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.

Activate performance monitoring by setting enable_tracing to True.

Note that enable_tracing is available in Sentry Python SDK version ≥ 1.16.0. To enable tracing in older SDK versions (≥ 0.11.2), use traces_sample_rate=1.0.

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import sentry_sdk

sentry_sdk.init(
    dsn="https://examplePublicKey@o0.ingest.sentry.io/0",
    enable_tracing=True,
)

Learn more about performance monitoring options, how to use the traces_sampler function, or how to sample transactions.

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