Clerk Observability

Overview

Implement monitoring, logging, and observability for Clerk authentication. Covers structured auth logging, middleware performance tracking, webhook event monitoring, Sentry integration, and health check endpoints.

Prerequisites

• Clerk integration working
• Monitoring platform (Sentry, DataDog, or Pino logger at minimum)
• Logging infrastructure (structured JSON logs recommended)

Instructions

Step 1: Structured Authentication Event Logging

// lib/auth-logger.ts
import pino from 'pino'