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title: "Sentry Observability Platform — Definition & Engineering Context"
description: "Sentry is an open-source application monitoring and error tracking platform that helps developers identify, diagnose, and resolve application bugs and database performance bottlenecks in real time."
canonical: https://erpstack.io/glossary/sentry
markdown_url: https://erpstack.io/glossary/sentry.md
publisher: ERPStack
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# Sentry Observability Platform

> **Definition:** Sentry is an open-source application monitoring and error tracking platform that helps developers identify, diagnose, and resolve application bugs and database performance bottlenecks in real time.

## In depth

For B2B software, wait-and-see error tracking is insufficient. Sentry captures uncaught exceptions, records stack traces, and measures database query latencies. By alert routing directly to developers, Sentry ensures issues are identified before affecting customers.

## How ERPStack applies this

We integrate Sentry tracing inside Next.js pages and edge routers, providing real-time error alerts and performance reports for your production applications.

## Related reading

- [Technical Debt](https://erpstack.io/glossary/tech-debt)
- [CI/CD Deployment Pipelines](https://erpstack.io/glossary/ci-cd)