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Sentry for Development

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Dec 6, 18:00	2023-12-06 18:00:00 UTC	2023-12-06 19:00:00 UTC	2	2
Dec 6, 19:00	2023-12-06 19:00:00 UTC	2023-12-06 20:00:00 UTC	0	0
Dec 6, 20:00	2023-12-06 20:00:00 UTC	2023-12-06 21:00:00 UTC	0	0
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Dec 6, 22:00	2023-12-06 22:00:00 UTC	2023-12-06 23:00:00 UTC	0	0
Dec 6, 23:00	2023-12-06 23:00:00 UTC	2023-12-07 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Dec 7, 00:00	2023-12-07 00:00:00 UTC	2023-12-07 01:00:00 UTC	0	0
Dec 7, 01:00	2023-12-07 01:00:00 UTC	2023-12-07 02:00:00 UTC	0	0
Dec 7, 02:00	2023-12-07 02:00:00 UTC	2023-12-07 03:00:00 UTC	1	1

What Hacker News says

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bentlegen·Dec 7, 2023

I assume you're not talking about this company because there is no such script on spotlightjs.com (easily verifiable), and the docs are also actually in the repository: Example: https://github.com/getsentry/spotlight/blob/main/packages/we...

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zeeg·Dec 6, 2023

Its related in that we (Sentry) built it, and that it uses Sentry's open source SDKs to create its payloads, but its separate in that it doesnt require Sentry's monitoring service to work. Hopefully that helps, and definitely something that is quite tough to clarify but we are still looking to improve upon. Also added a ticket here to track this in case other folks have thoughts: https://github.com/getsentry/spotlight/issues/243

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zeeg·Dec 6, 2023

Its run on your local device - its just a local devserver that allows Sentry's SDKs to pipe data to it. The overlay (the Spotlight UI) then connects to the sidecar via a Server-Sent Events stream (basically a pubsub HTTP stream which operates unidirectional - think websockets but simpler). This is needed due to the distributed nature of services, but our goal is to push this abstraction into dev servers, e.g. Vite. Added a ticket to track improving the docs here: https://github.com/getsentry/spotlight/issues/242

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