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I'd be curious to hear if any HN readers are using Sentry and how they like the service. We started as primarily Python based, so it's especially interesting if you're using it for another language/platform.

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We're using it at http://sprint.ly/ . In general, I like it.

I wish...

  - I could search w/ meaningful results
  - I could group by exception type.
  - I had a better method of seeing the different input data that caused the exception (without next/next/nexting).
  - there were lots more information around my source code.

I could probably come up with a few more if I were pressed to. All that said, we'll continue to pay for the service b/c its useful to our business.

I second the need to have a view that shows the exception group and displays the differences between input data. I use it extensively with other log levels and treat it as a log aggregator (especially for INFO). However, it's really hard to view the variables within the input data which is necessary for any entries that are not one-off exceptions. Otherwise it's a wonderful service.

We (http://www.fool.com) are currently using Sentry with a few Django sites, a few Wordpress sites and (very sparingly) with some C# code. There have been a few hiccups here and there with the UI, but we have been extremely happy with the service so far.

As a side note, we also have a legacy internal log error application that we also use, but it is nice to not have to deal with any of that infrastructure :).

We use the open source version in our wing of the Broad Institute for our external web application (python based), and we're absolutely thrilled with it.

We're a Atlassian/JIRA shop internally, and the JIRA plugin. It's not better than having a bug free product, but it is amazingly reassuring to the customer when they contact us with an error and we're already looking at the stack trace and fixing the problem.

Thank you for this incredible product.

we use it on free heroku tier (actually we just had to bump db to $5 plan) to grab errors from 3 django apps, so far so good.

To whoever is interested, I am maintaining this repo, that allows you to install sentry on heroku in a couple of steps https://github.com/dmishe/sentry-on-heroku

We love sentry. We made the switch from Hoptoad/Airbrake, because the pricing based on event volume rather than number of projects. We use it to track a group of small-scale Rails applications - which are growing in number, but reasonably low traffic.

I love everything about it, looking forward to having a poke around the new design!

My company uses the open source version with a django app, and it's pretty effective. We actually hacked it up a little to add support for sending a Session (same with Raven) because a lot of our errors were related to that, but as a whole its a pretty effective tool.

We're using the hosted version of Sentry with out Django app. Absolutely loving it. Started playing around with the free version a while back and really glad to have the hosted service now.

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