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February 2020

Continuous Releases with Travis CI and Sentry

Here at Sentry, we use Travis CI, a continuous integration tool for GitHub that lets us automate our tests and view the results right within each pull request. In this blog post, we’ll walk through a quick example of how to automatically create Sentry Releases with Travis CI when a commit is pushed to your project’s master branch. (Sentry Releases enable some of our best features, like identifying the commits that likely introduced new errors, and much more!)

Get More From Sentry With Our PagerDuty Integration

Much like the pagers of yore, PagerDuty immediately notifies the right person when something goes wrong. That means that no matter when there’s an issue in your application, the right people on your team will hear about it. But as much as we love PagerDuty, we’re not using valuable company time and resources just to tell you about it. We are, however, using valuable company time and resources to tell you all about our new integration with PagerDuty.

How Tackle Creates Customer Trust with Sentry

Regardless of the strength of your product, and the quality of your code, if the end result isn’t happy customers… What’s the point? For Tackle, a software company dedicated to helping ISVs turn the Cloud Marketplaces into repeatable, sustainable, and significant sources of revenue, customer experience is everything. As a software company serving other software companies, Tackle knows exactly what matters most to its customers, which is why they use Sentry.

Building a flexible, realtime data warehouse at Sentry with Beam + Dataflow (Syd Ryan)

Syd Ryan describes two hard problems they've solved at Sentry with streaming Beam pipelines. The first solution combines Postgres change data capture and SQL views to produce a table that appears to be updating in real time within BigQuery. The second solution is aggregating 1000s of events per second and backfilling historical data effectively with Beam's unified batch/streaming interfaces.

Beam in Production: Lessons learned and best practices (Mike Clarke)

Mike describes gotchas and early struggles Sentry hit moving streaming data pipelines off our laptops and into production. He covers some unexpected Beam defaults, detecting schema errors, compare performance between the python & java SDK, and proactively identifying when production pipelines break due to unexpected data.

Motivational Posters Are So '90s, Our Values Are Not

In typical San Francisco startup fashion, we have our own set of “these are the things we stand by” company values. While we don’t aspire to churning out motivational poster-style blurbs, we do want to accurately reflect what’s important to our mission and vision — the principles that drive these forward. And, ok… Yes, these will likely end up on a poster of sorts. Just not the motivational type. And with way better design work.

Dump Them for Sentry, Before They Can Break Up with You

Your customers are messaging, ordering, watching on a mobile device and — without a pause — carrying that experience to the web, desktop, tv, smart speaker, etc. Their expectations are that your service provides one seamless experience that goes with them where ever they are. That’s why you need resolution tools that work across organizational and technical boundaries. Now, maybe you’re tired of using an additional mobile focused tool when Sentry can cover both cases.

Press Release: Sentry Application Monitoring Achieves 200% Increase in Enterprise Growth Scaling to a Total of 18K+ Paid Customers

Sentry, the market leader in application monitoring, announced 200% growth with enterprise customers, scaling to a total of 18,000 paid customers. The company’s cloud, open-source, and single-tenant offerings now support more than 50,000 teams and 1 million developers globally, including Microsoft, Atlassian, Disney, Nike, Cloudflare, Autodesk, PayPal, Reddit, Peloton and many more of the world’s most well-known brands.

How we grew Sentry's monthly active users by rethinking invitations

At its core, Sentry is a tool that alerts you to defects in your production software. But it does more than blast stack traces into your inbox: Sentry provides powerful workflows to help your team determine root cause, triage issues to your team, and keep tabs on ongoing concerns with comments and notifications. These collaborative features can help you resolve problems with your software quickly.

New debugging superpowers with Discover

Sentry makes it pretty easy to connect a customer-facing issue right to the line of code, the release, and even the commit that caused it. At least that’s what developers tell us on Twitter. But you’re rarely working with obvious errors or errors affecting just one user. That’s why we added some new features to Discover and made diagnosing root causes even easier.

How To Improve Application Health with Error Monitoring

Customer support teams are a crucial part of any enterprise service, and in the world of Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Software, these teams need to be focused on supporting critical customer needs, not troubleshooting application errors that have reached the customer. Sentry has proved to be a pivotal part of the toolset for industry-leading GRC software company Reciprocity.

Sentry Integration Platform: Get Insights on the Integrations You Build

Early last year, we launched the Integration Platform to enable any developer to easily create integrations and workflows on top of Sentry. As we continue to build out the platform, we want to give developers visibility into how their integrations are doing. With that, we present the Integration Dashboard!