Usage

Sentry's SDK hooks into your runtime environment and automatically reports errors, uncaught exceptions, and unhandled rejections as well as other types of errors depending on the platform.

The most common form of capturing is to capture errors. What can be captured as an error varies by platform. In general, if you have something that looks like an exception, it can be captured. For some SDKs, you can also omit the argument to captureException and Sentry will attempt to capture the current exception. It is also useful for manual reporting of errors or messages to Sentry.

While capturing an event, you can also record the breadcrumbs that lead up to that event. Breadcrumbs are different from events: they will not create an event in Sentry, but will be buffered until the next event is sent. Learn more about breadcrumbs in our Breadcrumbs documentation.

Capturing Errors

In Dart you can capture any exception object that you caught:

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import 'package:sentry/sentry.dart';

try {
  aMethodThatMightFail();
} catch (exception, stackTrace) {
  await Sentry.captureException(
    exception,
    stackTrace: stackTrace,
  );
}

Tips for Catching Errors

  • Use a try/catch block
  • Use a catchError block for Futures
  • The SDK already runs your init callback on an error handler, such as using runZonedGuarded, are captured automatically
  • Flutter-specific errors, such as using FlutterError.onError, are captured automatically
  • Isolate errors on the current Isolate which is the equivalent of a main/UI thread, such as using Isolate.current.addErrorListener, are captured automatically (only for non-Web Apps).
  • For your own Isolates, add an ErrorListener and call Sentry.captureException

Capturing Messages

Another common operation is to capture a bare message. A message is textual information that should be sent to Sentry. Typically messages are not emitted, but they can be useful for some teams.

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import 'package:sentry/sentry.dart';

await Sentry.captureMessage('Something went wrong');