Implementation Details

How it Works

When Sentry is added to a Lambda function, the following modifications are made to your Lambda functions:

• The layer for Sentry is added to your Lambdas. Any existing layers are honored and the Sentry layer is appended to the end.

  

• Sentry adds the following environment variables

  • NODE_OPTIONS: This is to preload the awslambda-auto module which will automatically initialize Sentry
  • SENTRY_DSN: This is set to the DSN of your project
  • SENTRY_TRACES_SAMPLE_RATE: This sets the sampling rate for transactions. You can manually edit your environment variables if you want a different sampling rate.