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 Get Insights Into Project Health with Updates to Dashboards and Stats
Product Updates

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?
Engineering

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
Product Updates

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…

UI Breadcrumbs for Android Error Events
Product Updates

UI Breadcrumbs for Android Error Events

When a crash happens in your Android application, UI breadcrumbs can help you resolve errors faster. Learn more here.

How to monitor Lambda functions in your SST application
Engineering

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…

2021: A Year in Review
Product Updates

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
Product Updates

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…

Yes, Open Source Is Sustainable
Open Source

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…

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

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
Product Updates

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
Product Updates

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
Product Updates

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…

Monitoring our Local Development Environment with Sentry
Engineering

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
Product Updates

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
Product Updates

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…

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