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Overview

IncidentFox integrates with Sentry for error tracking, issue analysis, and release correlation. This helps identify application errors that may be causing incidents.

Tools Available

Configuration

Authentication

Create a Sentry API token with the following scopes:

Example Queries

Find Recent Errors

Correlate with Deployment

Get Issue Details

Use Cases

Error Spike Investigation

When investigating latency or availability issues:
  1. IncidentFox checks Sentry for recent error spikes
  2. Correlates error timing with incident timeline
  3. Identifies specific exceptions causing problems

Release Impact Analysis

After a deployment:
  1. Compare error rates before/after release
  2. Identify new error types introduced
  3. Correlate with GitHub commits in the release

Root Cause Identification

Sentry provides stack traces that help identify:
  • Specific code paths causing errors
  • Environment differences (e.g., specific hosts)
  • User impact scope

Configuration Options

Troubleshooting

Rate Limiting

Sentry has API rate limits. If you hit them:

Missing Events

If recent events aren’t appearing:
  1. Check Sentry data retention settings
  2. Verify the project has events
  3. Ensure the time range is correct

Next Steps

GitHub

Correlate errors with code changes

Log Analysis

Combine with log analysis