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Error monitoring platform for tracking application exceptions and performance issues
Sentry
Real-time error tracking and performance monitoring for developers
Sentry captures exceptions, performance data, and user context across languages, delivering actionable insights that let developers diagnose and resolve issues faster, all from a unified dashboard.
Overview
Overview
Sentry is a developer‑first platform that turns raw crash reports and performance metrics into clear, actionable tickets. With SDKs for over 20 runtimes—including JavaScript, Python, Go, and mobile frameworks—developers can instrument applications with a single line of code and start sending errors, stack traces, and user context to a central service.
How it works
Events are automatically grouped, enriched with release and environment data, and displayed on a searchable dashboard where teams can assign owners, set alerts, and drill into performance traces. Sentry can be run as a SaaS offering at sentry.io or self‑hosted via Docker, giving organizations flexibility to meet compliance or latency requirements while keeping the same feature set.
Community and integration
The platform integrates with popular issue trackers, CI pipelines, and chat tools, enabling automated ticket creation and real‑time notifications. A vibrant community contributes plugins, language bindings, and documentation, while the core team maintains a rapid release cadence. Whether you’re building a small web service or a large micro‑services architecture, Sentry scales to handle millions of events per day.
Highlights
Unified dashboard for errors and performance traces
Support for 20+ language SDKs
Automatic event grouping and context enrichment
SaaS and self‑hosted Docker deployment options
Pros
- Fast issue detection with real‑time alerts
- Broad language and framework coverage
- Rich context (user, release, environment) improves debugging
- Scalable architecture handles high event volume
Considerations
- Self‑hosting requires infrastructure and maintenance
- Advanced features may need paid SaaS tier
- Learning curve for configuring alerts and performance monitoring
- Large volume can increase storage costs
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Fit guide
Great for
- Teams that need immediate visibility into production errors
- Organizations with multi‑language codebases
- Companies requiring compliance‑ready self‑hosted monitoring
- Developers who want integrated performance tracing alongside crash reporting
Not ideal when
- Projects with minimal error volume and no performance concerns
- Teams lacking resources to manage self‑hosted infrastructure
- Environments where a lightweight logger without UI is sufficient
- Organizations that cannot allocate budget for premium SaaS features
How teams use it
Web application crash monitoring
Capture unhandled exceptions, group similar crashes, and notify developers instantly, reducing mean time to resolution.
Mobile app performance tracing
Record slow UI frames and network latency, visualize call stacks, and pinpoint bottlenecks across iOS and Android builds.
Micro‑services latency analysis
Collect distributed tracing spans across services, identify slow endpoints, and optimize end‑to‑end request times.
Compliance‑driven self‑hosting
Deploy Sentry in‑house via Docker to keep error data behind the firewall while retaining full feature parity.
Tech snapshot
Python56%
TypeScript43%
HTML1%
MDX1%
Less1%
JavaScript1%
Frequently asked questions
How does Sentry collect error data?
By installing an SDK in your application; the SDK captures exceptions, stack traces, and optional context, then sends JSON payloads to the Sentry server.
Can I use Sentry without a paid plan?
The core error‑tracking features are available in the free SaaS tier; self‑hosted deployments are also free, though advanced analytics may require a commercial license.
What languages are supported?
Official SDKs exist for JavaScript, Python, Go, Ruby, PHP, Java/Kotlin, Swift/Objective‑C, C#, C/C++, Dart/Flutter, and many more via community extensions.
How is data stored and retained?
Events are stored in a PostgreSQL database; retention periods can be configured per organization, with default limits set by the hosting plan.
Is there a way to integrate Sentry with my CI pipeline?
Yes, Sentry provides integrations for GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Jenkins, and others, allowing automatic issue creation and release tracking.
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