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sentry
Python2012–2026
getsentry / sentry

sentry

Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring

GitHub

Where it is used

  • GitLab — GitLab uses Sentry to monitor frontend errors and performance on GitLab.com. Their production site is configured to send data to a GitLab-managed Sentry instance. Source

What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 5:03:38 AM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year88 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-10-01 16:28:41 UTC to 2026-02-07 15:56:46 UTC.

0510152012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 0 submissions, 7 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 0 submissions, 7 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 13 mentions; 0 submissions, 13 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 0 submissions, 8 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 1 submissions, 6 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 0 submissions, 8 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC707
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC707
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC13013
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC808
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC716
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC808
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

From the project README

An excerpt from the repository, fetched Nov 13, 2026.

Read the project’s introduction
Users and logs provide clues. Sentry provides answers. What's Sentry? Sentry is the debugging platform that helps every developer detect, trace, and fix issues. Code breaks, fix it faster. Official Sentry SDKs Resources Documentation Discussions (Bugs, feature requests, general questions) Discord Contributing Bug Tracker Code Transifex (Translate Sentry!)
Read the full README on GitHub

What Hacker News says

7 sources
SEJeff·Oct 15, 2013
Seriously take a look at Sentry[1]. It supports just about every major language out there, is open source and used on some very large web properties (disqus, which powers comments for cnn.com amongst others), and is just generally awesome software. If you don't want to set it up yourself, use their hosted version[2]. If you are a .net / C# guy check out their csharp raven client[3]. Raven is the client to sentry which automatically sends all exceptions. [1] https://github.com/getsentry/sentry [2] https://getsentry.com/welcome [3] https://github.com/getsentry/raven-csharp
In Stack Exchange's monitoring system is now open source
PascalW·Jul 16, 2013
We've been using Airbrake also, have been experiencing quite some issues with exceptions not showing up and slowness of the web ui. I've been using Sentry [1] lately and it has been excellent. Only issue has been that using SSL from Java was quite troublesome as their certificate is not supported by the JVM by default [2]. [1] http://getsentry.com [2] https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/issues/903 Edit: Rollbar looks interesting. Too bad they don't have an API for Java.
In Ask HN: What exception tracking service do you use?
grosskur·Jun 22, 2013
False dichotomy---bundling dependencies doesn't preclude integrating well with the host system. See Basho's latest Riak package for Ubuntu 12.04: http://s3.amazonaws.com/downloads.basho.com/riak/1.3/1.3.2/u... It integrates well with the host system (init script, "riak" user/group, data in /var/lib/riak, logs in /var/log/riak, etc.) and bundles dependencies in /usr/lib/riak. In my experience, bundling dependencies is often the only practical way to install a complex app. Take Sentry as another example: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry The current version (5.4.5) depends on 37 Python packages: BeautifulSoup==3.2.1 Django==1.4.5 Pygments==1.6 South==0.7.6 amqp==1.0.11 anyjson==0.3.3 billiard==2.7.3.28 celery==3.0.19 cssutils==0.9.10 distribute==0.6.31 django-celery==3.0.17 django-crispy-forms==1.2.8 django-index
Read the rest
er==0.3.0 django-paging==0.2.5 django-picklefield==0.3.0 django-social-auth==0.7.23 django-social-auth-trello==1.0.3 django-static-compiler==0.3.3 django-templatetag-sugar==0.1 gunicorn==0.17.4 httpagentparser==1.2.2 httplib2==0.8 kombu==2.5.10 logan==0.5.6 nydus==0.10.6 oauth2==1.5.211 pynliner==0.4.0 python-dateutil==1.5 python-openid==2.2.5 pytz==2013b raven==3.3.11 redis==2.7.6 sentry==5.4.5 setproctitle==1.1.7 simplejson==3.1.3 six==1.3.0 wsgiref==0.1.2 Ruby or Node apps have dependency trees of similar or greater size. It takes an enormous amount of effort to roll all of these as individual packages (yes, I've done it) and it's a colossal waste of time once you realize you can have a working package in under a minute with virtualenv, pip, and fpm: $ virtualenv --distribute /opt/sentry $ /opt/sentry/bin/pip install sentry $ fpm -n sentry -v 5.4.5 -s dir -t deb /opt/sentry
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