Set Up Metrics

Sentry metrics help you pinpoint and solve issues that impact user experience and app performance by measuring the data points that are important to you. You can track things like processing time, event size, user signups, and conversion rates, then correlate them back to tracing data in order to get deeper insights and solve issues faster.

Configure Metrics

To configure metrics, add the metricsAggregatorIntegration to your Sentry.init call.

Sentry.init({
  dsn: 'https://examplePublicKey@o0.ingest.sentry.io/0',
  integrations: [
    Sentry.metrics.metricsAggregatorIntegration(),
  ],
});

Emit a Counter

Counters are one of the more basic types of metrics and can be used to count certain event occurrences.

To emit a counter, do the following:

// Increment a counter by one for each button click.
Sentry.metrics.increment("button_click", 1, {
  tags: { browser: "Firefox", app_version: "1.0.0" },
});

Emit a Distribution

Distributions help you get the most insights from your data by allowing you to obtain aggregations such as p90, min, max, and avg.

To emit a distribution, do the following:

// Add '15.0' to a distribution used for tracking the loading times for component.
Sentry.metrics.distribution("component_load_time", 15.0, {
  tags: { type: "important" },
  unit: "millisecond",
});

Emit a Set

Sets are useful for looking at unique occurrences and counting the unique elements you added.

To emit a set, do the following:

// Add 'jane' to a set used for tracking the number of users that viewed a page.
Sentry.metrics.set("user_view", "jane");

Emit a Gauge

Gauges let you obtain aggregates like min, max, avg, sum, and count. They can be represented in a more space-efficient way than distributions, but they can't be used to get percentiles. If percentiles aren't important to you, we recommend using gauges.

To emit a gauge, do the following:

// Add 2 to a gauge tracking CPU usage.
Sentry.metrics.gauge("cpu_usage", 34, {
  tags: { os: "MacOS" },
  unit: "percent",
});

Supported Performance Metric Units

Adding a unit as a metric parameter will give meaning to what may otherwise look like abstract numbers. It also allows Sentry to offer controls - unit conversions, filters, and so on - based on the unit you select. You can pass a unit as an optional parameter of the third argument of the increment, distribution, set, and gauge methods. If a value has no units, you can supply an empty string or none.

The following units are understood by the Sentry backend, but you can add any arbitrary unit you want.

Duration Units

• nanosecond
• microsecond
• millisecond
• second
• minute
• hour
• day
• week

Information Units

• bit
• byte
• kilobyte
• kibibyte
• megabyte
• mebibyte
• gigabyte
• gibibyte
• terabyte
• tebibyte
• petabyte
• pebibyte
• exabyte
• exbibyte

Fraction Units

• ratio
• percent

You can find additional details about supported units in our event ingestion documentation.