16 engineers on Hacker News describe using Sentry first-hand: 6 endorse it, 0 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“Sentry is invaluable to get app crashes in prod, and I wouldn't want any PM deciding whether we set up sentry or not.”
endorse · production · tuetuopay · 2023-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run the on-prem version at work, and the only time I've seen anything like this is when there weren't different scopes”
endorse · production · sofixa · 2021-10-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I just hook sentry or newrelic and they'll log exception stack traces that I can use”
endorse · production · neurostimulant · 2021-01-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use senrty and we rely on many of the features you miss out on by just posting minimal exception information.”
endorse · production · dr0verride · 2019-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use them heavily and it's been really helpful identifying production issues that miss testing.”
endorse · production · shrumm · 2018-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I found Sentry easy to self-host. They have pretty good docs”
endorse · personal · helb · 2017-10-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It has worked (for us at least) pretty well to reduce the number of unhandled errors that make their way into Sentry.”
neutral · production · travisd · 2026-11-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“if it ever happens log it in sentry and we'll have a look by then”
neutral · production · toasty228 · 2026-09-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“how to use a sentry trace id to find a otel traceparent, where my ALB is”
neutral · production · hadlock · 2026-09-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“all of ours logs to Datadog, Sentry, Snowflake, and more.”
neutral · production · dukeyukey · 2025-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I would rather dig through Sentry for an AssertionError than propagate a bad state”
neutral · production · rikthevik · 2024-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm also invoking sentry-cli to obtain all source code used”
neutral · production · malkia · 2024-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We activated Slack, Sentry and GitLab integrations too.”
neutral · production · new_here · 2022-06-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Gmail, Sentry, Freshchat, Ploi etc, integrate them all and filter out what's critical.”
neutral · production · iKlsR · 2020-02-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use Sentry instead of a hand rolled exception tracking system”
neutral · production · vendiddy · 2019-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We mainly started with services we use, we'll be adding more rapidly”
neutral · production · triaged · 2013-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?