@sentry/node
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Package description
The @sentry/node package is a tool designed for real-time monitoring and fixing crashes in Node.js applications. It provides error tracking and performance monitoring, helping developers to quickly identify, diagnose, and fix problems in their applications. Sentry integrates seamlessly with your existing codebase, offering a range of features to enhance application reliability and user experience.
Error Tracking
Automatically capture exceptions and errors in your Node.js applications. The code initializes Sentry with your project's DSN and demonstrates how an uncaught exception is automatically reported to Sentry.
const Sentry = require('@sentry/node');
Sentry.init({ dsn: 'YOUR_DSN_HERE' });
app.get('/', function mainHandler(req, res) {
throw new Error('Broke!');
});Performance Monitoring
Track the performance of your application, including request times and slow operations. This code sample starts a transaction, simulates an operation with a timeout, and then finishes the transaction, which is then reported to Sentry for performance analysis.
const Sentry = require('@sentry/node');
const transaction = Sentry.startTransaction({ op: 'test', name: 'My First Test Transaction' });
setTimeout(() => {
transaction.finish();
}, 99);Custom Event Capturing
Send custom messages or events to Sentry. This is useful for capturing non-exception events that are significant for your application's health monitoring and diagnostics.
const Sentry = require('@sentry/node');
Sentry.captureMessage('Something went wrong', 'error');Bugsnag provides error monitoring for web, mobile, and server applications. Similar to @sentry/node, it offers real-time error reporting and allows for detailed error diagnostics and performance monitoring. Bugsnag differentiates itself with features tailored to mobile app monitoring.
Rollbar offers real-time error tracking and debugging tools for developers. Like @sentry/node, it supports multiple programming languages and frameworks, including Node.js. Rollbar emphasizes its ability to help teams with workflow integrations and automated error grouping for efficient management.
Raygun provides crash reporting, real-user monitoring, and deployment tracking. It's similar to @sentry/node in its core functionalities of error tracking and performance monitoring but also offers unique features like user journey tracking and version comparisons to understand the impact of deployments.
Changelog
8.0.0-alpha.7
This is the seventh alpha release of Sentry JavaScript SDK v8, which includes a variety of breaking changes.
Read the in-depth migration guide to find out how to address any breaking changes in your code.
We now use OpenTelemetry under the hood to power performance monitoring and tracing in the Next.js SDK.
In v8, you cannot initialize the SDK anymore via Gatsby plugin options. Instead, you have to configure the SDK in a
sentry.config.js file.
We also removed the automatic initialization of browserTracingIntegration. You now have to add this integration
yourself.
scope.setSpan() and scope.getSpan() methods (#11051)runtime and vercel tags (#11291)prismaIntegration by default (#11265)tracePropagationTargets are respected (#11285)SentrySpanProcessor (#11273)instrumentation.ts) (#11266)suppressTracing to avoid capturing otel spans (#11288)startSpan callback throws (#11170)Readme
npm install @sentry/node
# Or yarn
yarn add @sentry/node
// CJS Syntax
const Sentry = require('@sentry/node');
// ESM Syntax
import * as Sentry from '@sentry/node';
Sentry.init({
dsn: '__DSN__',
// ...
});
Note that it is necessary to initialize Sentry before you import any package that may be instrumented by us.
More information on how to set up Sentry for Node in v8.
Due to the way OpenTelemetry handles instrumentation, this only works out of the box for CommonJS (require)
applications.
There is experimental support for running OpenTelemetry with ESM ("type": "module"):
node --experimental-loader=@opentelemetry/instrumentation/hook.mjs ./app.js
You'll need to install @opentelemetry/instrumentation in your app to ensure this works.
See OpenTelemetry Instrumentation Docs for details on this - but note that this is a) experimental, and b) does not work with all integrations.
FAQs
Sentry Node SDK using OpenTelemetry for performance instrumentation
The npm package @sentry/node receives a total of 4,974,777 weekly downloads. As such, @sentry/node popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @sentry/node demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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