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

Causal is the business and financial planning platform that allows users to build models effortlessly, connect them directly to their data, and share them with ...

Exception Handling in Java (with Real Examples)

Java has been a mainstay for almost 30 years at this point. Teams rely on it for cross‑platform apps, enterprise backends, and the Android OS. It’s also a popul...

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 services being incessabil...

A CTOs Perspective on How To Scale With Sentry SaaS

Bigeye is the data observability platform that teams at companies like Zoom and Instacart use to keep their data pipelines fresh, high quality, and reliable. Th...

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, fast and responsive, ...

Unity Tutorial: Developing Your First Unity Game - Part 2

Welcome to the third article in my Unity series where we are developing a Unity game. You can check out my intro article, where I dive into Unity editor basics,...

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 important to our customers a...

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 worth a pound of cure. ...

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

Forethought is a leading AI company providing solutions that transform the customer experience for brands like Marriott, Asana and Instacart. As a high-growth s...

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 all use Flutter to qu...

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 brings a handful of...

Spring Boot Application Troubleshooting with Sentry

We previously wrote a quick guide to using Sentry with Spring Boot and Logback. Since then, we’ve continued improving the development experience, added several ...

How to Surface Relevant Performance Data

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

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 Alert Details view he...

How We Run Successful Beta Tests with Error Reporting

We've recently completed a large beta test for our new product here at Testmo. We build a test management tool, so most of our users are professional software t...

Improve Performance in Your iOS Applications - Part 1

Since inception back in 2007, Apple and the iOS ecosystem has drastically improved with a plethora of changes and new features added (or removed) over time. At ...

Scaling a High-Growth Business with Sentry

When you have more than 150 engineers shipping new features daily, with 8 automatic deployments running at the top of every hour and teams regularly pushing new...

Unity Tutorial: Developing Your First Unity Game - Part 1

Welcome to the second article in this Unity series. You can check out the first article, where I dive into Unity editor basics, here. Over the next few posts we...

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 scalability and efficien...

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 = happier customers. Whil...

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 off their careers, ...

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 applications in JavaScri...

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

In this article we are going to talk about Unity basics. By the end you will understand the Unity editor interface, Game Objects and Sprites, the frequently use...

11 Python IDEs Developers Should Consider

Python is one of the most popular programming languages available for software and application development today. Indeed, nearly 50% of developers worldwide use...

Building an Always-on Business Leaves No Room for Downtime

As is often the case with digital products, your users could be experiencing issues you might not be aware of. The unknown unknowns could include random bugs or...

Continuous Performance Improvement of HTTP API

The following guest post addresses how to improve your services’s performance with Sentry and other application profilers for Python. Visit Specto.dev to learn ...

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 languages—the relative...

How we optimized Python API server code 100x

Python code optimization may seem easy or hard depending on the performance target. If the target is “best effort”, carefully choosing the algorithm and applyin...

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 extension or customizatio...

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

For most of my career I’ve worked with health and wellness startups. Most of these companies have a wearable that tracks movement, heart rate, body weight or st...

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, CA. The reason? The g...

Get Insights Into Project Health with Updates to Dashboards and Stats

Between planning, triaging tickets, negotiating requirements with external stakeholders, and actually building software, it's hard to take the time to make dash...

Why is Python so Popular?

Despite several widely acknowledged flaws, Python remains one of the most popular development languages worldwide. The sole fact that for years Python had two d...

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 comes to debugging a...

UI Breadcrumbs for Android Error Events

In [many] cases, when a crash happens in your Android application, you want more context on what occurred before the issue — kind of like following breadcrumbs ...

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 time trying to figur...

2021: A Year in Review

The last year has undoubtedly been a challenge for all of us. But humor us one final retrospective as we (happily) leave 2021 in the dust. Our mission remains t...

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 Chrome will no long...

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, plus a few researc...

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. On December 9th, 2021 CVE-2021-44228 was announc...

Bytecode transformations: The Android Gradle Plugin

This is the first part of a blog post series about bytecode transformations on Android. In this part we'll cover different approaches to bytecode manipulation i...

Prioritize the Right Performance Monitoring Metrics

Now every developer can customize the performance monitoring charts and data views on the Performance page to see what is most important to them and their team,...

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 determination for buildin...

Monitoring our Local Development Environment with Sentry

At Sentry, we’re always looking for innovative ways to dogfood our product. Over the last year we added Sentry’s error monitoring to our developer environment s...

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 da...

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 Crash Rate Alerts. So wh...

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 you’re building the ...

We Just Gave $154,999.89 to Open Source Maintainers

Sentry is an Open Source-aligned company. We started out in 2008 as a small open source side project, and we grew within the community for years before commerci...

Automate, Group, and Get Alerted: A Best Practices Guide to Monitoring your Code - Part 2

Missed part one? Check out the full guide here. As companies grow, so do their products, teams, and the number of external tools. For engineers, that can mean c...

Hacktoberfest is Upon Us

Ah, October. Pumpkin spice fills the nostrils of Northern Hemispherians, spring stirs the air in the South, and DigitalOcean & Friends bring us yet another inst...

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