sentry-pack

Advanced Sentry troubleshooting for complex SDK issues, silent event drops, source map failures, distributed tracing gaps, and SDK conflicts. Use when events silently disappear, source maps fail to resolve, traces break across service boundaries, or the SDK conflicts with other libraries like OpenTelemetry or winston. Trigger with phrases like "sentry events missing", "sentry source maps broken", "sentry debug", "sentry not capturing errors", "sentry tracing gaps", "sentry memory leak", "sentry sdk conflict".

Configure Sentry error tracking and performance monitoring for different application architectures. Use when setting up Sentry for monoliths, microservices, serverless functions, event-driven systems, frontend SPAs, mobile apps, or hybrid deployments. Trigger: "sentry monolith setup", "sentry microservices tracing", "sentry serverless lambda", "sentry event-driven kafka", "sentry react native", "sentry architecture pattern".

Integrate Sentry into CI/CD pipelines for automated release creation, source map uploads, and deploy notifications. Use when setting up GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or CircleCI to automate Sentry releases, upload source maps, or associate commits with deploys. Trigger with phrases like "sentry github actions", "sentry CI pipeline", "automate sentry releases", "sentry source map upload CI", "sentry gitlab ci", "sentry circleci".

Troubleshoot common Sentry integration issues and fixes. Use when encountering Sentry errors, missing events, source map failures, rate limits, or configuration problems. Trigger: "sentry not working", "sentry errors missing", "fix sentry", "sentry troubleshoot", "sentry 429", "source maps not resolving", "sentry events not showing", "sentry flush", "sentry CORS".

Optimize Sentry costs, reduce event volume, and manage quota spend. Use when analyzing Sentry billing, reducing error/transaction volume, configuring sampling rates, or preventing overage charges. Trigger: "reduce sentry costs", "sentry billing optimization", "sentry quota management", "optimize sentry spend", "sentry sampling".

Configure GDPR-compliant data handling, PII scrubbing, and data retention policies in Sentry. Use when implementing beforeSend filters, server-side data scrubbing rules, IP anonymization, data subject deletion requests, or SOC 2 audit controls. Trigger with phrases like "sentry pii scrubbing", "sentry gdpr", "sentry data privacy", "scrub sensitive data sentry", "sentry data retention", "sentry compliance".

Collect diagnostic information for Sentry troubleshooting and support tickets. Use when events are not appearing in Sentry, SDK initialization seems broken, DSN connectivity fails, source maps are not resolving, or preparing a support request. Trigger with "sentry debug info", "sentry diagnostics", "debug bundle", "sentry support ticket".

Track deployments and release health in Sentry. Use when configuring deployment tracking, release health monitoring, or connecting CI/CD deploys to error data in Sentry. Trigger with phrases like "sentry deploy tracking", "sentry release health", "track deployments sentry", "sentry deployment notification", "sentry suspect commits", "compare sentry releases".

Configure enterprise role-based access control, SSO/SAML2, and SCIM provisioning in Sentry. Use when setting up organization hierarchy, team permissions, identity provider integration, API token governance, or audit logging for compliance. Trigger: "sentry rbac", "sentry permissions", "sentry team access", "sentry sso setup", "sentry scim", "sentry audit log".

Implement advanced error capture and context enrichment with Sentry. Use when adding captureException/captureMessage calls, enriching errors with user context, tags, breadcrumbs, or custom fingerprinting. Trigger with "sentry error capture", "sentry context", "enrich sentry errors", "sentry exception handling", "sentry breadcrumbs", "sentry fingerprint".

Capture your first test error with Sentry and verify it appears in the dashboard. Use when testing a new Sentry integration, verifying error capture works after install-auth, or learning how to enrich events with user context, tags, and breadcrumbs. Trigger with phrases like "test sentry", "sentry hello world", "verify sentry", "first sentry error", "sentry capture test".

Execute incident response procedures using Sentry error monitoring. Use when investigating production outages, triaging error spikes, classifying incident severity, or building postmortem reports from Sentry data. Trigger with phrases like "sentry incident", "sentry triage", "investigate sentry error", "sentry runbook", "production incident sentry".

Install and configure Sentry SDK authentication with DSN setup. Use when setting up Sentry error tracking, configuring DSN, or initializing Sentry in a Node.js or Python project. Trigger with "install sentry", "setup sentry", "sentry auth", "configure sentry DSN".

Identify and fix common Sentry SDK pitfalls that cause silent data loss, cost overruns, and missed alerts. Covers 10 anti-patterns with fix code. Use when auditing Sentry config, debugging missing events, or reviewing SDK setup. Trigger: "sentry pitfalls", "sentry anti-patterns", "sentry mistakes", "why are sentry events missing".

Scale Sentry for high-traffic applications handling millions of events per day. Use when optimizing SDK performance at high volume, implementing adaptive sampling, managing quotas and costs at scale, or deploying Sentry across multi-region infrastructure. Trigger with phrases like "sentry high traffic", "scale sentry", "sentry millions events", "sentry high volume", "sentry quota management", "sentry load test".

Configure Sentry for local development with environment-aware settings. Use when setting up dev vs prod DSN routing, enabling debug mode, tuning sample rates for local work, or testing source maps locally. Trigger with phrases like "sentry local dev", "sentry development config", "debug sentry locally", "sentry dev environment", "sentry spotlight".

Migrate to Sentry from other error tracking tools like Rollbar, Bugsnag, or New Relic. Use when replacing an existing error tracker with Sentry, running tools in parallel during a transition, or mapping API calls between providers. Trigger with phrases like "migrate to sentry", "switch from rollbar to sentry", "replace bugsnag with sentry", "sentry migration plan".

Configure Sentry across development, staging, and production environments with separate DSNs, environment-specific sample rates, per-environment alert rules, and dashboard filtering. Use when setting up Sentry for dev/staging/production, managing environment-specific configurations, isolating data between environments, or configuring .env files for per-environment DSNs. Trigger: "sentry environments", "sentry staging setup", "multi-environment sentry", "sentry dev vs prod", "sentry DSN per env".

Integrate Sentry with your observability stack — logging, metrics, APM, and dashboards. Use when connecting Sentry to winston/pino/structlog, correlating errors with business metrics, deciding between Sentry performance and Datadog/New Relic, building Sentry Discover dashboards, or linking events to external tools via extra context. Trigger: "sentry observability", "sentry logging", "sentry metrics", "sentry grafana", "sentry datadog correlation", "sentry discover dashboard".

Set up performance monitoring and distributed tracing with Sentry. Use when implementing performance tracking, tracing requests, or monitoring application performance. Trigger with phrases like "sentry performance", "sentry tracing", "sentry APM", "monitor performance sentry".

Optimize Sentry performance monitoring for lower overhead and higher signal. Use when tuning tracesSampleRate vs tracesSampler, configuring continuous profiling, fixing high-cardinality transaction names, adding custom span measurements, reducing SDK overhead, or setting Web Vitals thresholds. Trigger: "sentry performance optimize", "tune sentry sampling", "reduce sentry overhead", "sentry web vitals", "sentry profiling setup".

Enforce organizational governance and policy guardrails for Sentry usage. Use when standardizing Sentry configuration across services, enforcing PII scrubbing, building shared config packages, or auditing drift. Trigger with phrases like "sentry governance", "sentry policy", "sentry standards", "enforce sentry config", "sentry compliance".

Production deployment checklist for Sentry integration. Use when preparing a production deployment, auditing an existing Sentry setup, or running a go-live readiness review. Trigger: "sentry production checklist", "deploy sentry", "sentry go-live", "audit sentry config", "production readiness sentry".

Manage Sentry rate limits, quotas, and event volume optimization. Use when hitting 429 errors, tuning sampleRate/tracesSampleRate, filtering noisy browser errors with beforeSend, configuring inbound data filters, setting per-key rate limits, or monitoring quota usage via the Sentry stats API. Trigger: "sentry rate limit", "sentry quota", "reduce sentry events", "sentry 429", "sentry spike protection", "sentry sampling".

Design production-grade Sentry architecture for multi-service organizations. Use when planning Sentry rollout, structuring projects across teams, building shared config modules, or setting up distributed tracing. Trigger: "sentry architecture", "sentry project structure", "sentry reference design", "sentry distributed tracing".

Manage Sentry releases with versioning, commit association, and source map uploads. Use when creating releases, linking commits to errors, uploading release artifacts, monitoring release health, or cleaning up old releases. Trigger with phrases like "sentry release", "create sentry version", "sentry source maps", "sentry suspect commits", "release health".

Build reliable Sentry integrations with graceful degradation, circuit breakers, and offline queuing. Use when implementing fault-tolerant error tracking, handling SDK initialization failures, building retry logic for Sentry transports, or ensuring apps survive Sentry outages. Trigger with "sentry reliability", "sentry circuit breaker", "sentry offline queue", "sentry graceful degradation", "sentry failover", or "resilient sentry setup".

Best practices for using Sentry SDK in TypeScript and Python. Use when implementing structured error context with scopes, breadcrumb strategies, beforeSend/beforeBreadcrumb filtering, custom fingerprinting, user context, or performance span creation. Trigger: "sentry best practices", "sentry patterns", "sentry sdk usage", "sentry scope", "sentry breadcrumbs", "sentry beforeSend", "sentry fingerprint".

Configure Sentry security settings and data protection. Use when setting up PII scrubbing, managing sensitive data, configuring data scrubbing rules, or hardening Sentry for compliance. Trigger with phrases like "sentry security", "sentry PII", "sentry data scrubbing", "secure sentry", "sentry GDPR".

Upgrade Sentry SDK versions and migrate breaking API changes. Use when upgrading from Sentry v7 to v8, migrating Python SDK v1 to v2, replacing deprecated Hub/Transaction APIs, or running the migr8 codemod. Trigger: "upgrade sentry", "sentry migration", "sentry breaking changes", "migrate sentry v7 to v8", "update sentry sdk".