Sentry
sentry.io · Observability and monitoring
Application error tracking and performance monitoring for developers.
66 items · 78 source threads · 2 source types · updated 2026-09
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Pain points 38
| Item | Area | Severity | Support | Last seen |
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| Self-hosted Sentry runs around 70 containers, hard to debug A self-hosted Sentry deployment requires dozens of containers for what should be one piece of software, making debugging hard and annoying. Affects: Sysadmin running self-hosted Sentry via Ansible |
Self-hosting & upgrades | Blocks work | 4 sources | 2026-08 |
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| Transaction counts are zero in all projects after self-hosted upgrade After upgrading a self-hosted instance through two versions, the number of transactions shows zero in all projects. Affects: Self-hosted admin upgrading from 21.11.0 to 24.4.0 |
Self-hosting & upgrades | Causes churn | 3 sources | 2026-01 |
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| Number of Errors alert never fires although conditions are met An alert defined on number of errors does not trigger even when conditions are clearly met in testing on a self-hosted version. Affects: Self-hosted 25.8.0 admin |
Reliability & bugs | Blocks work | 3 sources | 2025-10 |
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| Fresh pip install of Sentry 9 shows error with nowhere to find logs After a clean install the user gets a generic error page and cannot find documented info on where logs are to diagnose it. Affects: New self-hosted installer |
Setup & onboarding | Causes churn | 2 sources | 2019-04 |
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| Move to restrictive license seen as hurting Sentry's open source claims A commenter objects that Sentry moved to a more restrictive license for revenue while still presenting the product as part of the free software movement. Affects: Open source advocates |
Other | Annoyance | 2 sources | 2023-12 |
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| sentry-python clashed with ASGI, causing production memory leak Affects: Python/Django developers using async ASGI |
Reliability & bugs | Causes churn | 1 source | 2021-06 |
| Errors and traces live in disconnected tools, hampering root cause Affects: Small dev team |
Reporting & analytics | Blocks work | 1 source | 2026-05 |
| Sentry browser telemetry blocks doing work with blockers on Affects: Employee at a company using Sentry for backend metrics |
Permissions & security | Blocks work | 1 source | 2026-02 |
| Resolved in next release picks the wrong release, causing false regressions Affects: iOS teams using release tracking |
Reliability & bugs | Blocks work | 1 source | 2025-04 |
| Cron check-ins linked to the next day cause missed alerts Affects: Teams using cron monitoring |
Reliability & bugs | Blocks work | 1 source | 2025-01 |
| Regression does not sync status back to linked Jira issue Affects: Teams syncing issue status with Jira |
Integrations | Blocks work | 1 source | 2024-05 |
| Jira app cannot be installed for organisations in the EU region Affects: EU-region organisations |
Integrations | Blocks work | 1 source | 2024-04 |
| MS Teams alert action missing after completing integration setup Affects: Teams users |
Integrations | Blocks work | 1 source | 2024-03 |
| Google SSO setup page never loads in organization auth settings Affects: Org admins setting up SSO |
Setup & onboarding | Blocks work | 1 source | 2024-02 |
| New Sentry terms of service allow machine learning training use Affects: Sentry customers |
Permissions & security | Blocks work | 1 source | 2024-01 |
| Data scrubbing replaces fields with [Filtered] with no explanation Affects: Developers shaping log messages |
Permissions & security | Blocks work | 1 source | 2023-11 |
| User feedback dialog blocked when COOP/COEP headers are set Affects: Web developers with cross-origin isolation |
Reliability & bugs | Blocks work | 1 source | 2023-05 |
| Alert test notifications inconsistently create Jira issues Affects: Teams using Jira Cloud integration |
Integrations | Blocks work | 1 source | 2023-03 |
| Heroku integration instructions rely on a removed deployhooks add-on Affects: Heroku users |
Integrations | Blocks work | 1 source | 2022-11 |
| Self-hosted backup export and import does not work Affects: Self-hosted admins migrating or backing up |
Data export & migration | Blocks work | 1 source | 2022-07 |
| GitLab integration token expires and breaks commit fetching Affects: Teams using sentry.io with gitlab.com |
Integrations | Blocks work | 1 source | 2022-05 |
| Self-hosted Sentry stops processing events weekly, queues grow Affects: Team self-hosting Sentry with docker-compose for native app crash reporting |
Self-hosting & upgrades | Blocks work | 1 source | 2022-05 |
| Source maps work for a while then suddenly stop working Affects: Web teams using webpack source maps |
Reliability & bugs | Blocks work | 1 source | 2021-02 |
| Webhooks do not fire for a Flutter project Affects: Multi-platform teams using webhooks |
Reliability & bugs | Blocks work | 1 source | 2020-12 |
| JavaScript loader script is a no-op warning stub on-prem Affects: On-prem Sentry users adopting the JS loader |
Documentation | Blocks work | 1 source | 2020-11 |
| GitHub integration does not register as installed in Sentry | Integrations | Blocks work | 1 source | 2018-09 |
| Slack integration OAuth fails on self-hosted install Affects: Self-hosted Sentry admin |
Integrations | Blocks work | 1 source | 2018-07 |
| Slack integration cannot connect to private channels Affects: Teams using private Slack channels |
Integrations | Blocks work | 1 source | 2018-04 |
| Rate limiting has no effect after upgrading past 8.13.0 Affects: Self-hosted admins |
Reliability & bugs | Blocks work | 1 source | 2017-04 |
| Sentry supports only TLS for SMTP, not SSL, and does not document it Affects: Self-hosted admins configuring email |
Documentation | Blocks work | 1 source | 2016-10 |
| Email notification noise causes teams to tune out real issues Affects: Teams with client-side JavaScript projects |
Reporting & analytics | Blocks work | 1 source | 2016-02 |
| captureMessage events get a title different from the message Affects: React Native and other SDK users |
Reliability & bugs | Annoyance | 1 source | 2025-02 |
| Replay shows the error before the touch event that caused it Affects: React Native teams using Session Replay |
Reporting & analytics | Annoyance | 1 source | 2024-06 |
| New Slack issue alerts take up much more screen space Affects: Slack alert channel users |
Customization | Annoyance | 1 source | 2024-02 |
| Delete and discard feature fails about half the time self-hosted Affects: Self-hosted 23.8.0 users |
Reliability & bugs | Annoyance | 1 source | 2023-09 |
| Native crash events poorly deduplicated, stack traces vary by platform Affects: Developers of native desktop applications |
Reliability & bugs | Annoyance | 1 source | 2022-05 |
| Release cannot be deleted after its issues were removed | Reliability & bugs | Annoyance | 1 source | 2017-07 |
| Large Python integers are truncated in the UI Affects: Python app developers |
Reliability & bugs | Annoyance | 1 source | 2017-06 |
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Feature requests 24
| Item | Area | Severity | Support | Last seen |
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| Global Slack integration breaks Discord's Slack-compatible webhooks The new global integration uses Slack's OAuth API rather than webhooks, so an existing Discord setup using Slack-compatible webhooks no longer fits. Affects: Teams using Discord for alerts |
Integrations | Blocks work | 4 sources | 2023-05 |
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| Ingest Reporting API (Reporting-Endpoints) reports The user asks whether Sentry will ingest and display reports from Chrome's newer Reporting API for CSP violations. Affects: Web security teams |
Integrations | Annoyance | 2 sources | 2022-09 |
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| No way to delete logs individually or in bulk Logs cannot be deleted from Sentry; in extreme cases the only option is deleting the whole project. |
Data export & migration | Blocks work | 1 source | 2025-10 |
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| Perforce source control integration Game and other studios use Perforce, so features such as suggested owners and source snippets are unavailable without a Perforce integration. Affects: Software and game studios using Perforce |
Integrations | Blocks work | 1 source | 2024-04 |
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| Split release health statistics by OS or browser A game studio shipping iOS and Android builds under one project cannot compare crash-free rates by OS because release health lacks OS filtering. Affects: Game studio shipping iOS and Android under one project |
Reporting & analytics | Blocks work | 1 source | 2023-10 |
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| Restrict the Jira Cloud app to specific Jira projects Affects: Commercial customer using Jira Cloud |
Integrations | Blocks work | 1 source | 2023-03 |
| Support exception groups such as AggregateException Affects: Developers using async and aggregate errors |
Reporting & analytics | Blocks work | 1 source | 2022-08 |
| Alert rules shared across about 100 projects Affects: Admin of an on-premises instance with ~100 projects |
Customization | Blocks work | 1 source | 2021-11 |
| Crash reports in Sentry lack context to debug macOS Swift crashes Affects: Indie macOS app developer |
Reporting & analytics | Blocks work | 1 source | 2021-09 |
| Integrate on-prem Sentry with on-prem Azure DevOps Server Affects: Companies running in-house data centers |
Integrations | Blocks work | 1 source | 2020-09 |
| Mention a Slack user or user group in alerts Affects: Teams with on-call rotations in Slack |
Integrations | Blocks work | 1 source | 2020-06 |
| Support OIDC or OAuth 2.0 single sign-on for self-hosted Affects: Self-hosting organisations needing internal SSO |
Permissions & security | Blocks work | 1 source | 2020-03 |
| Show only events matching the filter in Issues list counts Affects: Mobile app teams releasing new versions |
Reporting & analytics | Blocks work | 1 source | 2019-10 |
| Support GitLab or generic Git repos for release commits Affects: Teams using GitLab |
Integrations | Blocks work | 1 source | 2017-06 |
| Seer autofix for Bitbucket repositories Affects: Bitbucket users |
Integrations | Annoyance | 1 source | 2025-05 |
| Embeddable URLs for dashboard widgets and saved queries Affects: Teams building cross-tool dashboards |
Integrations | Annoyance | 1 source | 2023-10 |
| Dynamic fields when Sentry auto-creates Jira tasks Affects: Teams using Jira alert actions |
Integrations | Annoyance | 1 source | 2023-05 |
| Export or embed Session Replays in Jira, Asana, Linear Affects: Teams tracking work in Jira, Asana, Linear |
Data export & migration | Annoyance | 1 source | 2023-02 |
| Inbound filters based on tag values | Customization | Annoyance | 1 source | 2020-12 |
| Default rate limit applied to all projects Affects: Self-hosted admins |
Customization | Annoyance | 1 source | 2020-05 |
| Ignore an issue only in a specific environment Affects: Developers with a recurring build-process error |
Customization | Annoyance | 1 source | 2019-03 |
| Alert rule condition for new user feedback Affects: Sentry users who collect user feedback |
Reporting & analytics | Annoyance | 1 source | 2017-03 |
| Search bar cannot exclude events or use OR | UI & usability | Annoyance | 1 source | 2016-02 |
| Keyboard shortcuts for navigating and closing events | UI & usability | Annoyance | 1 source | 2013-02 |
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Workarounds 3
| Item | Area | Severity | Support | Last seen |
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| Self-hosted default SeaweedFS storage fails under concurrent writes The default SeaweedFS object storage in an on-prem Sentry setup kept failing under concurrent writes, so the user swapped it for Garage, which worked reliably. Affects: Teams running Sentry on-prem |
Self-hosting & upgrades | Blocks work | 2 sources | 2026-09 |
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| Sentry lacked mobile crash support, team built a custom processor At the time the author's company needed mobile crash reporting, Sentry did not support it, so they built their own processor and SDKs that forward events to an on-prem Sentry. Affects: Large company with in-house mobile crash reporting |
Other | Blocks work | 1 source | 2019-06 |
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| React Native needs custom scripts to upload source maps to Sentry Crash reporting in a React Native app only became usable after wiring up sentry.io and writing custom build scripts to upload source maps for readable JavaScript errors. Affects: Mobile teams building React Native apps |
Setup & onboarding | Blocks work | 1 source | 2017-03 |
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Switching reasons 1
| Item | Area | Severity | Support | Last seen |
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| Paying $800 for Sentry plus New Relic still left a bug hard to find The author spent two days finding a locking bug while paying a high bill for Sentry and another for New Relic. They stopped paying for both and built their own tool. Affects: Small team supporting customers with power users |
Pricing & plans | Causes churn | 1 source | 2026-05 |
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