Troubleshooting Spring Boot Applications with Sentry

The Sentry SDK for Java offers a comprehensive integration with Spring Boot applications, providing seamless error reporting, performance monitoring, and transactional support. To configure the Sentry SDK, developers can use the sentry-spring-boot-starter dependency and set configuration properties such as `sentry.dsn`, `sentry.debug`, `sentry.environment`, and `sentry.release`. The SDK also provides auto-configuration for Logback and integration with Spring MVC, where each incoming HTTP request is turned into a transaction. Additionally, the SDK offers performance monitoring capabilities, including tracing and sampling, which can be configured using properties such as `sentry.traces-sample-rate` and registering custom samplers. Developers can also use annotations such as `@SentrySpan` and `@SentryTransaction` to mark method executions as transactions or spans, providing more control over the transactional behavior. The Java SDK contains integrations with various logging frameworks, including Log4j2, JUL, and traditional non-Spring servlet applications, making it a versatile tool for developers building Java-based applications.