Set Up Performance

With performance monitoring, Sentry tracks your software performance, measuring metrics like throughput and latency, and displaying the impact of errors across multiple systems. Sentry captures distributed traces consisting of transactions and spans, which measure individual services and individual operations within those services. Learn more about our model in Distributed Tracing.

Enable Tracing

import io.sentry.spring.tracing.SentryTracingFilter;
import javax.servlet.Filter;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.support.AbstractAnnotationConfigDispatcherServletInitializer;

public class AppInitializer extends AbstractAnnotationConfigDispatcherServletInitializer {
  // ...
  @Override
  protected Filter[] getServletFilters() {
    return new Filter[] {new SentryTracingFilter()};
  }
}

Configure

• Setting a uniform sample rate for all transactions using the tracesSampleRate option in your SDK config to a number between 0 and 1. (For example, to send 20% of transactions, set tracesSampleRate to 0.2.)
• Controlling the sample rate based on the transaction itself and the context in which it's captured, by providing a function to the tracesSampler config option.

The two options are meant to be mutually exclusive. If you set both, tracesSampler will take precedence.

# Set traces_sample_rate to 1.0 to capture 100%
# of transactions for performance monitoring.
# We recommend adjusting this value in production.
traces-sample-rate=1.0

import io.sentry.SentryOptions.TracesSamplerCallback;
import io.sentry.SamplingContext;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

@Component
class CustomTracesSamplerCallback implements TracesSamplerCallback {
  @Override
  public Double sample(SamplingContext context) {
    CustomSamplingContext customSamplingContext = context.getCustomSamplingContext();
    if (customSamplingContext != null) {
      HttpServletRequest request = (HttpServletRequest) customSamplingContext.get("request");
      // return a number between 0 and 1 or null (to fallback to configured value)
    } else {
      // return a number between 0 and 1 or null (to fallback to configured value)
    }
  }
}

Learn more about performance monitoring options, or how to sample transactions.

Verify

Verify that performance monitoring is working correctly by using our automatic instrumentation or by starting and finishing a transaction using custom instrumentation.

While you're testing, set tracesSampleRate to 1.0, as that ensures that every transaction will be sent to Sentry.

Once testing is complete, you may want to set a lower tracesSampleRate value, or switch to using tracesSampler to selectively sample and filter your transactions, based on contextual data.

Next Steps