---
title: "ElectronNet"
description: "Captures breadcrumbs and tracing spans for Electrons `net` module. (default)"
url: https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/javascript/guides/electron/configuration/integrations/net/
---

# ElectronNet for Electron

This integration captures breadcrumbs and tracing spans for Electron's `net` module. Breadcrumbs and tracing spans are enabled by default, while `sentry-trace` headers are added to requests for all origins.

The integration can be configured with the following options:

```typescript
interface NetOptions {
  /**
   * Whether breadcrumbs should be captured for net requests
   *
   * Defaults to: true
   */
  breadcrumbs: boolean;
  /**
   * Whether to capture spans for net requests
   *
   * Defaults to: true
   */
  tracing: boolean | (method: string, url: string) => boolean;
  /**
   * Whether to also capture Sentry logs for net requests
   *
   * Defaults to: false
   */
  logs: boolean;
}
```

Here's a code example of how to disable breadcrumb capture and add `sentry-trace` headers to only capture spans for `POST` requests:

```javascript
import * as Sentry from "@sentry/electron/main";

Sentry.init({
  dsn: "https://<key>@o<orgId>.ingest.sentry.io/<projectId>",
  integrations: [
    Sentry.electronNetIntegration({
      breadcrumbs: false,
      tracing: (method) => method == "POST",
    }),
  ],
});
```

## [Spans](https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/javascript/guides/electron/configuration/integrations/net.md#spans)

The integration creates `http.client` spans with the same attributes as the spans that the Node.js and browser SDKs create for outgoing requests:

| Attribute             | Description                                     |
| --------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- |
| `http.request.method` | The request method, for example `GET`           |
| `url.full`            | The full request URL                            |
| `url.path`            | The path of the URL                             |
| `url.query`           | The query string of the URL, if there is one    |
| `url.scheme`          | The scheme of the URL, for example `https`      |
| `server.address`      | The host name of the server                     |
| `server.port`         | The port of the server, if the URL includes one |

In [stream mode](https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/javascript/guides/electron/tracing/streamed-spans.md), which is the default, the span name is the request method and the host name, for example `GET example.com`. The integration also creates spans when there is no active parent span.

In transaction mode (`traceLifecycle: 'static'`), the span name is the request method and the URL without the query string and the fragment. The integration only creates spans when there is an active parent span.

Before version `8.0.0` of the Electron SDK, these spans used the `url`, `http.method`, and `type` attributes, and the span name included the query string.