I also recommend Sentry in a lot of projects. The happy path they have created is fantastic, they've grown it out into performance metrics and it looks like they're gonna compete with Datadog and NewRelic on the APM front soon enough.
They've not sold me on that, but their error tracking and the management around it is good enough. Their search interface and the fingerprinting sucks major ass though: most of the time when you click on a Sentry alert you'll actually find a different error.
The UI is basically only good for reacting to immediate alerts. But when you get one of those, you get a lot of info to work with.
I’ve been running Sentry (cloud and self hosted) for various Python apps since 2014 and haven’t had any issues with the fingerprinting. Maybe a language or project specific issue?
> Their search interface and the fingerprinting sucks major ass though: most of the time when you click on a Sentry alert you'll actually find a different error
Isn't that a scoping error on your side? We run the on-prem version at work, and the only time I've seen anything like this is when there weren't different scopes for each goroutine and the error messages got mixed up.
Why would you assume that companies following suit would make symbolic gestures rather than a culture/values shift?
This is a nuanced subject - companies won't just all start donation to OSS because of Sentry. But more and more companies taking leadership over time can compound into an industry perspective shift.
The only thing relevant is the result. Even if some companies start to do symbolic gestures and token donations, the result of Sentry making a positive action is even greater.
> Why would you assume that companies following suit would make symbolic gestures rather than a culture/values shift?
Because companies are generally managed by far worse people. Just this afternoon I stumbled across an email template framework on GitHub in which one of the issues posts had a responder remove HTML templates from a reply to a bug report because he said his boss claimed that was their "intellectual property."
Using an MIT licensed lib for free, think the plain ole html markup they generated with it is "valuable code," that's the CIS + MBA grads I know!
It's not even about the amount, since in the grand scheme of things, it's nothing.
It's about the leadership they are exercising and the influence it can have on other businesses.
Most of our daily work as programmers involves us benefiting from OSS, yet so few of us are part of a culture that values this kind of support.