Error Monitoring with Sentry — From Noise to Signal
Instrument releases
Tag every deploy with release versions and map errors to releases — regression detection (errors starting at v1.4.2) beats raw error counts for prioritization. Source maps uploaded in CI make stack traces readable; without them, minified traces waste everyone's time.
Alert routing that respects sleep
Critical (payment failures, auth outages) pages immediately; elevated error rates notify Slack; new-issue digests batch daily. Alert fatigue kills monitoring faster than any outage — tune thresholds monthly and delete alerts nobody acts on.
Issue hygiene rituals
Weekly triage: archive expected noise with rules, assign owners to real regressions, and track resolve-rate as a team metric. Resolve-in-the-same-sprint for regressions keeps the backlog honest and the product stable.
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