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Dev tools · December 13, 2017

The Monitor by Sentry

Learn monitoring best practices from leading engineers 🐛

The Monitor by Sentry launched on December 13, 2017 with 8 votes, #1,020 of 2,482 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

What it does

The Monitor is Sentry’s new video series about observability and the role of monitoring in building better software. In each episode, engineers from companies like Optimizely, Datadog, DoorDash, and AdRoll talk about their practices and insights, ranging from errors to metrics to logs and beyond, including a detailed technical breakdown.

See how leading companies use Sentry to monitor, debug, and improve their applications at scale.

Learn why more than 130k customers build better software, faster, with Sentry. We wouldn’t have scaled without Sentry. Most of our incidents are hardware-related—and we debug them all inside Sentry Tokens are money, directly. This isn't some esoteric database question — it's why is our bank account going down faster than it should be? Sentry was amazing for getting to the bottom of that. A teammate merged a PR, noticed Sentry issues, and fixed with a follow-up PR. Never got alerted by a customer about this. This is the gold standard. Few teams in the world are working on challenges more technically complex than the ones Anthropic tackles everyfrom sentry.io

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