The core Sentry product: error tracking

The world of software bugs is vast, and while there’s no established delineation between these pesky terms, we can assume the following for future reference:

Software Error: Any event or condition during the execution of a program that disrupts the normal flow of the code.

There are many classes of issues that may arise during development and execution (i.e. the actual running) of a software application, each with their own quirks and methods for handling.

Sentry is a platform for monitoring and tracking these errors in software applications. By default, it handles and reports any uncaught errors (those not encapsulated in a try/catch block), while also allowing collecting the handled errors. Capturing the errors is just the first step: Sentry also does most of the dirty work in classifying, grouping, and visualizing errors to make them legible and easy to take action on.