@sentry/node

What is @sentry/node?

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.

What are @sentry/node's main functionalities?

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');

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README

Official Sentry SDK for Node

Installation

npm install @sentry/node

# Or yarn
yarn add @sentry/node

Usage

Sentry should be initialized as early in your app as possible. It is essential that you call Sentry.init before you require any other modules in your application, otherwise auto-instrumentation of these modules will not work.

You need to create a file named instrument.js that imports and initializes Sentry:

// CJS Syntax
const Sentry = require('@sentry/node');
// ESM Syntax
import * as Sentry from '@sentry/node';

Sentry.init({
  dsn: '__DSN__',
  // ...
});

You need to require or import the instrument.js file before importing any other modules in your application. This is necessary to ensure that Sentry can automatically instrument all modules in your application:

// Import this first!
import './instrument';

// Now import other modules
import http from 'http';

// Your application code goes here

ESM Support

When running your application in ESM mode, you should use the Node.js --import command line option to ensure that Sentry is loaded before the application code is evaluated.

Adjust the Node.js call for your application to use the --import parameter and point it at instrument.js, which contains your Sentry.init() code:

# Note: This is only available for Node v18.19.0 onwards.
node --import ./instrument.mjs app.mjs

If it is not possible for you to pass the --import flag to the Node.js binary, you can alternatively use the NODE_OPTIONS environment variable as follows:

NODE_OPTIONS="--import ./instrument.mjs" npm run start

Links

• Official SDK Docs

Changelog

8.40.0

Important Changes

• feat(angular): Support Angular 19 (#14398)

  The @sentry/angular SDK can now be used with Angular 19. If you're upgrading to the new Angular version, you might want to migrate from the now deprecated APP_INITIALIZER token to provideAppInitializer. In this case, change the Sentry TraceService initialization in app.config.ts:

  // Angular 18
  export const appConfig: ApplicationConfig = {
    providers: [
      // other providers
      {
        provide: TraceService,
        deps: [Router],
      },
      {
        provide: APP_INITIALIZER,
        useFactory: () => () => {},
        deps: [TraceService],
        multi: true,
      },
    ],
  };
  
  // Angular 19
  export const appConfig: ApplicationConfig = {
    providers: [
      // other providers
      {
        provide: TraceService,
        deps: [Router],
      },
      provideAppInitializer(() => {
        inject(TraceService);
      }),
    ],
  };
  

• feat(core): Deprecate debugIntegration and sessionTimingIntegration (#14363)

  The debugIntegration was deprecated and will be removed in the next major version of the SDK. To log outgoing events, use Hook Options (beforeSend, beforeSendTransaction, ...).

  The sessionTimingIntegration was deprecated and will be removed in the next major version of the SDK. To capture session durations alongside events, use Context (Sentry.setContext()).

• feat(nestjs): Deprecate @WithSentry in favor of @SentryExceptionCaptured (#14323)

  The @WithSentry decorator was deprecated. Use @SentryExceptionCaptured instead. This is a simple renaming and functionality stays identical.

• feat(nestjs): Deprecate SentryTracingInterceptor, SentryService, SentryGlobalGenericFilter, SentryGlobalGraphQLFilter (#14371)

  The SentryTracingInterceptor was deprecated. If you are using @sentry/nestjs you can safely remove any references to the SentryTracingInterceptor. If you are using another package migrate to @sentry/nestjs and remove the SentryTracingInterceptor afterwards.

  The SentryService was deprecated and its functionality was added to Sentry.init. If you are using @sentry/nestjs you can safely remove any references to the SentryService. If you are using another package migrate to @sentry/nestjs and remove the SentryService afterwards.

  The SentryGlobalGenericFilter was deprecated. Use the SentryGlobalFilter instead which is a drop-in replacement.

  The SentryGlobalGraphQLFilter was deprecated. Use the SentryGlobalFilter instead which is a drop-in replacement.

• feat(node): Deprecate nestIntegration and setupNestErrorHandler in favor of using @sentry/nestjs (#14374)

  The nestIntegration and setupNestErrorHandler functions from @sentry/node were deprecated and will be removed in the next major version of the SDK. If you're using @sentry/node in a NestJS application, we recommend switching to our new dedicated @sentry/nestjs package.

Other Changes

• feat(browser): Send additional LCP timing info (#14372)
• feat(replay): Clear event buffer when full and in buffer mode (#14078)
• feat(core): Ensure normalizedRequest on sdkProcessingMetadata is merged (#14315)
• feat(core): Hoist everything from @sentry/utils into @sentry/core (#14382)
• fix(core): Do not throw when trying to fill readonly properties (#14402)
• fix(feedback): Fix __self and __source attributes on feedback nodes (#14356)
• fix(feedback): Fix non-wrapping form title (#14355)
• fix(nextjs): Update check for not found navigation error (#14378)