Sentry Production Deployment Checklist

Overview

Walk through every production-critical Sentry configuration item before a deploy — SDK init options, source map uploads, alert routing, PII scrubbing, sample rate tuning, and test error verification. Covers @sentry/node (v8+) and sentry-cli workflows.

Use when:

• Preparing a first production deploy with Sentry
• Auditing an existing Sentry config after an incident
• Running a go-live readiness review
• Onboarding a new service into Sentry monitoring

Prerequisites

• @sentry/node (or framework-specific SDK like @sentry/nextjs, @sentry/react) installed
• Sentry project created with a dedicated production DSN (separate from dev/staging)
• sentry-cli installed globally or as a devDependency (npm i -D @sentry/cli)
• SENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN with scope project:releases available in CI environment
• Build pipeline that produces source maps