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OpenErrorAPI speaks the Sentry wire protocol, so you keep the official SDK you already use and change one line: the DSN. This page says how, and — just as importantly — what we do not support.
Switch from Sentry in 10 minutes
There is no SDK to replace and no code to rewrite. You point the SDK you already have at a different DSN.
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Create a project in the console. You get a DSN in the form https://PUBLIC_KEY@openerrorapi.com/PROJECT_ID.
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Replace the DSN in your existing Sentry.init() — usually one environment variable. Keep the SDK, the version and every option you already set.
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Deploy and trigger one error. It shows up in the console within a second, grouped like it was in Sentry.
PHP
composer require sentry/sentry\Sentry\init(['dsn' => 'https://PUBLIC_KEY@openerrorapi.com/PROJECT_ID']);JavaScript / TypeScript
npm i @sentry/browserSentry.init({ dsn: 'https://PUBLIC_KEY@openerrorapi.com/PROJECT_ID' });Node.js
npm i @sentry/nodeSentry.init({ dsn: 'https://PUBLIC_KEY@openerrorapi.com/PROJECT_ID' });Python
pip install sentry-sdksentry_sdk.init(dsn="https://PUBLIC_KEY@openerrorapi.com/PROJECT_ID")Go
go get github.com/getsentry/sentry-gosentry.Init(sentry.ClientOptions{Dsn: "https://PUBLIC_KEY@openerrorapi.com/PROJECT_ID"})Dart / Flutter
flutter pub add sentry_flutterawait SentryFlutter.init((o) => o.dsn = 'https://PUBLIC_KEY@openerrorapi.com/PROJECT_ID');Already uploading source maps with sentry-cli? Keep that step too — set SENTRY_URL to https://openerrorapi.com and use an upload token as SENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN.
Sentry compatibility, honestly
Compatibility is the whole promise, which makes it the most dangerous thing to overstate. This table is generated from the same source the code and our machine-readable docs use, so it cannot quietly drift from reality.
7 areas fully supported · 3 partial · 3 not supported.
| Area | Status | Detail |
|---|---|---|
Envelope ingest (/api/{id}/envelope/) |
Supported | The modern endpoint every current SDK uses. Gzip/deflate bodies, multiple items per envelope, all three auth methods (X-Sentry-Auth header, querystring, envelope dsn header). |
Store ingest (/api/{id}/store/) |
Supported | Legacy endpoint for older SDKs. Same processing pipeline as envelopes. |
| Error events & grouping | Supported | Exceptions, messages, stack traces, tags, user, contexts, breadcrumbs, request. Grouping by fingerprint with an explicit `fingerprint[]` override. |
| Sessions / release health | Supported | Session envelope items are processed; crash-free sessions and users are shown per release. Available from the Team plan. |
| Security reports (CSP) | Supported | CSP violation reports are stored and grouped like any other issue. Point report-uri at /api/{project_id}/security/?sentry_key={PUBLIC_KEY} — the browser cannot send headers, so the key goes in the URL. Both the classic csp-report body and the Reporting API array are accepted. |
| Source maps | Supported | Upload via our API, from the console, or with sentry-cli. Frames are de-minified on read, so uploading a map fixes old events too. |
sentry-cli |
Partial | Releases (new / finalize / set-commits) and source-map upload work unchanged. Chunked upload is not implemented — sentry-cli detects that and falls back to the regular upload automatically. |
| User feedback widget | Supported | Embeddable widget; reports land next to the errors they belong to. |
| Transactions / performance | Partial | Transaction envelope items are accepted so SDKs do not error, but we do not build a performance product on top of them. If you need distributed tracing, keep Sentry — we are an error tracker. |
Logs (log envelope items) |
Not supported | Not processed yet. Log items are ignored, which does not affect error reporting from the same SDK. |
Cron monitors (check_in items) |
Partial | We have our own cron/heartbeat monitoring in the console, but the Sentry `check_in` envelope item is not wired to it yet. |
| Profiling, session replay | Not supported | Deliberately out of scope. These are the reasons to stay on Sentry; we do not pretend otherwise. |
| Native symbolication (dSYM / ProGuard) | Not supported | Not supported. Native mobile crashes arrive, but stay unsymbolicated. |