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This month on Breakpoint, its time for all things tracing! Page won't load? Databases performing poorly? Can't seem to get logged in no matter how many times you put in the right password - dive into all things Tracing and Spans to figure out what's broken!

Oftentimes we need to depend on external APIs to achieve the functionality your app offers. And as we all know, dependencies = points of failure. You don’t own what you don’t control. That’s why it’s super important to keep an eye on them. In this video we’re going to see how we can use Sentry to monitor third party APIs to figure out if they’re causing slowdowns in our own app.

There are few things more table-flip worthy than the random 500 errors that pop up in applications you're building. Tracing in Sentry makes it easy to figure out where in your application these crashes are happening. In this video, Will shows how you can get started using tracing to debug problems like these across distributed applications.

Learn how Sentry helps you identify, debug, and monitor slow database queries in your app.

DId you know you can use feature flags with Sentry? Sentry lets you track feature flag changes from vendors like LaunchDarkly, StatSig, Unleash, and even bring in your own generic feature flags. Even OpenFeature is supported! In this video you'll learn about the Sentry Dev Toolbar, suspect flag tracking, timeline views and more.

Tracing lets you view the path of a request through the different parts of your application. In this video, Cody shows us how you can use Tracing and Spans to debug everything from performance slowdowns in your applications to authentication problems.

Uptime monitoring is live in Sentry! Uptime monitors are automatically created based on the most common URL for your application, or you can configure them manually. Uptime monitoring uses tracing to get better views into the health of your services. Everyone gets 1 uptime monitor for free; go check them out in the Alerts section in Sentry.

Sentry is all about bringing together all the context that comes along with when your application is having problems into one place, so you can debug issues faster and get applications up and running. In this End to End demo video, Cody takes you through a common workflow including Sentry's AI powered Autofix, Stack Traces, Session Replays, and diving into Traces and Spans for debugging.

Pro tip: Cmd+Option+C (or Ctrl+Alt+C) in a Sentry issue, and share the Markdown with others or... paste into a LLM to ask questions about your issues!

Having trouble with bugs in your Godot game? Sentry's Godot SDK helps you track down crash reports, stack traces, and runtime errors. In this video, Stefan will show you how the SDK works in practice. You'll see how it helps whether you're working with GDScript or C#, providing a place to see your errors, so you can fix them and keep your players happy.