Resources>Video

Inside Look: How Sentry debugs with Sentry

Published: Jul 10, 2024

Watch Sentry engineer Yagiz Nizipli use Sentry to fix Sentry. In this session, he demoed how he identified and optimized critical pipeline tasks, saving $160,000 per year.

Yagiz walked through the step-by-step process he followed, including:

  • Identifying the costly “save_event_transaction” task with Metrics

  • Using Tracing to pinpoint the root cause: an inefficient cache setting function

  • The improvements he made, including caching, improving traffic distribution, and enabling background threads

Throughout the workshop, Yagiz also shared tips and best practices for using Tracing to uncover performance bottlenecks and drive continuous improvement across our own services.

featuring

  • Yagiz Nizipli

    Sentry

    @yagiznizipli
  • Lazar Nikolov

    Senior Developer Relations Advocate, Sentry

    @NikolovLazar

Listen to the Syntax Podcast

Of course we sponsor a developer podcast. Check it out on your favorite listening platform.

Listen To Syntax
© 2025 • Sentry is a registered Trademark of Functional Software, Inc.