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You already instrumented the backend with OpenTelemetry. Your services emit spans. Your teams know the OTel APIs. Maybe you already run a Collector. So when you start evaluating Sentry, the obvious question is: Do you need to replace your OpenTelemetry setup with the Sentry SDK? No. The practical answer is usually: keep OpenTelemetry where it already works, add the Sentry SDK where it gives you more application context, and send OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) events to Sentry.

Agents are getting better and better at fixing bugs. They’re even getting better at testing their work, thanks to headless browsers, sandboxes, simulators, etc. But what about the bugs that only show up once you bring in different browsers, languages, extensions, internet speeds, and all the other variables that get mixed in the second you ship to prod? Or all the bugs that only show up when you account for… well, humans being humans and doing weird stuff you didn’t expect them to do?

You already have everything you need. If you’re using Sentry, you have traces, structured logs, and now application metrics. Most teams use that stuff for debugging and stop there. But get this: that same data can answer most of the product questions you’ve been sending to a separate analytics tool, maintained by a separate team, with a separate data model and a separate bill. (Not all of them.

The traditional dashboard workflow, teams slowly handcrafting visualizations to track critical KPIs, is dying in a world of AI agents. A few years ago, in a pre-agentic-everything world, we tried to make it easier for developers to monitor critical experiences. We introduced Insights pages, which were pre-configured dashboards any Sentry user could adopt instantly that surfaced common health signals, like Web and Mobile Vitals.

The way we build software has drastically changed over the past few years. What hasn’t changed is that this software ends up in front of real people: you, me, my mom. And when those users inevitably run into something broken, you as the application’s developer need to be equipped with the right tools, context and understanding of what broke, where it broke, and how to fix it as quickly as possible. Every day we’re inching closer to self-healing software.