Sentry

Sentry is an error monitoring service to track and get notified of errors happening within your application. Sentry offers a hosting solution, but you also offers a self-hosted option.

Features

The most important features it offers for us are the following:

Error monitoring

Uncaught exceptions are automatically captured and grouped into issues, making it easy to identify and prioritize recurring problems. There is also some extra context provided within an issue, such as stack traces, the environment it appears on, breadcrumbs and user actions leading up to the error.

Performance monitoring

This feature can helps you identify latency issues and inefficiencies of your application. It will track a request or operation from start to finish and provide some metrics:

How can you use it in a Node project?

Documentation

Easy, just install the package and initialize it in your application! The rest will happen auto-magically.

Be away of the percentage variable tracesSampleRate, this allows to track the software performance of your application. It defines how many transactions are persisted, so make sure not all transactions are tracked on production environments!