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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.

  1. 1

    Create a project in the console. You get a DSN in the form https://PUBLIC_KEY@openerrorapi.com/PROJECT_ID.

  2. 2

    Replace the DSN in your existing Sentry.init() — usually one environment variable. Keep the SDK, the version and every option you already set.

  3. 3

    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/browser
Sentry.init({ dsn: 'https://PUBLIC_KEY@openerrorapi.com/PROJECT_ID' });

Node.js

npm i @sentry/node
Sentry.init({ dsn: 'https://PUBLIC_KEY@openerrorapi.com/PROJECT_ID' });

Python

pip install sentry-sdk
sentry_sdk.init(dsn="https://PUBLIC_KEY@openerrorapi.com/PROJECT_ID")

Go

go get github.com/getsentry/sentry-go
sentry.Init(sentry.ClientOptions{Dsn: "https://PUBLIC_KEY@openerrorapi.com/PROJECT_ID"})

Dart / Flutter

flutter pub add sentry_flutter
await 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.

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