Sentry Known Pitfalls

Overview

Ten production-grade Sentry SDK anti-patterns that silently break error tracking, inflate costs, or leave teams blind to failures. Each pitfall includes the broken pattern, root cause, and production-ready fix.

For extended code samples and audit scripts, see configuration pitfalls, error capture pitfalls, SDK initialization pitfalls, integration pitfalls, and monitoring pitfalls.

Prerequisites

• Active Sentry project with @sentry/node >= 8.x or @sentry/browser >= 8.x
• Access to the codebase containing Sentry.init() configuration
• Environment variable management (.env, secrets manager, or CI/CD vars)

Instructions

Step 1: Scan for Existing Pitfalls

# Hardcoded DSNs (Pitfall 1)