status: active
timestamp: 2026-06-20
tags: [errors, monitoring, sentry, primary]
Sentry
Primary error tracking — 5K events/mo, per-site env toggle
Sentry
Role
Catches uncaught exceptions across every site + the api.oriz.in Hono Worker + every Chrome extension. Replaces GlitchTip as of 2026-06-20 — the user’s reasoning was “Sentry has the best integration with everything”, and the family’s existing never-hit-quotas rule is satisfied by an env-var toggle (see below) rather than a quota-busting log sink.
Free tier
- 5,000 errors / month (developer plan)
- 1 user, 1 organization
- 30-day data retention
- All SDKs (browser, Node, Worker, Python, etc.)
- Source maps, releases, performance traces (sampled)
- Email + Slack + Discord alerts
Card / subscription required?
NO. Free-tier sign-up is email-only. No payment method requested. Stays free forever as long as you don’t exceed the monthly cap.
Per-site env-var toggle (the never-hit-quotas pattern)
Every site reads ENABLE_SENTRY=true|false at build time. Default is
false — Sentry only initialises when the env-var is explicitly
truthy. This keeps low-traffic sites silent and lets us turn Sentry on
selectively for the sites currently being debugged or recently
deployed. Combined with the 5K/month cap, the toggle prevents a
runaway error loop on one site from burning the family-wide budget.
// inside @chirag127/oriz-kit
if (import.meta.env.ENABLE_SENTRY === 'true') {
Sentry.init({ dsn: import.meta.env.SENTRY_DSN, ... });
}The toggle is documented under rules/never-hit-quotas. NO R2 logging fallback — R2 costs money and is explicitly rejected as an error sink.
Alternatives
- GlitchTip — rejected 2026-06-20, kept as stub
- Bugsink — self-hosted, rejected family-wide
- Rollbar — 5K errors/month free, weaker integration story
- Honeybadger — 12K errors/month free, but smaller integration list
Swap cost
Low — Sentry’s SDK is the de-facto standard. Most “alternatives” are DSN-compatible; swap means changing the DSN env-var.
Why this is our pick
Best integration coverage of any error tracker — Vercel, Cloudflare Workers, Next.js, Vite, Hono, GitHub Actions, Slack, Discord, Linear, Razorpay-via-webhook all have first-party Sentry hooks. The 5K/month cap is fine when paired with the per-site toggle.
Cross-refs
- GlitchTip — rejected predecessor
- API umbrella Hono Worker
- Never hit quotas rule
- No card-on-file rule