Sentry Has a Free API — Here's How to Track Errors Like a Pro

A startup I know shipped a bug on Friday. Nobody noticed until Monday when a customer tweeted about it. 3 days of broken checkout, $12,000 in lost sales. If they had Sentry, they'd have known in 30 seconds. What Sentry Offers for Free Sentry Developer plan (free forever): 5,000 errors/month — enough for most projects 10,000 performance transactions/month 1 GB attachments All SDKs — JavaScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java, .NET, etc. Stack traces with source maps Release tracking Issue grouping and deduplication Email alerts Quick Start (JavaScript) npm install @sentry/node const Sentry = require ( ' @sentry/node ' ); Sentry . init ({ dsn : ' https://YOUR_KEY@o0.ingest.sentry.io/0 ' , tracesSampleRate : 0.1 , // 10% of transactions environment : process . env . NODE_ENV , release : ' myapp@1.0.0 ' }); // Errors are automatically captured // But you can also capture manually: try { await riskyOperation (); } catch ( error ) { Sentry . captureException ( error , { tags : { module : ' payments