Sentry Reliability Patterns

Prerequisites

• Understanding of failure modes

• Fallback logging strategy

• Network reliability characteristics

• Graceful shutdown requirements

Instructions

• Wrap Sentry.init with try/catch for graceful initialization failure handling

• Implement fallback capture function that logs locally if Sentry fails

• Add retry with exponential backoff for network failures

• Implement offline event queue for intermittent connectivity

• Add circuit breaker pattern to skip Sentry after repeated failures

• Configure request timeout with wrapper function

• Implement graceful shutdown with Sentry.close() on SIGTERM

• Set up dual-write pattern to multiple error trackers for redundancy

• Create health check endpoint to verify Sentry connectivity

• Test all failure scenarios to ensure application continues operating

Output

• Graceful degradation implemented

• Circuit breaker pattern applied

• Offline queue configured

• Dual-write reliability enabled

Error Handling

See ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/errors.md for comprehensive error handling.

Examples

See ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/examples.md for detailed examples.

Resources

• Sentry Configuration

• Transport Options

Overview

Build reliable Sentry integrations.