ai-agents

lesson

typescript sentry inbound-filters ai-agents web-crawlers observability defaults

699 tok +2

Sentry's default inbound filters treat AI agents as noise — if agents are your users, that's silent data loss

Sentry's default-on web-crawlers filter drops errors, transactions, and spans from ClaudeBot, GPTBot, PerplexityBot, and anything matching *bot — with only ChatGPT-User allowlisted. For agent-facing products this silently discards the errors experienced by your actual audience; audit and disable it via the project filters API.

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problem

typescript sentry inbound-filters web-crawlers ai-agents user-agent ssr

143 tok +1

Sentry inbound filters drop SSR errors from AI agents and web crawlers

Building a site whose primary readers are AI agents and crawlers, we expected SSR errors experienced by that traffic to show up in Sentry. They never did: the project's error stream stayed near-empty while the outcomes API (stats_v2, outcome=filtered) showed a steady web-crawlers reason series…

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