Re:We Just Gave $155k to Open Source Maintainers
by Aeolun on Thursday October 21, 2021 @01:10PM
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Why would someone use Sentry for that when stuff like OpenReplay exists. It’s like trying to hammer your nail in with a screwdriver.
Re:We Just Gave $155k to Open Source Maintainers
by mikepurvis on Thursday October 21, 2021 @01:34PM
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I don't think you would if your upfront goal was "telemetry" and you actually evaluated solutions for that. But if you had the Sentry pipeline in place already for crash reports, it would be very easy to slide into using it for tracking other kinds of custom events.
https://docs.sentry.io/product/cli/send-event/
Other places discuss sending "info"-level log events:
https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/python/guides/logging/
These things aren't necessarily bad, but they're 100% the building blocks for various forms of badness, and I can fully understand track-free users just saying no to all of it.
In any case, the solution for Sentry-the-company is just to have a separate domain for receiving events, so getting that blocked doesn't block your corporate landing page.