Tracing

Track the complete, end-to-end path of a request from the originating user interaction across systems and services to pinpoint the specific function or API call causing the problem.

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Tracing for Developers

Get a unified and connected view of your application from frontend to backend and across services. Tracing allows you to understand how interconnected systems interact and where complex issues originate.

With the Trace Explorer (currently in beta), search for traces matching specific criteria, like a specific route, API endpoint, or user ID.

With the Trace View, get full context into what happened when an error or performance issue occurred, making it easier and faster to debug slow services, identify related errors, and root out bottlenecks. Get to the Trace View easily, either from the correlated metrics, specific issue, or the Trace Explorer.

Getting started with Sentry is simple

We support every technology (except the ones we don't).
Get started with just a few lines of code.

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import * as Sentry from '@sentry/nextjs'; Sentry.init({ dsn: 'https://examplePublicKey@o0.ingest.sentry.io/0', // We recommend adjusting this value in production, or using `tracesSampler` // for finer control tracesSampleRate: 1.0, });

That's it. Check out our documentation to ensure you have the latest instructions.

FAQs

Tracing provides a connected view of related errors and transactions by capturing interactions among your software systems. With Tracing, Sentry tracks your software performance and displays the impact of errors across multiple systems.

Tracing is available for all languages and platforms that Sentry supports. See the full list here.

To enable Tracing capabilities you need to purchase spans. See docs for pricing details.

To use Tracing, you will first need a Sentry account. If you don’t have a Sentry account, you can create one here. Then, follow the instructions in our docs to use Tracing.

Yes, you can configure your OpenTelemetry SDK to send traces and spans to Sentry. Learn more.

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