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sentry
Python2012–2026
getsentry / sentry

sentry

Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring

60Distinct people
88Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
45.8KGitHub stars
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, 4:01:40 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

13 sources
Sentry | http://getsentry.com | Full-time in San Francisco Come help us develop our open source exception monitoring service: http://github.com/getsentry/sentry. Sentry is a small team (just 13 people) with a beloved product, a long list of notable customers, strong and growing revenue, and a commitment to open source. We've also just raised $9m from NEA and Accel[1]. We have a bunch of different openings in engineering, customer success, and product marketing. Find out more here: https://getsentry.com/jobs We're particularly looking for a strong mobile developer (iOS and/or Android) who can take ownership of mobile at Sentry. This means both developing our mobile SDKs, and driving the mobile experience of our product. If any of this interests you please check out our jobs page (https://getsentry.com/jobs), or reach out to me directly to
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find out more: ben (at) getsentry.com. [1] https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/23/real-time-crash-reporting-...
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)
Sentry | http://getsentry.com | Full-time in San Francisco Come help us develop our open source exception monitoring service: http://github.com/getsentry/sentry. Sentry is a small team (just 13 people) with a beloved product, a long list of notable customers, strong and growing revenue, and a commitment to open source. We've just opened up positions for a bunch of important roles: * Node.js Engineer * Mobile Platform Lead * Infrastructure Engineer * Support Engineer * Product Engineer (Front-end, React) * Customer Success * Community and Events You can find more about our roles here: http://getsentry.com/jobs, or reach out to me directly to find out more: ben (at) getsentry.com.
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)
Sentry | http://getsentry.com | Full-time in San Francisco Come help us develop our open source exception monitoring service: http://github.com/getsentry/sentry. Sentry is a small team (just 11 people) with a beloved product, a long list of notable customers, strong and growing revenue, and a commitment to open source. We're particularly interested in hiring: * An experienced JavaScript engineer – our client front-end is written using React, Flux patterns, and assembled using Webpack * Infrastructure/back-end engineers with a penchant for Python and scaling You can find generic boiler text about our roles here: http://getsentry.com/jobs, or reach out to me directly to find out more: ben (at) getsentry.com.
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)
Sentry | San Francisco | FULL-TIME ONSITE Hiring for: Growth engineer, product engineer, developer community/advocate, and customer success We're Sentry. 100% open source error logging tool (github.com/getsentry/sentry). Team of 9, almost entirely engineering today (https://getsentry.com/about/). We're used by virtually every major tech company (Dropbox, Airbnb, Stripe, Microsoft, etc) and receive close to a billion errors every month. I'm not a recruiter, so probably forgetting to write something here. If you have questions, I'm eric@getsentry.com.
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2016)
Sentry | http://getsentry.com | Full-time in San Francisco Come help us develop our open source exception monitoring service: http://github.com/getsentry/sentry. Sentry is a small team (just 9 people) with a beloved product, a long list of notable customers, strong and growing revenue, and a commitment to open source. This is a really good time to be a part of what we're building. We're particularly interested in hiring an experienced JavaScript engineer to help work on Sentry's React + Flux front-end, and contribute to our JavaScript client SDKs (raven-js, raven-node). Full list of roles is available here: http://getsentry.com/jobs, or reach out to me directly to find out more: ben (at) getsentry.com.
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016)
Sentry | http://getsentry.com | Full-time in San Francisco Come help us develop our open source exception monitoring service: http://github.com/getsentry/sentry. Sentry is a small team (just 7 people) with a beloved product, a long list of notable customers, strong and growing revenue, and a commitment to open source. This is a really good time to be a part of what we're building. We're especially interested in polyglot programmers who can help us develop our core product in Python and JavaScript, but also work on new client integrations for platforms like .NET and iOS. Full list of roles is available here: http://getsentry.com/jobs, or reach out to me directly to find out more: ben (at) getsentry.com.
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)

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