<i>sigh</i> - I really love sentry to bits. Very responsive support, all open source code, nice user interface, no nagging for additional services and very fair price (to the point where it's much cheaper to just host with them rather than trying to self-host, despite the thing being extremely well documented and fully supported for self-hosting).<p>I wonder what we'll lose first before they will eventually be sold to get the money back for the investors :(<p>Yes. I'm cynical, but it's always the same path in which good products eventually are shut down or get way too expensive.<p>On the other hand, I would be extremely happy if it was Sentry to prove to the world that you can in-fact take $9M in investment as an Open Source project and still stay independent, keep your original values and not be shut down by an eventual buyer.
$10 says the guy in the Christmas sweater is Ops/DevOps (I'm DevOps myself). :-) lol<p>The length of the beard is proportional to ops experience.
Congratulations guys! When I read that CCP Games was using Sentry on the PS3 for their multiplayer game Dust 514, I was pretty damn impressed.<p>Armin working there is what sealed the deal though - I've been following his work since I discovered Flask a few years back.<p>Long story short, I will be using Sentry for my next web app.
I had the pleasure of meeting Cramer and his team last year at their office and left convinced these guys are very talented. I look forward to seeing what they can do with $9 mill.
I think the biggest problem with Sentry is that it will sample exceptions (I wonder if there's a way to switch this off with $$$?), meaning that I can't rely on it to view and examine every instance. Sometimes you need to fix things manually which requires every exception to be saved.<p>Since I want to get every single exception logged, Sentry feels quite useless and I wouldn't select it for my next project.<p>Other than that it has been a fantastic tool.
I've built a mobile crash-reporting solution around self-hosted Sentry. (To my chagrin, I've been unable to open-source the bits I built around Sentry.) Sentry is a great product and David et al are a great team. I'm hoping them continued success.
Been using Sentry since early versions (even contributed some crappy plugins myself) and moved to hosted service immediately. Great tool, I am glad to hear this news!
Hah! I used to own this domain, planning to use it as a tool for uptime monitoring and statistics. I'm glad that someone else is making real use of it!
Great news! We've been using hosted Sentry for a while (couple of years) and it works really well for its price. Highly recommended.
P.S Has anyone tried Golang support yet?
Good for them!<p>On a side note, GCE has a similar feature with Stackdriver:
<a href="https://cloud.google.com/error-reporting/docs/viewing" rel="nofollow">https://cloud.google.com/error-reporting/docs/viewing</a>