Provides the basic functionality to submit a Sentry.Event to the Sentry Service.

Configuration

Add the following to your production config

config :sentry, dsn: "https://public:secret@app.getsentry.com/1",
  included_environments: [:prod],
  environment_name: :prod,
  tags: %{
    env: "production"
  }

The environment_name and included_environments work together to determine if and when Sentry should record exceptions. The environment_name is the name of the current environment. In the example above, we have explicitly set the environment to :prod which works well if you are inside an environment specific configuration config/prod.exs.

An alternative is to use Mix.env in your general configuration file:

config :sentry, dsn: "https://public:secret@app.getsentry.com/1",
  included_environments: [:prod],
  environment_name: Mix.env

This will set the environment name to whatever the current Mix environment atom is, but it will only send events if the current environment is :prod, since that is the only entry in the included_environments key.

You can even rely on more custom determinations of the environment name. It's not uncommmon for most applications to have a "staging" environment. In order to handle this without adding an additional Mix environment, you can set an environment variable that determines the release level.

config :sentry, dsn: "https://public:secret@app.getsentry.com/1",
  included_environments: ~w(production staging),
  environment_name: System.get_env("RELEASE_LEVEL") || "development"

In this example, we are getting the environment name from the RELEASE_LEVEL environment variable. If that variable does not exist, we default to "development". Now, on our servers, we can set the environment variable appropriately. On our local development machines, exceptions will never be sent, because the default value is not in the list of included_environments.

Filtering Exceptions

If you would like to prevent certain exceptions, the :filter configuration option allows you to implement the Sentry.EventFilter behaviour. The first argument is the exception to be sent, and the second is the source of the event. Sentry.Plug will have a source of :plug, Sentry.LoggerBackend will have a source of :logger, and Sentry.Phoenix.Endpoint will have a source of :endpoint. If an exception does not come from either of those sources, the source will be nil unless the :event_source option is passed to Sentry.capture_exception/2

A configuration like below will prevent sending Phoenix.Router.NoRouteError from Sentry.Plug, but allows other exceptions to be sent.

# sentry_event_filter.ex
defmodule MyApp.SentryEventFilter do
  @behaviour Sentry.EventFilter

  def exclude_exception?(%Elixir.Phoenix.Router.NoRouteError{}, :plug), do: true
  def exclude_exception?(_exception, _source), do: false
end

# config.exs
config :sentry, filter: MyApp.SentryEventFilter,
  included_environments: ~w(production staging),
  environment_name: System.get_env("RELEASE_LEVEL") || "development"

Capturing Exceptions

Simply calling capture_exception/2 will send the event. By default, the event is sent asynchronously and the result can be awaited upon. The :result option can be used to change this behavior. See Sentry.Client.send_event/2 for more information.

{:ok, task} = Sentry.capture_exception(my_exception)
{:ok, event_id} = Task.await(task)
{:ok, another_event_id} = Sentry.capture_exception(other_exception, [event_source: :my_source, result: :sync])

Options

• :event_source - The source passed as the first argument to Sentry.EventFilter.exclude_exception?/2

Configuring The Logger Backend

See Sentry.LoggerBackend