Event Processors

You can enrich events with additional data by adding your own event processors, either on the scope level or globally. Though event processors are similar to BeforeSend and BeforeSendTransaction, there are two key differences:

  • BeforeSend and BeforeSendTransaction are guaranteed to be run last, after all other event processors, (which means they get the final version of the event right before it's sent, hence the name). Event processors added with either of the methods below run in an undetermined order, which means changes to the event may still be made after the event processor runs.
  • While BeforeSend, BeforeSendTransaction, and processors added with Sentry.addGlobalEventProcessor run globally, regardless of scope, processors added with Scope.addEventProcessor only run on events captured while that scope is active.

Like BeforeSend and BeforeSendTransaction, event processors are passed two arguments, the event itself and a hint object containing extra metadata.

You can create your own event processors by implementing the ISentryEventProcessor interface. You can also create custom processors for transactions by implementing the ISentryTransactionProcessor.

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using Sentry;
using Sentry.Extensibility;

public class CustomEventProcessor : ISentryEventProcessor
{
    public SentryEvent? Process(SentryEvent @event)
    {
        // Add anything to the event here
        // returning `null` will drop the event
        return @event;
    }
}

Processors run on every event sent once they've been added. While there are multiple ways of doing this, adding processors to the options ensures that they run with every event after initialization.

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options.AddEventProcessor(new CustomEventProcessor());

If AddEventProcessor has been added to the scope, it'll apply to both the current and the following scopes:

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SentrySdk.ConfigureScope(scope => scope.AddEventProcessor(new CustomEventProcessor()));

But if an event processor has only been added to a local scope using withScope, it'll only apply to events captured inside that scope.

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SentrySdk.WithScope(scope => scope.AddEventProcessor(new CustomEventProcessor()));
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