Installation

Learn about the different methods available to install `sentry-cli`.

Depending on your platform, there are different methods available to install sentry-cli.

You can find the list of releases on the GitHub release page. We provide executables for Linux, OS X and Windows. It’s a single file download and upon receiving the file you can rename it to just sentry-cli or sentry-cli.exe to use it.

If you are on macOS or Linux, you can use the automated downloader which will fetch the latest release version for you and install it:

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curl -sL https://sentry.io/get-cli/ | sh

We do however, encourage you to pin the specific version of the CLI, so your builds are always reproducible. To do that, you can use the exact same method, with an additional version specifier:

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curl -sL https://sentry.io/get-cli/ | SENTRY_CLI_VERSION="2.51.0" sh

This will automatically download the correct version of sentry-cli for your operating system and install it. If necessary, it will prompt for your admin password for sudo. For a different installation location or for systems without sudo (like Windows), you can export INSTALL_DIR=/custom/installation/path before running this command.

To verify it's installed correctly you can bring up the help:

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sentry-cli --help

There is also the option to install sentry-cli via npm for specialized use cases. This, for instance, is useful for build servers. The package is called @sentry/cli and in the post installation it will download the appropriate release binary:

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npm install @sentry/cli

You can then find it in the .bin folder:

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./node_modules/.bin/sentry-cli --help

In case you want to install this with npm system wide with sudo you will need to pass --unsafe-perm to it:

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sudo npm install -g @sentry/cli --unsafe-perm

By default, this package will download sentry-cli from the CDN managed by Fastly. To use a custom CDN, set the npm config property sentrycli_cdnurl. The downloader will append "/<version>/sentry-cli-<dist>".

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npm install @sentry/cli --sentrycli_cdnurl=https://mymirror.local/path

Or add property into your .npmrc file (https://docs.npmjs.com/files/npmrc)

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sentrycli_cdnurl=https://mymirror.local/path

Another option is to use the environment variable SENTRYCLI_CDNURL.

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SENTRYCLI_CDNURL=https://mymirror.local/path npm install @sentry/cli

Options listed below control how sentry-cli install script behaves, when installed through npm.

SENTRYCLI_CDNURL:

If set, the script will use given URL for fetching the binary. Defaults to https://downloads.sentry-cdn.com/sentry-cli.

SENTRYCLI_USE_LOCAL:

If set to 1, sentry-cli binary will be discovered from your $PATH and copied locally instead of being downloaded from external servers. It will still verify the version number, which has to match.

SENTRYCLI_SKIP_DOWNLOAD:

If set to 1, the script will skip downloading the binary completely.

SENTRYCLI_SKIP_CHECKSUM_VALIDATION:

If set to 1, the script will skip the checksum validation phase. You can manually verify the checksums by visiting Build Checksums page.

SENTRYCLI_NO_PROGRESS_BAR:

If set to 1, the script will not display download progress bars. This is a default behavior for CI environments.

SENTRYCLI_LOG_STREAM:

If set, the script will change where it writes its output. Possible values are stdout and stderr. Defaults to stdout.

If you are on OS X, you can install sentry-cli via homebrew:

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brew install getsentry/tools/sentry-cli

If you are on Windows, you can install sentry-cli via Scoop:

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> scoop install sentry-cli

For unsupported distributions and CI systems, we offer a Docker image that comes with sentry-cli preinstalled. It is recommended to use the latest tag, but you can also pin to a specific version. By default, the command runs inside the /work directory. Mount relevant project folders and build outputs there to allow sentry-cli to scan for resources:

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docker pull getsentry/sentry-cli
docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/work getsentry/sentry-cli --help

You can use sentry-cli update and sentry-cli uninstall to update or uninstall the sentry-cli binary. These commands may be unavailable in certain situations, generally when sentry-cli has been installed by a tool like homebrew or yarn, either directly or as a dependency of another package. In those cases, the same tool will need to be used for updating and removal. If you find that sentry-cli update and sentry-cli uninstall aren't working and you don't know how the package was installed, running which sentry-cli will often provide a clue as to which tool to use.

When downloading an executable from a remote server, it's often a good practice to verify, that what has been downloaded, is in fact what we expect it to be. To make sure that this is the case, we can use checksum validation. A checksum is the value calculated from the contents of a file, in a form of hash, in our case SHA256, and it acts as the data integrity check, as it's always producing the same output, for a given input.

Below is the table of SHA256 checksums for all available build targets that our CLI supports. To calculate the hash of a downloaded file, you can use sha256sum utility, which is preinstalled in OSX and most Linux distributions.

Filename (v2.51.0)Integrity Checksum
sentry-cli-Darwin-arm64sha384-0af55f783aa0c906fd33b2344f960cc8f90273f27503d6b23f1cbfceb6e69c43
sentry-cli-Darwin-universalsha384-327498ca95237edc5eb6a0e666522f626922456c09298927ca201a13b3c824e4
sentry-cli-Darwin-x86_64sha384-da024b3b2db96dcdccf39fdfed351002a1d405a7b9780fc38574ebdee7115ddf
sentry-cli-Linux-aarch64sha384-6d7796308920458ee8c41f84b64e369e13214357924a10a5fcc1d5797cbca0f5
sentry-cli-Linux-armv7sha384-d1a7db9fd5a3277f46ba1d67fb1f0046321ee3aef292f7017b8f742af419de03
sentry-cli-Linux-i686sha384-e1a020db1a8f13dd72d4a3da906b5ce81c400112dc1b7852499d0d8f64d0232b
sentry-cli-Linux-x86_64sha384-507832f0f5066cb971119c2f4623b7adf32ee8013f4ffa90507ab93dbbcfc537
sentry-cli-Windows-aarch64.exesha384-4094a0289ddefa535f4b2907f9aa75ae95bbe3114c42cda3dc44e9de6223b979
sentry-cli-Windows-i686.exesha384-63d141ae349cf2d98a3930f9d4e6c19622232da506629190e5850c423baef1f4
sentry-cli-Windows-x86_64.exesha384-c32abbd511860369878b2f9a356d59488ca064d04a162755bf995d7a470e488c

If you would like to verify checksums for historic versions of the sentry-cli, please refer to our release registry directly, which can be found at https://release-registry.services.sentry.io/apps/sentry-cli/{version}. For example, https://release-registry.services.sentry.io/apps/sentry-cli/1.74.4.

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