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Re: Sentry 8 is here

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Post by zeeg »

jbrooksuk wrote: post #9

Awesome, I've just upgraded our instance to 7.7.0 - when will 8.0 be available on Pip? Will Sentry ever be useful for activities such as tracking occurrences of an event?

Our goal is the next 60 days, but the realist in me is saying "sometime this year". We have an ever changing list of things we want to accomplish still as part of the 8.0 push:

https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/milestones/8.0%20Release

Regarding future capabilities of Sentry, we're not quite ready to talk about most of it publicly yet, but we'll making some drastic improvements in the very near future.

Re: Sentry 8 is here

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Post by buremba »

zeeg wrote: post #2

David from Sentry here. We're hoping to do a sort-of AMA in the future about rebuilding Sentry (and the open source approach), but if anyone has any questions about the new version I'm happy to answer them.

Do you have any numbers about what percentage of your customers running Sentry on their own nodes instead of just using cloud version that you provide?

Re: Sentry 8 is here

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Post by zeeg »

buremba wrote: post #12
zeeg wrote: post #2

David from Sentry here. We're hoping to do a sort-of AMA in the future about rebuilding Sentry (and the open source approach), but if anyone has any questions about the new version I'm happy to answer them.

Do you have any numbers about what percentage of your customers running Sentry on their own nodes instead of just using cloud version that you provide?

We do have a beacon that reports anonymous statistics to us as well as giving us an estimate on unique installations. That said, it's an optional feature, and its only in newer versions. One thing that is generally true is many companies don't update frequently so we end up not getting a large chunk of data due to them running on older versions.

If take only our data (ignoring anyone who isnt actively reporting to us), It's a fairly close 50% split of on-premise companies to hosted customers.

That said, our estimate is its more around 30% of users run off of getsentry.com, and the other chunk runs on-premise.

Re: Sentry 8 is here

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Post by wheaties »

zeeg wrote: post #2

David from Sentry here. We're hoping to do a sort-of AMA in the future about rebuilding Sentry (and the open source approach), but if anyone has any questions about the new version I'm happy to answer them.

Do you plan on supporting JVM based languages?

Re: Sentry 8 is here

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Post by nathancahill »

Sentry's approach to open source is incredible. Their team/top contributors on Github is basically a who's who of the Python web scene.

Happy to have been using Sentry for a long time now. Excited for the new release.

Re: Sentry 8 is here

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Post by conesus »

zeeg wrote: post #2

David from Sentry here. We're hoping to do a sort-of AMA in the future about rebuilding Sentry (and the open source approach), but if anyone has any questions about the new version I'm happy to answer them.

David, I've been a Sentry customer for years and I rely on it. But one feature I miss dearly is having a 1 day graph that shows me the health of my servers based on a single count.

A few months ago the top-right dashboard lost its total count and I had to rely on hovering over the graph bars to see what the numbers looked like. I generate a hundred exceptions in a day (on a good day), and I like to use that count to gauge if anything is wrong. A bad day can generate hundreds of exceptions and I like to have an easy way to spot those days.

The dashboard view kind of gives that, but there is no single number of exceptions that I can use. And I greatly miss being able to have that count and graph on the same list of exceptions.

Can you bring back that 1 day graph, complete with a total exception count?

Re: Sentry 8 is here

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Post by zeeg »

conesus wrote: post #16
zeeg wrote: post #2

David from Sentry here. We're hoping to do a sort-of AMA in the future about rebuilding Sentry (and the open source approach), but if anyone has any questions about the new version I'm happy to answer them.

David, I've been a Sentry customer for years and I rely on it. But one feature I miss dearly is having a 1 day graph that shows me the health of my servers based on a single count. A few months ago the top-right dashboard lost its total count and I had to rely on hovering over the graph bars to see what the numbers looked like. I generate a hundred exceptions in a day (on a good day), and I like to use that count to…

We're definitely going to be improving things like the dashboard (and organization dash). I do agree regarding better visibility into what the graphs represent, and we've opened an issue to track this:

https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/issues/2131

(There's a few other related issues to this, but I think this addresses that core problem)

Re: Sentry 8 is here

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Post by lobster_johnson »

zeeg wrote: post #2

David from Sentry here. We're hoping to do a sort-of AMA in the future about rebuilding Sentry (and the open source approach), but if anyone has any questions about the new version I'm happy to answer them.

Sentry looks cool. I have previously tested Rollbar and Airbrake, but was deeply unsatisfied with both.

The big problem I have with all these services is that you need set up each application individually: Each one is a silo, with its own notification settings, API key, and so on. We have dozens of apps (several products + lots of microservices), so this is just unacceptable. I looked into whether I could use a single API key with Rollbar or Airbrake, and simply tag each event with the name of the sender, but it turns out this is not feasible. They don't even have APIs that let you programmatically configure apps remotely.

How does Sentry compare?

(Many other SaaS services suffer from the same issue; for example, Semaphore, which we use for CI, requires a build script for each project. We worked around this by letting the build script be a single curl command that pipes a remote script to bash, shared across all projects. But hardly ideal.)

Re: Sentry 8 is here

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Post by zeeg »

wheaties wrote: post #14
zeeg wrote: post #2

David from Sentry here. We're hoping to do a sort-of AMA in the future about rebuilding Sentry (and the open source approach), but if anyone has any questions about the new version I'm happy to answer them.

Do you plan on supporting JVM based languages?

Absolutely!

We do have some support for Java, but its unfortunately heavily tied into Logging right now. Our short term goal is to at the very least ensure we have proper documentation (and support) for getting things up and running in Clojure and Scala.

Re: Sentry 8 is here

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Post by ryanpetrich »

zeeg wrote: post #2

David from Sentry here. We're hoping to do a sort-of AMA in the future about rebuilding Sentry (and the open source approach), but if anyone has any questions about the new version I'm happy to answer them.

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