error-tracking

What problem does it solve?

This Skill provides comprehensive guidance and best practices for integrating and utilizing Sentry for error tracking and performance monitoring, solving the problem of unhandled exceptions, performance bottlenecks, and a lack of actionable insights in both frontend and backend applications.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Mandatory Error Capture: Ensures all unhandled exceptions and specific errors are automatically reported to Sentry with rich context.
• Performance Monitoring: Guides on implementing tracing and performance spans for critical operations, helping identify and resolve bottlenecks.
• Contextualized Reporting: Best practices for adding user, tag, and extra data to error reports, making debugging faster and more efficient.
• Use Case: When a critical error occurs in your application, use this Skill to ensure it's automatically reported to Sentry with full user context, relevant tags, and a performance trace, allowing for rapid diagnosis and resolution without manual intervention.

Quick Start

Explain how to initialize Sentry in a Node.js application using instrument.ts and demonstrate how to manually capture an exception with custom tags and extra data.