Sentry Product Updates October 2017: Resources for Scale

Monthly product updates, pro-tips, and events from the Sentry team. [Sentry]( Product Updates for October 2017 October highlights how Sentry scales. We’ve updated Shared Issues to make exceptions a common language for diverse teams. An overview of alert rules makes notifications more actionable and less noisy with high event volumes. And Google shared our insights from migrating to the cloud (with no downtime). Product Updates [Using Error Boundaries with React 16]( React 16's release introduced Error Boundaries, used to handle error propagation resulting from undefined behaviors that can unmount the component tree. [Learn how to improve resilience]( with Error Boundaries, plus tips for fallback UI. —Max B. [Faster iOS Event Processing]( Ever notice it takes longer to process iOS events? This was mostly because dSYM files had become so large. Sentry now has [a custom library called Symbolic]( to handle symbolication based on custom cache files, which cuts processing time by 90%. —Armin R. [Three Steps to Better Android Debugging]( Setting up Sentry for Android is easy, but there are ways you can enhance error reports and help your team understand otherwise confusing problems. [Check out how to go beyond the stack trace]( with breadcrumbs, user tracking, and custom tags. —Brett H. [Customize Alert Rules for More Proactive Triage]( You can create any number of conditions for alerts in Sentry, making integrations with notification channels like Slack, PagerDuty, and HipChat even more useful. [In this post]( I walk through three alerting scenarios, taking advantage of duration thresholds, segmenting by user and URL, and managing minimum counts. —Meredith H. [Shared Issues Have Changed for the Better]( Shared Issues now include more control over all shareable URLs. It’s still [easy to share with anyone]( in your company, regardless of whether they’re part of your Sentry org. But now Shared Issues have better privacy and can be turned off at any time. —Richard H. [Come Cloud with Us]( Sentry recently migrated from bare metal to Google Cloud to prioritize scalability and security. The switch went great: we’re now several months without dedicated hardware, with zero downtime. [Read about what we learned]( along the way on Google’s blog. —James C. Pro-Tips Transferring Projects Made Easy Ever wish you didn't have to email Support to transfer a project? Under Project Settings, you can simply send a request to the Owner of the destination org. Owners choose and approve a team for the project. Just make sure any endpoints that use both organization and project slugs are updated to reflect the new org. —Kelly C. Featured Partner [Datadog: Events and Metrics in One Dashboard]( [Connect Sentry and Datadog]( to create dashboards and discover correlations between errors in your production app and metrics from your cloud and microservices infrastructure. You can even build synthetic Sentry dashboards to plot error trends over time. COMMUNITY [Let Us Hear From You]( We love hearing from users. Your insights make Sentry more accessible to the rest of the community. Please help us spread the good word! Take a few minutes to [submit a review on G2 Crowd]( and let us know about your experience. —Lindsey S. Come Meet Us At Upcoming Events… [RubyConf]( November 15-17: New Orleans, Louisiana Sentry 132 Hawthorne St. San Francisco, CA 94107 [Unsubscribe](