Android Error and Performance Monitoring

Actionable insights to resolve Android performance bottlenecks and errors. Improve your monitoring workflow with a full view of releases so you can mark Android errors as resolved and prioritize live issues.

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Getting Started is Simple

Add the Sentry Android SDK to your build.gradle file:

// Make sure mavenCentral is there.
repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

// Enable Java 1.8 source compatibility if you haven't yet.
android {
    compileOptions {
        sourceCompatibility = JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
        targetCompatibility = JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
    }
}

// Add Sentry's SDK as a dependency.
dependencies {
    implementation 'io.sentry:sentry-android:<version number>'
}

Configure your SDK AndroidManifest.xml:

<application>
  <meta-data android:name="io.sentry.dsn" android:value="https://<key>@sentry.io/<project>" />
</application>

That’s it. Be sure to check out our documentation to ensure you have the latest instructions.

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Android Performance Monitoring

Quickly identify performance issues and view the full end-to-end distributed trace to see the exact poor-performing API call and what caused it with Performance Monitoring. Measure everything from warm starts to frozen frames so you can improve Android performance with max efficiency, not max effort.

Android Application Monitoring

See Android app crash reports with details like filename and line number so you never have to guess or dig through an Android error log. Filter and group Android exceptions intuitively to eliminate noise. Monitor errors at scale without impacting throughput in production.

Android Continuous Profiling

Get code-level insight into how your application performs in production environments on real user devices. Find the root cause of slowdowns and issues consuming the most resources, like CPU or memory, and affecting Android application performance on your user’s mobile device.

Complete Android Stack Traces

See an event trail to know what the app was doing before any error occurred. Record Android stack traces even when devices are offline or in airplane mode, then send errors as soon as connection is regained.

Android Crash Reporting

Improve workflow with a full view of releases so you can mark errors as resolved and prioritize live issues. Learn in which version a bug first appeared, merge duplicates, and know if things regress in a future release. Add commit data to automatically suggest an owner of each application error and instantly send deploy emails.

“Being able to use Sentry to monitor the performance as well as our mobile applications is important. Using one solution to monitor the entire application stack gives our engineers the visibility they need to deliver a first-rate experience for our customers.”

Debugging Any Android Exception

Sentry makes Android app development easier by recording environment and state details.

Recreate bugs down to screen orientation and resolution, Android version, and battery level.

Tag distribution makes it easy to prioritize any error by seeing how often it occurs in context.

FAQs

Traditional logging provides you with a trail of events. Some of those events are errors, but many times they’re simply informational. Sentry is fundamentally different because we focus on exceptions, or in other words, we capture application crashes. We discuss in more detail here and on our blog.

Sentry supports every major language, framework, and library. You can browse each of them here.

You can get started for free. Pricing depends on the number of monthly events, transactions, and attachments that you send Sentry. For more details, visit our pricing page.

Sentry doesn’t impact a web site’s performance.

If you look at the configuration options for when you initialize Sentry in your code, you’ll see there’s nothing regarding minimizing its impact on your app’s performance. This is because our team of SDK engineers already developed Sentry with this in mind.

Sentry is a listener/handler for errors that asynchronously sends out the error/event to Sentry.io. This is non-blocking. The error/event only goes out if this is an error.

Global handlers have almost no impact as well, as they are native APIs provided by the browsers.

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