Pain point · Reliability & bugs · Causes churn
sentry-python clashed with ASGI, causing production memory leak
1 source thread · first seen 2021-06
Summary
A months-long memory leak in a Django Channels app turned out to be caused by sentry-python not working well with ASGI.
- Affects
- Python/Django developers using async ASGI
- Switched to or considered
- Elixir/Phoenix (stack change)
Evidence
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“Turns out an external package, sentry-python, wasn’t playing nice with ASGI”