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Most observability stacks aren’t designed, they accumulate. A logging tool here, a tracing platform there, and before you know it you’re managing rising costs and a setup that ultimately slows down your team. And you’ve moved further away from actually solving problems for your users.

Logging in Next.js is more difficult than you might think. Most logging libraries are only designed to run in Next.js. Some have "hacks" to work in the browser, but almost none will work in the Edge runtime where your middleware lives.

Next.js runs in up to three runtimes in a typical deployment, but most logging libraries only support one. Watch the full video.

You fixed all the errors. But the job's not done. If you're using tracing, logs, metrics, or other Sentry products, there's a wealth of performance data scattered across your application just waiting to be surfaced. In this video, we walk through the move from Insights to Dashboards: giving you full control over how you view, filter, and customize your monitoring setup. Here's what's covered: Check out Dashboards in your Sentry organization and let us know what you think!

​We put the internet’s loudest developers in one room at Chase Center. On purpose. Tune in for highlights from the event from: ​Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski: hosts of your favorite developer podcast, Syntax. Taught half of you how to actually use React. ​Teej and ThePrimeagen: sell coffee through the terminal, have over a million YouTube subscribers and even more opinions on memes.

We released a new type of dashboard widget - Text Widgets! You can use them to explain other widgets (good for onboarding), or even define your playbooks - instructions on how to investigate failures by reading the other widgets. They even support markdown!

Now you can just describe the dashboard you want and Sentry builds it — which means with the right data, you're looking at Product Adoption Dashboards and a little product analytics, right inside Sentry.

In Sentry, it’s now possible to create dashboards using an agent. Simply navigate to Dashboards, click “Create Dashboard”, choose “Generate dashboard”, and provide a prompt describing the dashboard you wish to generate. Agentic dashboard creation is available for all Early Adopters with Generative AI Features enabled.

Sometimes a simple stack trace won’t provide enough information for you to debug the issue at hand. There are types of issues that require you to know what happened leading up to the exception. In those cases, reach for tracing. Distributed tracing gives you an overview of every operation that happened during the execution of a certain functionality across your whole stack. Aside from being an awesome debugging tool, it also lets you identify any performance bottlenecks in your application. In this video you’ll learn how to view traces in Sentry and implement them in your Next.js application.