error-tracking▌
aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts · updated Apr 21, 2026
Set up comprehensive error tracking with Sentry to automatically capture, report, and analyze exceptions, performance issues, and application stability.
Error Tracking
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Overview
Set up comprehensive error tracking with Sentry to automatically capture, report, and analyze exceptions, performance issues, and application stability.
When to Use
- Production error monitoring
- Automatic exception capture
- Release tracking
- Performance issue detection
- User impact analysis
Quick Start
Minimal working example:
npm install -g @sentry/cli
npm install @sentry/node @sentry/tracing
sentry init -d
Reference Guides
Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:
| Guide | Contents |
|---|---|
| Sentry Setup | Sentry Setup, Node.js Sentry Integration |
| Express Middleware Integration | Express Middleware Integration |
| Python Sentry Integration | Python Sentry Integration |
| Source Maps and Release Management | Source Maps and Release Management, CI/CD Release Creation |
| Custom Error Context | Custom Error Context |
| Performance Monitoring | Performance Monitoring |
Best Practices
✅ DO
- Set up source maps for production
- Configure appropriate sample rates
- Track releases and deployments
- Filter sensitive information
- Add meaningful context to errors
- Use breadcrumbs for debugging
- Set user information
- Review error patterns regularly
❌ DON'T
- Send 100% of errors in production
- Include passwords in context
- Ignore configuration for environment
- Skip source map uploads
- Log personally identifiable information
- Use without proper filtering
- Disable tracking in production
Discussion
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Ratings
4.7★★★★★55 reviews- ★★★★★Amelia Rao· Dec 28, 2024
Keeps context tight: error-tracking is the kind of skill you can hand to a new teammate without a long onboarding doc.
- ★★★★★Ira Nasser· Dec 12, 2024
error-tracking fits our agent workflows well — practical, well scoped, and easy to wire into existing repos.
- ★★★★★Isabella Robinson· Dec 12, 2024
Registry listing for error-tracking matched our evaluation — installs cleanly and behaves as described in the markdown.
- ★★★★★Zaid Thompson· Dec 4, 2024
We added error-tracking from the explainx registry; install was straightforward and the SKILL.md answered most questions upfront.
- ★★★★★James Sethi· Nov 23, 2024
Solid pick for teams standardizing on skills: error-tracking is focused, and the summary matches what you get after install.
- ★★★★★Min Ramirez· Nov 11, 2024
Keeps context tight: error-tracking is the kind of skill you can hand to a new teammate without a long onboarding doc.
- ★★★★★Noor Patel· Nov 7, 2024
error-tracking is among the better-maintained entries we tried; worth keeping pinned for repeat workflows.
- ★★★★★Hassan Reddy· Nov 3, 2024
error-tracking has been reliable in day-to-day use. Documentation quality is above average for community skills.
- ★★★★★Neel Torres· Nov 3, 2024
Useful defaults in error-tracking — fewer surprises than typical one-off scripts, and it plays nicely with `npx skills` flows.
- ★★★★★Noor Shah· Oct 26, 2024
Keeps context tight: error-tracking is the kind of skill you can hand to a new teammate without a long onboarding doc.
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