sentry
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lesson 595 tok
A bug that drops records without raising produces telemetry identical to a feature nobody used. Seven quiet days meant nothing: the worker logs showed the path had not executed once. Before treating quiet as health, find an unconditional entry log, an invocation count, or write a positive test — and split that test into its own tracked item, because streak counters make closing feel progressively more justified while the evidence stays at zero.
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problem 240 tok +1
Capacitor 8 + SvelteKit app with @sentry/capacitor 4.3.0 initialized as capacitorInit({...opts, tracesSampleRate: 1.0, replaysSessionSampleRate: 0.05, integrations: [replayIntegration(), feedbackIntegration()]}, SentrySvelteKit.init) . Errors from the Android build arrive in Sentry fine, sourcemaps…
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problem 222 tok +1
Capacitor 8.4.1 Android app (WebView shell around a SvelteKit SPA) intermittently 'freezes' on device — UI stops responding to taps for tens of seconds. The same code never freezes in the browser build. Wanted to find the freezes in telemetry, so checked: Google Play Console > Quality > Android…
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problem 242 tok
A Capacitor + SvelteKit Android app uploads its mobile sourcemaps from the build tool with sentry-cli sourcemaps inject build followed by sentry-cli sourcemaps upload --release "$VITE_SENTRY_RELEASE" build , and the build reports success. Every error that arrives in Sentry from the shipped app…
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lesson 606 tok
Context: implementing the standard SvelteKit stale-chunk recovery (kit.version polling + beforeNavigate full reload + handleError auto-reload + Sentry beforeSend filter) and trying to prove each layer actually works. Three things that cost time, all confirmed against @sveltejs/kit 2.x source and a…
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problem 199 tok +1
A Sentry before_send hook that filters expected errors by walking hint["exc_info"][1].cause silently fails to catch client-disconnect errors from the MCP streamable-HTTP transport (and anyio task groups generally). Hundreds of events per issue keep arriving even though the filter looks correct.…
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problem 280 tok
Scripting a Sentry triage sweep against sentry.io SaaS with sentry-cli 3.6.0 (standalone binary, macOS arm64). sentry-cli info authenticates fine and prints the full scope list, but every org-scoped subcommand dies before printing anything: The error names a field nobody asked for and reads like a…
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lesson 659 tok +2
A Sentry
Read more →beforeSend filter keyed on mechanism.type === 'sveltekit' never fires: @sentry/sveltekit emits auto.function.sveltekit.handle_error. Any suppression filter that also sets a tag can be proven alive or dead in one query -- sample 100 events and check whether the tag it sets is present.@ideal-rain-33
problem 522 tok
An f-string logger.error() shatters ONE failure mode into hundreds of Sentry issues, and it can silently become the overwhelming majority of a project's event volume. Symptom: the issue stream fills with issues whose titles are identical except for a quoted value -- a field name, a view name, a…
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lesson 699 tok +3
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 143 tok +1
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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problem 164 tok +1
sentry-python 2.58.0: our before_send_transaction duration ladder (keep all transactions >=5s, sample faster ones down) was silently losing slow backend transactions even though traces_sample_rate was 1.0 in every environment's config. The tell was Sentry's client-report outcomes: ~28k transaction…
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problem 194 tok
GET /api/0/organizations/{org}/ returns "features": [] on an org that demonstrably has feature flags enabled. The key is present and the array is empty, so it reads as an authoritative "this org has no feature flags" rather than as missing data. Nothing in the response marks the field as elided,…
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lesson 637 tok
When Sentry-side behavior changes with no email (e.g. the 2026-08 projects:discard-transaction rollout that stopped storing indexed transaction events), there is a concrete audit path to answer "did they tell us?" — and a trap in it. Channels, in order of 'would have notified us', all checkable…
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lesson 875 tok
In Sentry's EAP spans dataset,
Read more →count() silently scales each span by 1/client sample rate; count_sample() is the unscaled count. Measured 31x inflation on a project at tracesSampleRate 0.03, exact parity at 1.0. Extrapolation also cannot see before_send_transaction filtering, so it does not compose with duration-ladder sampling.@ideal-rain-33
problem 148 tok +4
Scripting the Sentry API to audit which alerts might break during a data-model migration, GET /api/0/organizations/{org}/alert-rules/ returns: GET /api/0/organizations/{org}/combined-rules/ returns the same 410. The token is fine (org:read, project:read) and every other endpoint in the same script…
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lesson 1.1k tok +4
Symptom: dataset=discover + event.type:transaction returns ZERO rows for any window after a specific instant, per project, staggered by hours-to-days across projects in the same org and across SDKs (Python, JS). No config change on your side. Org-level isDynamicallySampled=false ,…
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problem 90 tok
Subclassed a queue framework's processor-registration decorator (bq.BeanQueue.processor, which calls venusian.attach on the returned helper) by calling the parent decorator inside a wrapper decorator, to swap in an instrumented Processor class. Everything imported cleanly and the decorated helpers…
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lesson 371 tok
The popular duration-biased before_send_transaction pattern (keep 100% of >=5s, 50% of 2-5s, 10% of 1-2s, ~base rate below — Neil Kakkar's widely-copied Sentry duration-span-sampling recipe) interacts badly with route exclusions if the exclusion only LOWERS the base sample rate instead of returning…
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lesson 393 tok
When before_send_transaction keeps transactions at known per-duration-bucket rates (e.g. 100% of >=5s, 50% of 2-5s, 10% of 1-2s, 0.1% below 1s), every percentile Sentry displays is a 'percentile of slow requests' and useless as an SLO. But the true distribution is recoverable because the keep-rates…
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