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The reports are very accurate.", "context": "", "use_case": "daily error digest", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?"}, {"id": 786832690, "item_id": 49177043, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49177043", "by": "encoderer", "date": "2026-08-04", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I don't want to send customer conversations and agent thoughts to a giant multi-tenant borg SaaS database like Sentry or BetterStack.", "excerpt": "At Cronitor we use ClickHouse, but we're leaving it behind for our next product and building directly on Parquet and DuckDB. We think the future of observability in the AI age is self-hosted directly on NVMe backed by cheap and limitless object storage. I don't want to send customer conversations and agent thoughts to a giant multi-tenant borg SaaS database like Sentry or BetterStack.", "context": "works at Cronitor", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "DuckDB \u2013 Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023)"}, {"id": 784669841, "item_id": 49041865, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49041865", "by": "dabinat", "date": "2026-07-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Sentry is great at alerting me to new issues and it also has other features like JS session replays", "excerpt": "I\u2019d recommend self-hosting because most SaaS providers charge or limit by usage and it can add up fast. I use both SigNoz and Sentry with OpenTelemetry. Why both? SigNoz has great dashboards and trace and metrics monitoring, but its alerting system isn\u2019t great. Sentry is great at alerting me to new issues and it also has other features like JS session replays that are nice. They just added metrics monitoring which I ", "context": "", "use_case": "alerting and error tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are your current favorite monitoring and observability solutions?"}, {"id": 778246579, "item_id": 48640411, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640411", "by": "tempest_", "date": "2026-06-22", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "sentry integrates well with redis in python", "excerpt": "> Mature ops would be tracking cache hit ratios right? Sure, and sentry integrates well with redis in python which is what I use primarily with redis. I don't think memcached is bad, I just think its old and industry has moved to redis because it offers more while covering the previous use case. Calling redis fiddly is a mischaracterization. For many use cases I have not had to think more than 30s to setup redis. (al", "context": "", "use_case": "tracking cache hit ratios", "switched_from": "", "story": "In Praise of Memcached"}, {"id": 776142193, "item_id": 48508887, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48508887", "by": "camreon", "date": "2026-06-12", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "finally TrackJS and Sentry for logging/monitoring", "excerpt": "Location: Seattle, WA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Typescript/Javascript, Node, React, Python, C#/.NET, SQL, AWS, HTML/CSS, Docker, Terraform, K8s, Elasticsearch, Cursor R\u00e9sum\u00e9/CV: https://camerong.com/docs/resume%20-%20cameron%20guthrie.pdf LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameron-guthrie-8340032a/ Email: camerongu3@gmail.com --- Full stack web dev here with a bias towards the backend. On ", "context": "full stack web dev", "use_case": "logging/monitoring", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)"}, {"id": 771728688, "item_id": 48233043, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48233043", "by": "gianpaj", "date": "2026-05-22", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "we use an error tracking service (shameless plug!)", "excerpt": "Cannot login: > Server Error It looks like we might be having some problems. But don't worry, we use an error tracking service (shameless plug!) Someone's pager is absolutely blowing up right now\u2026 --- sentry-cli projects list --org xxx error: API request failed Caused by: sentry reported an error: internal server error (http status: 500) Add --log-level=[info|debug] or export SENTRY_LOG_LEVEL=[info|debug] to see more", "context": "", "use_case": "error tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Sentry.io Is Down?"}, {"id": 769675504, "item_id": 48104719, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104719", "by": "kartik_malik", "date": "2026-05-11", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "i use sentry for my side project", "excerpt": "we don't lol, we used to do but these day everyone is doing vibe coding and nobody looking at the logs or error but i use sentry for my side project", "context": "", "use_case": "error monitoring side project", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: How often do you investigate issues in production vs. looking at logs?"}, {"id": 767202257, "item_id": 47950141, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950141", "by": "alokedesai", "date": "2026-04-29", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "We use Sentry for crash reporting, this can be disabled.", "excerpt": "For transparency, the issue with telemetry turning back on after an app restart was a very bad bug introduced yesterday that only affected new users; this is P0 for us to fix and we\u2019ll have a new release out in the next few hours with a fix. The PR is here https://github.com/warpdotdev/warp/pull/9438/ if you want to follow along. To add more color to some of your points in the post above: * We give users the option t", "context": "works on Warp", "use_case": "crash reporting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Warp is now open-source"}, {"id": 766524944, "item_id": 47907809, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907809", "by": "speedgoose", "date": "2026-04-25", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Having healthcare data in a Sentry payload by mistake happens to the best of us.", "excerpt": "I have seen studies where some apps were fucking up very hard and sending healthcare data to services that shouldn\u2019t receive it. Sometimes in clear text. My trust is very low. Having healthcare data in a Sentry payload by mistake happens to the best of us.", "context": "", "use_case": "error monitoring", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day"}, {"id": 766523217, "item_id": 47907701, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907701", "by": "speedgoose", "date": "2026-04-25", "stance": "warn", "quote": "It can be inadvertently, especially with Sentry.", "excerpt": "The Facebook Ads SDK in a mental health app isn\u2019t normal. Or shouldn\u2019t. Even analytics SDKs is a bit weird to see. Are Amplitude or Sentry hosting data with a healthcare compliant infrastructure ? I won\u2019t bet. Are those SDKs for sure not leaking health care data? It can be inadvertently, especially with Sentry. But I really wonder about why people feel the need to track so much. Do they **** in front of PowerPoint sl", "context": "", "use_case": "error monitoring", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day"}, {"id": 765123697, "item_id": 47820231, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47820231", "by": "chickensong", "date": "2026-04-18", "stance": "compare", "quote": "even a fraction of Datadog and Sentry features", "excerpt": "Are you asking about other 3rd party solutions, or thinking of DIY? AFAIK, Datadog is still the best/most expensive. Any provider offering AI analysis is just going to add to your cost. > I love putting time into this stuff > like the reason for using Heroku - I have a lot of other stuff I need to focus on You probably need to pick a side here. Building a robust solution with even a fraction of Datadog and Sentry fea", "context": "", "use_case": "error tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Observability Stack \u2013 AI First?"}, {"id": 760629122, "item_id": 47539320, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47539320", "by": "iBelieve", "date": "2026-03-26", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Take at Sentry errors, logs, and metrics for the past few days.", "excerpt": "Looks like I'm limited to only 3 cloud scheduled tasks. And I'm on the Max 20x plan, too :( \"Your plan gets 3 daily cloud scheduled sessions. Disable or delete an existing schedule to continue.\" But otherwise, this looks really cool. I've tried using local scheduled tasks in both Claude Code Desktop and the Codex desktop app, and very quickly got annoyed with permissions prompts, so it'll be nice to be able to run sc", "context": "", "use_case": "error monitoring", "switched_from": "", "story": "Schedule Claude Code tasks on the web"}, {"id": 753017044, "item_id": 47063565, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47063565", "by": "lasgawe", "date": "2026-02-18", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Sentry hasn\u2019t reported any critical issues (yet).", "excerpt": "Writtte is an open source document editor. It\u2019s built on top of TipTap, with all extensions written from scratch to fit our use cases. The frontend uses no framework, just vanilla JavaScript with a custom router. It runs on Bun.js, with custom server files and built-in caching. The whole codebase is included and easy to read. We\u2019re getting a good number of users already, and Sentry hasn\u2019t reported any critical issues", "context": "", "use_case": "error monitoring", "switched_from": "", "story": "We built Writtte using vanilla JavaScript (TS), PSQL, and a Go, No frameworks"}, {"id": 747814481, "item_id": 46738405, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46738405", "by": "kaave", "date": "2026-01-23", "stance": "warn", "quote": "had issues with the overwhelming dashboards w sentry and the rest", "excerpt": "might be unrelated , but i use Bugmail , it just notifies me when something is down or something breaks in production , with user context and breadcrumbs, that way i can reach out directly. had issues with the overwhelming dashboards w sentry and the rest so i made mine look like gmail , so its easier to triage the errors. like i said , it might be unrelated , but you might need this tho", "context": "", "use_case": "error monitoring", "switched_from": "", "story": "How do you handle downtime compensation for your customers? 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