Sentry

Sentry is an application monitoring platform that helps developers identify, debug, and resolve issues. Integrating Sentry with Cortex allows you to contextualize issues with other events, track errors, measure quality, and drive performance improvements across entities.

In this guide, you'll learn how to set up and configure the Sentry integration in Cortex to enhance visibility into events and issues.

Setup and configuration

Getting started

In order to connect Cortex to your Sentry instance, you’ll need to create a Sentry user auth token from Sentry user settings.

For the integration to work successfully, the user auth token requires Read permissions for the Issue & Event and Project scopes.

Configuration

Once you've created the auth token, add it on the Sentry page in settings. The configuration has three fields:

• Auth token: The user auth token created in Sentry.

• Organization slug: Slug for your Sentry organization, which can be found in Sentry settings and in the URL for your instance (e.g. https://sentry.io/organizations//issues/).

• Host: Optional host name for self-hosted Sentry instances. Do not include the /api prefix.

If you’ve set everything up correctly, you’ll see the option to Remove Integration in settings.

You can also use the Test configuration button to confirm that the configuration was successful. If your configuration is valid, you’ll see a banner that says “Configuration is valid. If you see issues, please see documentation or reach out to Cortex support.”

Registration

Entity descriptor

x-cortex-sentry:
  projects:
  - name: my-project
  - name: my-second-project

Field	Description	Required
name	Project name as defined in Sentry	✓

Expected results

Entity pages

Once the integration with Sentry is established, you'll be able to find key data about errors and issues on an entity's details page. In the entity's sidebar, navigate to Error tracking > Sentry to find detected issues for each project.

At the top of the page, you'll find a list of Sentry projects associated with an entity. Each project listed in Cortex links back to the project details page in Sentry.

Under the Issues header, you'll find a list of all issues related to the project(s) that Cortex detected in Sentry. Each issue in the list links back to that issue's details page in Sentry. Cortex will pull in the title and tags for each issue.

Events

Sentry issues and events will also appear in an entity's event timeline, found under Events in the side panel. This allows users to contextualize Sentry issues with other key data - like deploys or errors discovered from other integrations - during incidents or migrations.

Cortex Slackbot

You can use the /cortex sentry command in Slack, where `` is the entity tag in Cortex, to get a list of all recent Sentry issues for a given entity.

Scorecards and CQL

With the Sentry integration, you can create Scorecard rules and write CQL queries based on Sentry projects.

See more examples in the CQL Explorer in Cortex.

Check if Sentry project is set

Check if entity has a registered Sentry project.

Definition: sentry (==/!=) null

Example

For a production readiness Scorecard, you can use this expression to make sure entities are linked to a Sentry project.

sentry != null

This can also serve as a way to confirm that entities are synced with Sentry and reporting frequently.

Number of events

Counts Sentry events for a given custom query to a max of 1,000.

If no query is provided, the rule will count unresolved events by default.

Definition: sentry.numOfIssueEvents((<query>))

Example

For a Scorecard focused on operational maturity, you can check for any unresolved issues that were first seen within a week.

sentry.numOfIssueEvents("is:unresolved firstSeen:-1w") <= 10

Number of issues

Counts Sentry issues for a given custom query to a max of 300.

If no query is provided, the rule will count unresolved issues by default.

Definition: sentry.numOfIssues((<query>))

Example

For a Scorecard focused on operational maturity, you can pull in the number of Sentry issues to make sure entities are functioning as expected.

sentry.numOfIssues() < 100

For a Scorecard focused on code quality, you can write a more focused rule to make sure there haven't been any issues in production environments in the last week.

sentry.numOfIssues("is:unresolved environment:[production,prod] lastSeen:-1w") < 2

The maximum number of Sentry events fetched for any query is 1,000, while the maximum number of issues fetched is 300.

Still need help?​

The following options are available to get assistance from the Cortex Customer Engineering team:

• Email: [e-mail], or open a support ticket in the in app Resource Center

• Chat: Available in the Resource Center

• Slack: Users with a connected Slack channel will have a workflow added to their account. From here, you can either @CortexTechnicalSupport or add a :ticket: reaction to a question in Slack, and the team will respond directly.

Don’t have a Slack channel? Talk with your Customer Success Manager.