizations to allow us to open source our work. At ...

Austin Drinkup

DjangoCon is in Austin this week and myself, Ted, and Armin will be kicking off Sentry's first community drinkup. Whether you're here for the conference or just...

Welcome Ted Kaemming

We're excited to announce that Ted Kaemming is joining the engineering team at Sentry. Previously, Ted worked on infrastructure projects at Disqus, including Sa...

Welcome Matt Robenolt

We're excited to announce that Matt Robenolt is officially joining the engineering team at Sentry. Matt is a long time member of the Sentry project and avid ope...

Sentry 8 starts rolling out this week

Earlier this month we announced a brand new version of Sentry, “version 8". Besides a brand new look and feel, Sentry 8 introduces some powerful new error monit...

rb: A Redis parallelization toolkit for Python

We love Redis at Sentry. Since the early days it has driven many parts of our system, allowing users to improve error monitoring with rate limiting and caching,...

Take Part in the Sentry 8 Beta

Nearly 18 months ago we began exploring a brand new look for Sentry. Around the same time we also decided to modernize Sentry’s frontend. After many iterations...

Rethinking Sentry's Documentation

If you have searched for the Sentry or integration docs lately you might have noticed that some things have changed. There are now consolidated docs for Sentry ...

Welcome Ben Vinegar

We're excited to announce that Ben Vinegar is joining the engineering team at Sentry. You may know Ben as the co-author of Third-party JavaScript, or from his n...

Transaction ID Wraparound in Postgres

On Monday, July 20th, Sentry was down for most of the US working day. We deeply regret any issues this may have caused for your team and have taken measures to ...

How to: Logging Go Errors to Sentry

So you're picking up Go and wondering "where did all my exceptions go?" It takes a bit to wrap your head around using Go, especially if you're coming from an in...

Free for Academia

For a long time we’ve had an unwritten policy to support students and education. Over the years that has included various organizations, such as Scratch and The...

Driven by Open Source

Seven years ago I would frequent an IRC channel setup for users of the Django web framework. Like an old-fashioned Stack Overflow, it was a mix of people asking...

Single Sign-On via Google and New Pricing

Today we're launching integration with Google Apps. The biggest change is that all of our company-focused tiers now include Single Sign-On for Google Apps. This...

Better Team Management in Sentry

Today we're rolling out several improvements to the way teams are managed in Sentry. We feel these changes will help your organization become more autonomous, a...

Continuous Deployment with Freight

Early on at Sentry we set up Jenkins to automatically deploy after a passing build. Eventually we wanted better control over where we were deploying, and when (...

Welcome Armin Ronacher

We've been building Sentry the product for a while now, but we've only recently begun building Sentry the business. With the overwhelming adoption of both our o...

Sentry + Facepunch Studios

Culturally, the common thread at Sentry is gaming. More often than not we’ll close out a day by hopping on voice chat and firing up a game. Lately, that game ha...

Announcing the Sentry API

Today we're excited to introduce the Sentry API, which will help ops teams and developers integrate Sentry deeper into their exception handling workflows. Altho...

Introducing Organizations

Historically, managing org structure, membership, and billing in Sentry has been a pain. Today we're announcing several giant steps towards making your error mo...

State of the union: JavaScript Exceptions and Stacktraces

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OpenSSL Vulnerability and SSL Certificate Changes

You've likely already heard about the recent OpenSSL vulnerability called Heartbleed. We have no indication that any of our systems were compromised, and we've ...

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