I wake up to discover that my site https://remotehunt.com is super slow. First thing I do is visit HN to see what's up and I instantly see that Sentry is down.

I'm using Sentry to monitor logs and it now makes sense. Ok, so I remove Sentry from Laravel's error handler but nothing changes. And it's weird because sometimes it works, sometimes not. I tweak some things on Cloudflare (turning on Under Attack mode etc).

I still have this feeling that maybe it's related to Sentry: I'm using it and HN says it's down. So I go and remove the composer package as well, just in case. And it worked.

It took like an hour... I didn't use Sentry anyways :)

What did I learn: do not depend on external services if you really don't need it.