Shipping clean, safe, and correct code is a high priority for engineering at Sentry. Bugs are best discovered before they hit production because afterward they have real user impact and can drain even a high-performing team’s resources quickly. The later in the development cycle a bug is found, the longer it will take to fix.
You probably use many tools to get you through the day. Do you ever wonder what tools get other people through their days? In our Tools This Engineer Uses series, we explore the routines, systems, and tools (of course) that people rely on to solve problems and accomplish goals.
We’re enhancing the existing Sentry Java SDK with our new Java agent. The thing is — it’s still in beta, and we need your feedback. Once downloaded, the agent will enhance your application stack traces on Sentry by adding the names and values of local variables to each frame. Specifically, the agent provides much more detail about the current state of the application at the time of the error than you would usually have.
On this episode of Exception Perceptions, GitHub Community Engineer Bex Warner stopped by to chat about Probot, a framework for automating GitHub. Watch the episode, and then read what else Bex has to say about the magic of Probot. Also, check out this example of what Sentry has built with Probot.
We don’t know how this malicious code was injected on Newegg’s billing page, but we do know how Newegg could have drastically decreased the likelihood of a breach.
Since you’re reading this blog, you’re likely aware of the most critical part of using Sentry: our client SDKs. We shared previously that we were updating Sentry’s SDKs, and now we’re on the verge of those updates becoming the default. This affects a few of our most popular platforms: Python and JavaScript, plus we also threw .NET and Rust into the mix for good measure.
Sentry is updating our key integrations for Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS). With these tightly-woven integrations, developers (like you) can unlock enhanced release tracking, informative deploy emails, and assignee suggestions for new errors. Route alerts to the right person based on the Azure DevOps commit that caused the issue, cutting remediation time to five minutes.
Great news: we’ve updated the Sentry’s GitHub and GitHub Enterprise integrations! With the growing relationship between GitHub and Microsoft’s developer stack, Sentry will help users save time, squash bugs, and work more efficiently through the many different parts of the development workflow. The features you already use in our existing integration are still there, including resolve via commit or via pull request, issue tracking, and suggested assignee via commit.
Sentry is rolling out additional support and features for Jira and Bitbucket, including two-way sync and org-level settings. These updated integrations will improve the experience for any developer who has Sentry and Atlassian in their workflow by increasing observability into their applications and decreasing setup time.
