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Introducing Session Replay from Sentry: Bridge the Gap between Code and UX

Sentry
You know that annoying bug? The one that doesn’t show up locally? And no matter how many times you try to recreate the environment you can’t reproduce it? You’v...
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Distributed Tracing 101 for Full Stack Developers

Dashboards
In the early days of the web, writing web applications was simple. Developers generated HTML on the server using a language like PHP, communicated with a single...
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How we grew Sentry's monthly active users by rethinking invitations

Sentry
At its core, Sentry is a tool that alerts you to defects in your production software. But it does more than blast stack traces into your inbox: Sentry provides ...
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4 Reasons Why Your Source Maps are Broken & How to Fix Them

Sentry
Source maps are awesome. Namely, because they are used to display your original JavaScript while debugging, which is a lot easier to look at than minified produ...
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6 Tips for Reducing JavaScript Error Noise

Error Monitoring
If you're using Sentry for JavaScript error tracking, you might be suffering from a common affliction: noisy, low-value errors that make it harder for you and y...
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Improve Signal to Noise with Inbound Filters

Error Monitoring
We've frequently heard from users that they want an easy way to filter unwanted issues from their Sentry projects – one that doesn't involve tricky client confi...
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Rich Error Logging & Reports with Redux Middleware

Error Monitoring
If you're a client-side developer, you've probably heard of Redux, a JavaScript library that helps manage application state in complex applications. It has beco...
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Vue.js Error Reporting with Sentry

SDK Updates
In anticipation of the upcoming release of Vue.js 2, we've updated Sentry to officially support Vue.js 2.x through our browser JavaScript SDK. Getting Started A...
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Support for Minified React Errors

Sentry
As React developers, we know how frustrating it is when an error occurs in your React app and all you have is the following: Minified exception occurred; use th...
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Welcome Katie Lundsgaard

Sentry
We're excited to announce that Katie Lundsgaard is joining the engineering team. Katie will be working on Sentry after recently graduating from Hackbright Acade...
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Log Angular 2 Errors with Sentry

Error Monitoring
Angular 2 is almost here, and so it's with great pleasure that Sentry now officially provides support for Angular 2 error tracking through our browser JavaScrip...
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What is a Script Error?

Error Monitoring
If you’ve done any work with the JavaScript onerror event before, you’ve probably come across the following: "Script error." “Script error” is what browsers sen...
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Welcome Jess MacQueen

Sentry
We're excited to announce that Jess MacQueen is joining the engineering team. Jess joins us from Chartio where she worked on everything from building out the UI...
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How to write bulletproof function wrappers in JavaScript

Sentry
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 ...
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Capture and report JavaScript errors with window.onerror

Error Monitoring
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 ...
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Sentry JavaScript SDK 2.0.0 is available now

SDK Updates
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...
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Debuggable JavaScript in Production with Source Maps

Error Monitoring
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...
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Sentry 8 starts rolling out this week

Sentry
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...
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