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Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring

88 mentions on Hacker News by 60 people: 4 stories, 84 comments · first 2012-10-01 · latest 2026-02-07

Mentions per year 88 mentions · busiest year 2016 (13)
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  1. Sentry is indeed, and is open source and self-hostable: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry It’s a pretty large app (I think >1M lines of Python). I ran a self hosted version for several years and found it performant and pretty easy to…
  2. …That was the advantage of the BuSL 1.1 scheme, that those cut-over dates were embedded in the file https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/blob/22.7.0/LICENSE#L19 and https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/blob/22.8.0/LICENSE#L19 is open in 10…
  3. …Here an example from Sentry's master which other than bot triggered reverts are all verified: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/commits/master/
    comment by the_mitsuhiko · 2025-04-25 · in Commit signing in 2023 is kinda wack
  4. Late to the party here but we (Sentry) have been using ECharts since 2018 ( https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/pull/9072 ) and still holding strong!
    comment by billyvg · 2025-04-12 · in Apache ECharts
  5. Likely only a handful of people care, but Sentry hasn't been open source in quite a while https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/blob/24.12.1/LICENSE.md (I'd have to do tag-spelunking to find the last Apache 2 version) Glitchtip is the Sentry…
  6. …(click on pdf for scary pictures) [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41171665 [3] https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/ commit/78bc759d1be4fa6b8ae3e2764e7156e05eb22ab9 [4] https://www.bugsink.com/
    comment by vanschelven · 2024-11-13 · in Sentry just gave $750k to open source projects
  7. > Sentry has never been GPL. That was my mistake, my brain remembering wrong. https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/blob/9.1.2/LICENSE was its last open source license, MITish, right? As for calling it "*source" and saying "oh we're not…
    comment by vetrom · 2024-08-06 · in Sentry is now Fair Source
  8. …free and paid. We have a Django monolith plus some services where all our features are implemented: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry https://github.com/getsentry/relay https://github.com/getsentry/snuba…
  9. …just the sorts of hacks you'd expect to see in a software code base that had evolved over time. https://github.com/getsentry/sentry Here's all the database models: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/tree/master/src/sentry/m... Here's an…
  10. …of value? You don't value an open source error tracking and performance monitoring platform? https://github.com/getsentry/sentry
  11. …turn it into a cheap commodity by releasing it for free. Exactly. A 71-line python script https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/commit/3c2e87573d3bd16f6... was groundbreaking when it came out and the fact that it springboarded into a startup…
  12. https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/pull/60144 -> https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/blob/d4d89e2fa93ad99f13d... If they're going to all this trouble for "ambiguity," I don't know why they wouldn't further extend their custom SPDX…
    comment by mdaniel · 2023-11-17 · in Sentry Relicense Again (FSL)
  13. It's source available under the BSL: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry . After four years it becomes open source (probably to prevent "AWS Elastic Error Handling service(tm)" from becoming a thing) You can still run it for your company…
    comment by easton · 2023-11-01 · in Sentry: From the Beginning
  14. Sentry: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry
  15. Sentry, another BUSL licensed project, seems fine? https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/graphs/contributors
  16. You can take a look at the Python codebase for Sentry over here: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry
  17. That is no longer true, it is source available, becoming open source after a 3 year embargo period: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/blob/23.3.1/LICENSE#L19
    comment by mdaniel · 2023-04-11 · in Supabase Logs: open-source logging server
  18. …only available on SaaS (sentry.io), but we've been developing it in public in our main server repository (github.com/getsentry/sentry) and plan to have proper instructions for self-hosted users soon.
  19. https://github.com/getsentry/sentry https://github.com/WordPress/openverse-api https://github.com/getredash/redash
    comment by pg_law · 2022-12-12 · in Recommend great Django projects
  20. Sentry is open https://github.com/getsentry/sentry
  21. …of being able to merge it back, and, last but not least, their license, I decided against it. [0]: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/issues/32794
    comment by drej · 2022-05-06 · in Sentry.io outage
  22. For sure, and it's also no longer license-friendly: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/blob/22.3.0/LICENSE related: https://blog.sentry.io/2019/11/06/relicensing-sentry and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21466967
  23. …Python, TypeScript, Rust, Postgres, Kafka, Redis, and Clickhouse. You can browse the source here: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry We're hiring for every department on multiple continents, including Software Engineers, Product…
    comment by bentlegen · 2022-02-01 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2022)
  24. https://github.com/getsentry/sentry
  25. Here's what we do at sentry.io :) https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/blob/4cf958535563a6b7443...
  26. …(eg: just the function name). If someone is curious, this is how this is implemented currently: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/blob/9681dedd549b64440fe... For instance it turns `<lambda_7156c3ceaa11256748687ab67e3ef4cd>::operator()`…
    comment by the_mitsuhiko · 2021-10-12 · in Structured Identifiers
  27. …Toronto, Vienna | Software Engineers Sentry develops an open source application monitoring platform (github.com/getsentry/sentry) that helps software teams identify and debug production errors and performance bottlenecks. We have over…
    comment by bentlegen · 2021-09-01 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)
  28. …team at Sentry to update their format, and they essentially told me "we have other priorities" https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/pull/26313 . And that's a relatively simple changes, not the adoption of a whole standard. In addition, as…
    comment by greysteil · 2021-08-25 · in API Tokens: A Tedious Survey
  29. …certainly skew in the direction of exploitation, they are basically duty-bound to do so. [0]: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/blob/master/LICENSE
  30. Open source as well https://github.com/getsentry/sentry
  31. …in to match the native behaviour, along with robust error handling using something like https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/ so you can tell when your code is broken client-side where you would otherwise not have visibility. This is much…
  32. This may not match your description but definitely matches the title - OSS B2B SaaS app: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry They also have a separate repo to help you run it: https://github.com/getsentry/onpremise
  33. For what it's worth, here is an Amazon contribution to Sentry.... https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/pull/4231 Many developers at Amazon love(d) using Sentry, and one wanted to contribute (in a small way).
    comment by _msw_ · 2019-11-08 · in Re-Licensing Sentry
  34. …you are not prevented from using the software in a way that prohibits all commercial use. https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/blob/master/LICENSE#L12
    comment by bentlegen · 2019-11-07 · in Re-Licensing Sentry
  35. While they don't appear super frequent, they cut releases: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/tags Pick one which was cut at a particular point in time and you're done. Doesn't seem that complicated.
    comment by mdpye · 2019-11-06 · in Re-Licensing Sentry
  36. …in Sentry's data scrubber to remove things like credit card numbers, password and API keys: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/blob/95767d455b8004ec4b4...
    comment by Znafon · 2019-09-18 · in Ask HN: Recommend Log Sanitizers
  37. …they would never migrate, so I suppose it's not surprising that they aren't super prepared for it: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/issues/8806#issuecomment... https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/issues/1152#issuecomment... I mean, even…
    comment by mikepurvis · 2019-09-09 · in Sunsetting Python 2
  38. …integrated product, just as any proprietary one, and that is what I am to do with Artemis. [1] - https://github.com/getsentry/sentry [2] - https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost [3] - https://ghost.org/about/
    comment by satvikpendem · 2019-01-04 · in Problems With Open-Source Business Models
  39. …can spend less time debugging and more time building software. Our product is 100% open source ( https://github.com/getsentry/sentry ), yet we've found serious commercial success. We're up to thousands of customers and 80 people across our…
    comment by mclarke · 2018-12-03 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)
  40. …at Sentry (75 people) -- my manager, the CEO, still codes every day and a lot of it is non-trivial: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/graphs/contributors One pattern that seems to work is to write the code if it's easier to explain it in…
    comment by ultrasaurus · 2018-11-01 · in Coding as an Engineering Manager
  41. …that is probably too complex, awful code, and hard to read, but is open source if anyones curious: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/blob/master/src/sentry/u...
    comment by zeeg · 2018-10-04 · in The interesting ideas in Datasette
  42. …and must not be set by customers. That said, we will try to make it less easy to set by accident: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/pull/9516
    comment by the_mitsuhiko · 2018-08-25 · in Remote Code Execution on a Facebook server
  43. …due to the nature of it. Our patch to suppress this information entirely can be found here: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/pull/9516
    comment by mattrobenolt · 2018-08-25 · in Remote Code Execution on a Facebook server
  44. Sentry still requires 1.6: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/blob/ea8fe10d117f5325f9e...
  45. Sentry still requires Django 1.6: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/blob/ea8fe10d117f5325f9e...
  46. The backend for Sentry is a great example of a well-architected Django project: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry
  47. …Full time, on-site https://sentry.io Sentry is error logging. We're 100% BSD-licensed open source ( https://github.com/getsentry/sentry ). We're mostly Python and JS, with a dash of Rust. Sentry is deployed at just about every major…
    comment by ehfeng · 2017-10-02 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)
  48. …it's the best/only approach but it made sense at the time. For example, Sentry does the same: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/ Technically in Django you should put all the "static" into a static folder.
    comment by lfrodrigues · 2017-08-28 · in Django and React/Redux Boilerplate Project
  49. Sentry | San Francisco | Full-time, onsite | https://sentry.io | https://github.com/getsentry/sentry Sentry is an open source crash reporting tool trusted by thousands of organizations to notify them of software errors, and provide them…
    comment by bentlegen · 2017-04-04 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)
  50. …The biggest reason I see people moving to self-hosted options is to keep their data private. 1. https://github.com/getsentry/sentry