django-minisentry 20230810

A Django app to collect sentry errors in local database, render in a simplified UI similar to Sentry

minisentry

A Django reusable app to extend sentry-sdk with ability to collect errors in local database rather than send to sentry. An admin panel is provided to browse grouped issues.

This app is useful when for some reason you cannot use sentry.io interface, maybe you can't send data to third party vendors, maybe you can't have a self-hosted version.

This is a very simple app, it hooks into sentry_sdk.init.before_send function, serializes the events into json and stores them in the database.

Thjs app is written in rush to get first working version out, I test the app in my application and only maybe will add automatic tests if it gets used.

I analysed the datastructures emitted by sentry-sdk and hae some confidence that I didn't miss anything. The app will store the raw event as a whole, so if I missed anything, corrections to the main template should be enough. It is a recoverbale mistake.

This app will obviously only work for errors that don't relate to database connection itself. You have to have working django and connection to store them.

Versioning: calver, I only care for the most recent version of sentry-sdk, python and django, but likely it will work with some lower versions.

I start with implementing only what I need, with time I will add more stuff.

install

pip install django-minisentry

# settings.py
INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...,
    'minisentry'
]

# urls.py
urlpatterns = [
    ...
    path('minisentry/', include('minisentry.urls')),
    ...
]

# wherever you setup sentry_sdk
from minisentry import store
sentry_sdk.init(
    ...,
    before_send = store(
        send=False,            # default 
        event_callback=print,  # maybe for debug
        hint_callback=print,   # maybe for debug
    )
)

develop

git clone https://github.com/bartekbrak/django-minisentry
pip install -e django-minisentry

legal

Dear Sentry, please don't sue me. This project is for people who cannot use your wonderful, best-in-class product. I'm your biggest fan and evangelise your paid version where I can. This all is in good faith, but it does abuse your SDK, you didn't build it so that we can store your events elsewhere. Thanks.

todo

• tests
• backlinks, in admin, in browse
• rename debug
• search
• first_seen, last_seen
• graph on issue list
• x minutes ago
• event_id as primary
• permissions?
• colours
• stringify2 needs to escape html
• managment commands to delete old
• storage information, sizes
• rename to minisentry, never mini- mini_
• clean css
• prettify sql

based on

• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.2/intro/reusable-apps/
• https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/python/configuration/filtering/

changelog

• 2023-08-10 rename to minisentry
• 2023-08-04 first rushed alpha version