December 2018 Summaries

Sentry is celebrating the holiday season by highlighting 12 of its partners with an ornament on its Sen-Tree, including GitLab, which has been featured as part of an updated integration with Sentry that includes releases and commit tracking. This integration allows users to streamline issue management, create issues directly from their GitLab account, and resolve issues via commit messages or pull requests. The new feature also exposes suspect commits, which helps identify the root cause of errors. With this integration, users can expect enhanced release overview pages and detailed deploy emails, making it easier to fix problems faster and have a more efficient holiday season.

Twilio is a cloud communications platform that provides building blocks for messaging, voice, and video integration into web and mobile applications. It offers a customizable API that can be integrated with Sentry for alerts, including options for SMS notifications via Twilio. The Sentry-Twilio plugin is easily installable in one line of code and requires four pieces of information to correctly configure, which include the Account SID, Auth Token, SMS From number, and SMS To numbers.

Sentry is highlighting 12 of its partners, including Atlassian, as part of the "12 Days of Partners" celebration during the holiday season. Sentry has released updated integrations with Atlassian's Jira and Bitbucket services to increase observability and decrease setup time for developers. The updates include two-way sync between Jira and Sentry, allowing issue assignments and status updates to be synchronized, as well as integration with Bitbucket to create and link issues directly from Sentry. Additionally, organization-wide settings have been added, allowing teams to apply configurations more efficiently and reducing admin complexity.

Azure DevOps is highlighted as one of Sentry's twelve featured partners during the holiday season, showcasing its updates to improve integration with Sentry, including support for suspect commits, releases feature, issue sync, and easy sign-on via Azure DevOps account.

Sentry is highlighting 12 of its many partners, including Slack, with an ornament on their festive Sen-Tree each day leading up to Christmas. The integration between Sentry and Slack allows users to receive alerts about bugs or issues within their Sentry account, which can be customized to control the types of bugs notified and the Slack channel they appear in. This integration is designed for the "job side" of using Slack, allowing users to focus on work-related tasks while still enjoying some festive fun with GIFs and other holiday-themed content.

Ayesha Omarali, a rising senior from UC Berkeley, joined Sentry as an intern this past summer and fall, bringing her passion for education, prison reform, and international human rights to the company. As a native of the Bay Area, Ayesha's experiences have shaped her interest in applying modern technology to improve government, healthcare, and quality of life globally. In her free time, she enjoys creative pursuits such as playing guitar, video games, and ceramics, often accompanied by her two cats.

It's that time of year again, the holiday season has arrived, and Sentry is celebrating by highlighting twelve of its partners with an ornament hung on a festive Sen-Tree every day. This year, Heroku is featured as one of these partners, and Sentry is highlighting their integration which brings Sentry directly into your release workflow, enabling automatic retrieval of commit data for each new app deployment in Heroku. The integration also provides deploy emails to alert relevant team members immediately when code has gone out. With the SDK installed in your app, you can go from installation to bug fix almost immediately by clicking Install on Heroku.

Datadog is a monitoring service that aggregates metrics from multiple supported integrations, connecting with SaaS and cloud providers, automation tools, and more. It centralizes data for teams to access, monitor, and control it, making it particularly useful for observing and operationalizing cloud and microservices infrastructures. Sentry seamlessly integrates with Datadog, allowing users to capture events and errors directly within their Datadog dashboards and quickly uncover relationships between errors and system performance. The integration can be completed in a matter of minutes and is easy to follow, making it easier to deal with issues as they come up.

Sentry is highlighting its twelve partners, including PagerDuty, with a festive Sen-Tree ornament every day leading up to Christmas. Sentry has a native integration with PagerDuty that enables on-call scheduling, escalations, analytics, and more. The integration allows for customized alert rules within Sentry to determine when to trigger PagerDuty alerts. This process helps teams quickly respond to incidents and return to normal operations. Sentry's integration with PagerDuty enhances incident response and intelligence workflows.

Epsagon and Sentry are two powerful tools that work together to provide a robust workflow for debugging serverless applications, particularly those built on AWS Lambda. Epsagon offers live traces that allow real-time data collection across the application, while Sentry helps monitor errors and fix crashes in real-time. The combination of these tools enables developers to identify and solve issues more efficiently by providing a unified view of the entire application, including detailed error tracking, reliable alerts, and context-aware debugging. By leveraging Epsagon's ability to join multiple traces into transactions and Sentry's features like alert customization, developers can pinpoint the root cause of problems in distributed systems with ease, ultimately improving their application's health status and reducing errors.

The Sen-Tree features a special ornament every day for 12 days, highlighting Sentry's partnerships with developers and tools used in their stacks. Sentry is highlighted as one of the partners on StackShare, a platform that provides a neutral space for developers to share their experience with tools and services. StackShare introduced "Stack Decisions", a feature where users can share examples of how a particular tool helped them solve a problem. Sentry encourages users to use Stack Decisions to share how it helped them solve an actual problem in the past, emphasizing that not writing code can be just as important as writing it.

Wix is a partner of Sentry, highlighting the benefits of using Sentry for tracking and monitoring code errors and crashes in their development environment. Wix Code, which empowers website creators to develop web applications, introduced issues with Sentry reports due to the TDD environment and added code alongside developers. To solve this issue, Wix developed Raven-testkit, a public open-source repository on GitHub, which provides a simple and easy-to-use API for intercepting sent items and determining if errors are bugs that need attention. Sentry has added Raven-testkit to their Tips & Tricks documentation and made it easily installable with one line of code.

GitHub is a widely used source code management and error monitoring solution, and it has partnered with Sentry to provide better integration and features for its users. The partnership aims to make it easier for developers to use GitHub and Sentry together, with improved sign-on, organization-wide setup, and permissioning options. Sentry's integration with GitHub also allows users to access their account more efficiently and streamline their workflow. Additionally, the partnership enables GitHub Enterprise users to take advantage of Sentry's features for the first time. The collaboration between GitHub and Sentry is designed to improve the productivity and efficiency of developers who use both platforms.

Sentry is celebrating the holiday season by highlighting twelve of its partners with an ornament each day on its festive Sen-Tree, starting with Travis CI. Sentry uses Travis CI to run automated tests for its own project and also offers integration with other platforms and languages. Both companies share values of open-source principles, accountability, and continuous improvement, which aligns with Sentry's mission to empower developers. The partnership between Sentry and Travis CI is built on mutual respect and a shared commitment to empowering developers, making it an ideal fit for the 12 Days of Partners series.

Smartcar is a standard API for connected vehicles that enables web and mobile app communication with cars across multiple brands without any hardware. Developers can register their applications on the Smartcar developer dashboard, add a "Connect your car" button to their apps, authenticate users with their cars using the Smartcar authorization flow, and receive a token to make HTTP requests to the car via the Smartcar API. When issues arise, Sentry helps Smartcar resolve errors quickly by providing stack traces, release information, car brand data, and request source details. The platform focuses on minimizing time for developers to log in, register applications, and make first requests to the API, ensuring a seamless experience.

The introduction to creating a safe web service with Actix and Sentry highlights the importance of security in web services, citing Rust's memory safety features as a key factor in creating high-performance web services without buffer overflows. The process of installing Actix, creating a server, and integrating Sentry for error monitoring is explained, including how to handle errors and extractors to validate request data. Additionally, customizing the context with breadcrumbs and scopes is demonstrated, showcasing the flexibility of the Sentry integration with Actix.