5 easy tips to improve your personal website performance

If you’re a developer, you need a personal website. While billionaire-owned, algorithm-based social media platforms arbitrarily decide what people should and sh...

Building for the Fortune 500,000: 80% to go…

To the Sentry community - It was sixteen years ago that David Cramer pushed the first commit to a side project, and twelve years ago when he and Chris Jennings ...

Welcome Dave Rosenthal

A few months back I was talking with a leadership candidate and they said something that stuck with me. We were chatting about the challenges of scaling organiz...

Introducing the User Feedback Widget– The easiest way to connect with your users

Sentry is pretty good at capturing all your production issues. But sometimes your user hits an issue that doesn’t fire an exception – maybe a broken link, probl...

Sentry on Sentry: How Metrics saved us $160K

If you know me, you know I care about fast code. Recently, I ran a simple query that revealed that we spend almost $160k a year on one task. Luckily, we launche...

Why don’t we talk about minifying CSS anymore?

Minifying your CSS helps improve your website performance. But as developers, we don’t really talk about minifying CSS anymore. Why? The TL;DR is that the deliv...

Your background images might be causing CLS

Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) is where the layout of a web page unexpectedly shifts after the initial content loads and new content pops in. At its best, it’s a...

Small improvements add up to big updates at Sentry

It’s the little things that can make a big difference. While we announced significant product updates like Autofix and Metrics (to name a few) during Launch Wee...

Sentry & Supabase

Sentry helping keep Supabase Super One of the great things about working for a company like Sentry, is you get to try and find ways to make the latest and great...

Streamline Builds with Android Manifest Placeholders

Android Manifest file is essential for any Android app, which contains specific information about your app, Android build tools, Google Play, device permissions...

Edge Functions & Monitoring Supabase Databases

When cloud service providers first started popping up, many developers were “wowed” by being able to spin up and scale all kinds of infrastructure to deploy the...

How I fixed my brutal TTFB

Recently, I improved all my homepage Core Web Vitals by concentrating on improving just one metric: the Time to First Byte (TTFB). All it took was two small cha...

Improving INP and FID with production profiling

On March 12 Google began promoting INP (Interaction to Next Paint) into a Core Web Vital metric in an effort to push performance beyond page loads. This means y...

Low effort image optimization tips

“A picture is worth a thousand words”. So if a picture takes more than 4 seconds to load, does it mean that your website’s content fails to communicate a thousa...

Five improvements to Make Debugging Less Terrible

Over the past year, we released a couple of new offerings, like Session Replay and Cron Monitoring. But in addition to building new products, we’re constantly l...

Break Production Less: Introducing Codecov's Pre-release Focus

While there are several solutions that try to help you improve your testing practices and tooling, we believe that high-quality software is not just limited to ...

Using machine learning to focus on issues that matter

We’ve been exploring new approaches to make Sentry issues more actionable. Read on to learn how we’re using machine learning to improve issue creation (i.e. gro...

AI-powered Autofix debugs & fixes your code in minutes

Sentry knows a lot about the inner workings of an application’s codebase. So we got to thinking, how can we use this rich dataset to make debugging with Sentry ...

INP, tracing, and mobile app starts: move faster and solve real user pain with Sentry Performance

Today, we're making it even easier to find and solve user-impacting issues with three new Sentry Performance features: INP (Interaction to Next Paint) as a new ...

Measure what matters and fix issues fast with Metrics: now in beta

Four years ago, we stepped on some big toes with our developer-first performance monitoring. Since then thousands of software teams have adopted our modern APM ...

Aspire Insights in Production with Sentry

Aspire 101 With the release of .NET 8, Microsoft released a new framework called .NET Aspire that's shaking up the way distributed applications are crafted. Asp...

What is INP and why you should care

On March 12th 2024, Google is launching a new Core Web Vital metric, Interaction to Next Paint (INP). INP will replace First Input Delay (FID) and will change t...

Improving mobile performance, from slow screens to app start time

Based on our experience working with thousands of mobile developer teams, we developed a mobile monitoring maturity curve here at Sentry. We hypothesized that o...

Sentry .NET SDK 4.0 improvements for .NET 8

As we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Sentry’s support for the .NET ecosystem with over 150 million downloads, we’re excited to announce Sentry .NET 4.0! Buil...

Patching A Flood of 404s

Documentation serves as a roadmap, guiding you toward reliable and high-performing code. Like maps that evolve to reflect new roads and infrastructure, our docu...

Navigating Cookies at Sentry: A Legal Perspective

You may have noticed that the banners asking you to accept “cookies” whenever you visit a website have gotten bigger and more annoying over time, especially if ...

January monthly product update

With January over, 2024 is in full swing. Read on below to find out more about the Metrics Alpha, Cron Monitoring GA, SDK improvements, and more. Cron Monitorin...

How to deal with API rate limits

When I first had the idea for this post, I wanted to provide a collection of actionable ways to handle errors caused by API rate limits in your applications. Bu...

Terms of Service Update

This post is outdated. Read our AI Privacy Principles for our most up-to-date approach to generative AI. We talked about changing our Terms of Service in supp...

Debugging weird stack traces with Session Replay

Imagine this: Your website is getting a lot of traffic and you have some kind of metrics, logging, or performance monitoring setup (maybe even Sentry). You’re a...

Understanding Middleware: A Developer's Guide

As developers, we often encounter the term "middleware" in the context of building web applications, APIs, and backend systems. But what exactly is middleware, ...

Cron Monitoring is Now Generally Available

Sentry Cron Monitoring alerts you when your scheduled jobs fail and gives you the context you need to fix it - like we do with error and performance issues. Cro...

Now’s The Time For Delayed Open Source

Sentry was born and bred in the Open Source community, and we very much think of ourselves as part of it today. One thing we’ve learned together over the years ...

Privacy by Default

While companies tout the importance of user privacy, few put their money where their mouth is – or in our case, actually live and breathe the concept the way we...

We removed advertising cookies, & here’s what happened

This is not another abstract post about what the ramifications of what a cookieless future might be; Sentry actually removed cookies from our website a few mont...

December Monthly Product Update

Let’s cut right to it. Read on to learn about all the product updates from our oddly productive December. From new tools to help with debugging while in develop...

Browser Profiling Learnings from Sentry.io

Since enabling browser profiling on our Sentry.io dashboard a month ago, we have collected over 2M profiles and learned a lot about how our users experience our...

Enhancing Security Transparency: Sentry's New Public Security Advisories Repo

As developers, staying informed about security vulnerabilities is crucial for safeguarding our products and, ultimately, our users. Sentry is taking a bold step...

AI, Privacy and Terms of Service Updates

Update Hey everyone. We’ve gotten your feedback and heard your concerns; we were less than artful in expressing our intentions. Many of the things that people ...

Fix your actual slow-loading assets with Resource Monitoring

Slow-loading assets on your web pages can lead to frustrated users, high bounce rates, and lost conversions. For the vast majority of websites, slow-loading res...

Leveraging our new User Feedback widget to improve our Performance product

While Sentry can automatically detect unhandled exceptions, poor performance, and even signals of user frustration such as rage clicks, there are some problems ...

Fetch Waterfall in React

Have you seen this problem? Or maybe this one? You’ve most likely seen this: export const Component = () => { const [data, setData] = useState() const [load...

Sentry Bundle Size: How We Reduced Replay SDK by 35%

Bundle Size matters - this is something we SDK engineers at Sentry are acutely aware of. In an ideal world, you'd get all the functionality you want with no add...

Fallbacks for HTTP 404 images in HTML and JavaScript

Your images are 404ing all over the place. You’ve got an angry email from a client. Their site is “broken”, images aren’t loading, cumulative layout shift is ru...

November product updates for Sentry

Grab your favorite mug, fill it with some warm chocolatey goodness – it is hot cocoa season after all –, and check out our most recent product updates to Sentry...

Spotlight: Sentry for Development

A long time ago I worked on a project called Django Debug Toolbar (DJDT). It was a local development plugin that would give you a debug overlay within Django’s ...

Fixing memoization-breaking re-renders in React

React’s component-based approach to building web applications allows us to break up our web apps into smaller components that we can easily reuse. When a compon...

Introducing the Functional Source License: Freedom without Free-riding

Sentry started life in 2008 as an unlicensed, 71-line Django plugin. The next year we began publishing it under BSD-3, and ten years later we switched to the Bu...

SDK & Integration Updates: Sentry for every platform, framework, and tool

It seems like these days there’s a new exciting framework or dev tool launched every week. The challenge is that even if you’re ready and able to use new produc...

Sentry’s EU Data Region Now in Early Access

Like many of our customers, Sentry takes privacy and data sovereignty seriously. One of Sentry’s values is to be for “Every Developer,” and we can’t do that wit...

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