Dogfooding Chronicles
Dogfooding Chronicles is a series in which we gaze upon our navels and share tales of how we fix our product using our product.
Replaying Backend Errors using Sentry’s Session Replay
Dogfooding ChroniclesSession Replay is a powerful visual tool that captures user interactions, providing insights into the actions that resulted in errors. It records various activi...
Read onSentry on Sentry: How Metrics saved us $160K
Dogfooding ChroniclesIf 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...
Read onPatching A Flood of 404s
Dogfooding ChroniclesDocumentation serves as a roadmap, guiding you toward reliable and high-performing code. Like maps that evolve to reflect new roads and infrastructure, our docu...
Read onDogfooding Chronicles: Weekly Report Emails
Dogfooding ChroniclesIf you’re a Sentry user, you’ve probably seen those weekly emails we send out at the start of the week. They give a weekly recap to users of what happened in Se...
Read onMaking a Time Zone Picker Control for .NET MAUI
Dogfooding ChroniclesThis post is part of the MAUI UI July community series of blog posts and videos, hosted by Matt Goldman. Be sure to check out the other posts in the series! Hi...
Read onMonitoring our Local Development Environment with Sentry
Dogfooding ChroniclesAt Sentry, we’re always looking for innovative ways to dogfood our product. Over the last year we added Sentry’s error monitoring to our developer environment s...
Read onInstrumenting Our Frontend Test Suite (...and fixing what we found)
Dogfooding ChroniclesAdding Instrumentation to Jest Here at Sentry, we like to dogfood our product as much as possible. Sometimes, it results in unusual applications of our product ...
Read onDogfooding Chronicles: Never Be Content With Your Content (Security Policies)
Dogfooding ChroniclesAs the Internet evolves, so must our security mechanisms. It’s why same-origin policies (a Netscape-era directive in which resources from one origin are unable ...
Read onUsing Sentry Performance To Make Sentry Performant
Dogfooding ChroniclesLike many companies, Sentry uses feature flags to determine when certain users see certain features. Recently, we decided to switch our feature flag software to...
Read onIssue Detail Performance Improvements
Dogfooding ChroniclesOne of Sentry’s most-trafficked pages is our issue details page, as it helps our customers understand the root cause of an error. For those of you who are new t...
Read onVerifying Large Refactors in Production with Sentry
Dogfooding ChroniclesSentry is excellent at capturing runtime errors in your applications. With the recent additions of performance monitoring and release health, it can further hel...
Read onFinding and Fixing Django N+1 Problems
Dogfooding ChroniclesThe Django Python framework allows people to build websites extremely fast. One of its best features is the Object-relational mapper (ORM), which allows you to ...
Read onGo-Getting Lazy-Loading
Dogfooding ChroniclesLazy-loading is the most ironic term in programming. That’s because, instead of eating its third bowl of cereal on the couch, what lazy-loading actually does is...
Read onHandling GraphQL Errors Using Sentry
Dogfooding ChroniclesAs the adoption of GraphQL is rising steadily, teams often come across the natural question of how to deal with errors that pass service boundaries and propagat...
Read onDogfooding Chronicles: Thinking Backward, Moving Forward
Dogfooding ChroniclesZac Propersi, Engineering Manager at Sentry, can tell when a page is not loading as fast as it should — just by looking at it. While working on our new Metric A...
Read onDogfooding Chronicles: Tracing the path from “It’s Slow” to “What’s Slow”
Dogfooding ChroniclesDogfooding is the practice of sampling your own product before the public does. For dog food executives, chowing down on their own kibble is a literal gut-check...
Read onFixing Sentry with Sentry: Lock-Contention Edition
Dogfooding ChroniclesSentry recently experienced two minor outages related to database lock-contention: a situation where a process stops executing as it waits on another to release...
Read onCapture Content Security Policy (CSP) Violations with Sentry
Dogfooding ChroniclesThere are nearly two billion websites live at this very moment. That’s almost two billion chances for data to be stolen and malware to be distributed. Don’t wor...
Read onA peek at your privacy
Here’s a quick look at how Sentry handles your personal information (PII).
×Who we collect PII from
We collect PII about people browsing our website, users of the Sentry service, prospective customers, and people who otherwise interact with us.
What if my PII is included in data sent to Sentry by a Sentry customer (e.g., someone using Sentry to monitor their app)? In this case you have to contact the Sentry customer (e.g., the maker of the app). We do not control the data that is sent to us through the Sentry service for the purposes of application monitoring.
Am I included?PII we may collect about you
- PII provided by you and related to your
- Account, profile, and login
- Requests and inquiries
- Purchases
- PII collected from your device and usage
- PII collected from third parties (e.g., social media)
How we use your PII
- To operate our site and service
- To protect and improve our site and service
- To provide customer care and support
- To communicate with you
- For other purposes (that we inform you of at collection)
Third parties who receive your PII
We may disclose your PII to the following type of recipients:
- Subsidiaries and other affiliates
- Service providers
- Partners (go-to-market, analytics)
- Third-party platforms (when you connect them to our service)
- Governmental authorities (where necessary)
- An actual or potential buyer
We use cookies (but not for advertising)
- We do not use advertising or targeting cookies
- We use necessary cookies to run and improve our site and service
- You can disable cookies but this can impact your use or access to certain parts of our site and service
Know your rights
You may have the following rights related to your PII:
- Access, correct, and update
- Object to or restrict processing
- Port over
- Opt-out of marketing
- Be forgotten by Sentry
- Withdraw your consent
- Complain about us
If you have any questions or concerns about your privacy at Sentry, please email us at compliance@sentry.io.
If you are a California resident, see our Supplemental notice.