Create a New Sentry Project

In this tutorial, you create a new Project in your Sentry account. Projects allow you to scope events to a distinct application in your organization and assign responsibility and ownership to specific users and teams within your organization. You can create a project for a particular language or framework used in your application. For example, you might have separate projects for your API server and frontend client. For more information see Best Practices for Creating Projects

Step 1: Create the project

  1. Login to your Sentry organization

  2. Select Projects from the left side navigation menu to display the list of all your projects

  3. Click on the + Create Project button

    Create new project

    Note: If there are no projects in your account — you might be redirected to the onboarding wizard to create your first project.

    • Select the language or framework for your project based on the code you wish to monitor — in this case, JavaScript.

    • Give the project a Name.

    • Under Set your default alert settings check i'll create my own alerts later

    • Assign a Team to the project.

      Select project language

      If you haven’t defined any teams, you can either select the default org team (the team that has the same name as your Sentry Org) or click on the + button to create a new team.

      Select team

    • Click on Create Project. This takes you to the configuration page. Read through the quick Getting Started guide.

  4. Copy the DSN key and keep it handy as we will be copying the key into the source code.

    Copy DSN

    The DSN (or Data Source Name) tells the SDK where to send the events, associating them with the project you just created.

  5. Click on the Got it! button at the bottom to create the project.

Step 2: Create an alert rule

You can create various alert rules per project and let Sentry know when, how, and whom you want to notify when errors occur in your application. Alert rules consist of Conditions and Actions, which are performed when the associated conditions are met. For more information, see Alerts. When creating a new project, you can select to create it with an alert rule that notifies all project team members (via email) the first time a new issue appears. This means that the next time a similar error occurs, the notification is not triggered since the error is not “new.”

In this step, you create a new Alert rule notifying every time an event occurs, even if it’s associated with an already existing issue. In a real-life scenario you’d probably add additional conditions, as you wouldn’t want to be notified every time an event happens in your frontend code on your end user’s browsers.

  1. From the project drop down list, find the new project and click on the cog icon to open the Project Settings

    Open Project Settings

  2. Click on Alerts to open the Alerts Configuration page

  3. Click on New Alert Rule

    Alerts Configuration

  4. In the New Alert Rule form, select an Issue Alert type and enter the following values

    New Alert Rule form

    The new alert rule notifies the selected team members every time an event is seen in All Environments via Mail

  5. Click Save Rule to create the new rule

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