Sentry integration

Sentry integration

Sentry is a service that helps you monitor and fix crashes in real time. The server is in Python, but it contains a full API for sending events from any language, in any application.

Sentry service configuration

SaaS

1. Navigate to https://sentry.io and create a new account
2. Go to step 10 of the Self-Hosted Sentry instruction

Self-Hosted Sentry

1. Download sentry release from GitHub.
2. Extract the archive to the /opt directory for example. Sentry will load config from this directory.
3. Run ./install.sh.
4. Update SMTP server config in sentry/config.yml.
5. For integration with 3th-party services (GitHub/Slack) update corresponding field in sentry/config.yml.
6. Use docker-compose up -d to start the sentry server.
7. Setup HTTPS reverse proxy (optional, but required for integration with Slack, etc).
8. Navigate to http://<sentry_host>:9000/ or HTTPS proxy (if available).
9. Accept EULA and finish server configuration.
10. Create new Ruby project http://<sentry_host>:9000/organizations/sentry/projects/new/.
11. Copy the DSN value from the 'configuration' section.
12. Set SENTRY_DSN environment via .env or .bashrc files or any other way.