{"id":302,"date":"2021-04-09T12:23:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T12:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.spike.sh\/2021\/04\/09\/how-to-error-tracking-alerts-sentry\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T14:04:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T08:34:45","slug":"how-to-error-tracking-alerts-sentry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spike.sh\/how-to-error-tracking-alerts-sentry\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Set Up Error Tracking and Alerts with Sentry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

Sentry<\/a> is one of the most popular error tracking tools, which monitors your application for errors and exceptions. Sentry also has an open source <\/a>version of the product that you can host yourself, but today we will talk about their cloud hosted product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Installation<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

You can install Sentry by creating a project in your Sentry account and following the installation instructions.  In most cases, you will install the Sentry SDK on the backend or frontend (depending on your project) and start Sentry as early in your application as possible. Sentry supports 90+ platforms, so your language and framework should most likely be in the list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sentry\u2019s error view<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After you install Sentry, it will start tracking unhandled exceptions and sending it to your Sentry project. Here is what an error from Sentry will look like.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Error in Sentry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

You can see that Sentry shows a lot of valuable information for each error. Broadly, an error in Sentry will show –<\/p>\n\n\n\n