proper-sentry

Report the errors and the performance of a Proper app to Sentry.

uv add proper-sentry

Usage

Add a SENTRY dict to your config. It takes the same options as sentry_sdk.init():

SENTRY = {
    "dsn": "https://<key>@<org>.ingest.sentry.io/<project>",
    "environment": "production",
    "traces_sample_rate": 0.1,
}

Then instrument the app, right after creating it:

from proper import App
from proper_sentry import instrument

app = App(__name__, config=config)
instrument(app)

Leave SENTRY out of your development config and nothing is reported.

If you'd rather start Sentry yourself, call sentry_sdk.init(...) and then instrument(app) without a SENTRY config.

What gets reported

• Errors: every request that ends in a server error (5xx), with the request's method, URL, headers and form fields. Errors that become a 4xx page (not found, forbidden, invalid CSRF token...) aren't reported.
• Performance: each request is a transaction, named after its controller action (myapp.controllers.posts.PostsController.show), with a span for every SQL query. Traces from other services continue through the sentry-trace and baggage headers.
• Background tasks: Sentry's own Huey integration reports the tasks of the queue. It turns on by itself.

With "send_default_pii": True in SENTRY, the reports also include the cookies, the IP address, and the id, email and login of current.user.

Options

instrument(app, transaction_style="url", trace_sql=False)

• transaction_style: "endpoint" (the default) names transactions after the controller action; "url" uses the route path (/posts/:id).
• trace_sql: set to False to skip the SQL spans and breadcrumbs.

Not supported yet

• WebSocket channels.
• Sentry's span streaming mode (trace_lifecycle="stream"): errors are still reported, but no transactions are sent.

Development

make install
make test
make lint

tests/test_e2e.py sends real events to a Sentry project and reads them back through the Sentry API. It's skipped unless these environment variables are set:

export SENTRY_DSN=...         # DSN of a project used only for tests
export SENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN=...  # a token with event:read and project:read
export SENTRY_ORG=...         # the organization slug
make e2e

It takes a minute or two, while Sentry indexes the events.