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Installation 8.x (Elixir >= 1.10)

defp deps do
  [
    # ...
    {:sentry, "~> 8.0"},
    {:jason, "~> 1.1"},
    {:hackney, "~> 1.8"},
    # if you are using plug_cowboy
    {:plug_cowboy, "~> 2.3"},
  ]
end

Installation 7.x (Elixir < 1.10)

defp deps do
  [
    # ...
    {:sentry, "~> 7.2"},
    {:jason, "~> 1.1"},
  ]
end

Configuration

Setup the application production environment in your config/config.exs

config :sentry,
  dsn: "YOUR-GLITCHTIP-DSN-HERE",
  environment_name: Mix.env(),
  included_environments: [:prod],
  enable_source_code_context: true,
  # 8.x
  root_source_code_paths: [File.cwd!()]
  # 7.x
  root_source_code_path: File.cwd!()

The environment_name and included_environments work together to determine if and when GlitchTip should record exceptions. The environment_name is the name of the current environment.

This will set the environment name to whatever the current Mix environment atom is, but it will only send events if the current environment is :prod, since that is the only entry in the included_environments key.

You can even rely on more custom determinations of the environment name. It’s not uncommon for most applications to have a “staging” environment. In order to handle this without adding an additional Mix environment, you can set an environment variable that determines the release level.

config :sentry, dsn: "YOUR-GLITCHTIP-DSN-HERE",
  included_environments: ~w(production staging),
  environment_name: System.get_env("RELEASE_LEVEL") || "development"

In this example, we are getting the environment name from the RELEASE_LEVEL environment variable. If that variable does not exist, it will default to "development". Now, on your server, we can set the environment variable appropriately. On your local development machines, exceptions will never be sent, because the default value is not in the list of included_environments.

Setup with Plug or Phoenix (8.x)

If using an environment with Phoenix, add the following to MyAppWeb.Endpoint:

 defmodule MyAppWeb.Endpoint
   # lib/my_app_web/endpoint.ex
+  use Sentry.PlugCapture
   use Phoenix.Endpoint, otp_app: :my_app
   # ...
   plug Plug.Parsers,
     parsers: [:urlencoded, :multipart, :json],
     pass: ["*/*"],
     json_decoder: Phoenix.json_library()

+  plug Sentry.PlugContext

If using an environment without Phoenix, add the following at the top of your Plug application, and add Sentry.PlugContext below Plug.Parsers (if it is in stack)

 defmodule MyApp.Router do
   use Plug.Router
+  use Sentry.PlugCapture
   # ...
   plug Plug.Parsers,
     parsers: [:urlencoded, :multipart]

+  plug Sentry.PlugContext

Setup with Plug or Phoenix (7.x)

In your Plug.Router or Phoenix.Router, add the following lines:

 # lib/my_app_web/router.ex
 defmodule MyAppWeb.Router do
   use MyAppWeb, :router
+  use Plug.ErrorHandler
+  use Sentry.Plug

If using Phoenix, you can include Sentry.Phoenix.Endpoint. This module captures errors in the Phoenix pipeline:

 # lib/my_app_web/endpoint.ex
defmodule MyAppWeb.Endpoint
   use Phoenix.Endpoint, otp_app: :my_app
+  use Sentry.Phoenix.Endpoint

Capture Crashed Process Exceptions

Extension to capture all error messages that the Plug handler might skip:

# config/config.exs
+  config :logger,
+    backends: [:console, Sentry.LoggerBackend]