Sentry

Sentry is a debugging platform that helps developers detect, trace, and fix application issues by connecting errors with performance and runtime context. It supports many SDKs and integrates with common development workflows to speed up investigation and resolution.

Key Features

• Error and exception aggregation with stack traces and release context
• Application Performance Monitoring (APM) with distributed tracing and transaction breakdowns
• Alerting and issue triage tools to prioritize impactful problems
• Source code and deployment context support (for example commits and releases)
• Broad SDK ecosystem across languages and frameworks for capturing events and traces

Use Cases

• Monitor production applications for crashes and regressions after releases
• Investigate latency and bottlenecks using traces and transaction performance data
• Centralize error reporting across multi-service, multi-language environments

Limitations and Considerations

• Full-feature deployments typically require multiple components and supporting services, increasing operational complexity

Sentry is well-suited for teams that want a single platform to correlate errors, traces, and performance signals. It provides actionable context to reduce time-to-diagnosis and improve application reliability.