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// If you're using one of our integration packages, like `@sentry/angular`,
// substitute its name for `@sentry/browser` here
import * as Sentry from "@sentry/browser";
import { Integrations as TracingIntegrations } from "@sentry/tracing"; // Must import second

Sentry.init({
  dsn: "https://examplePublicKey@o0.ingest.sentry.io/0",

  integrations: [
    new TracingIntegrations.BrowserTracing({
      tracingOrigins: ["localhost", "my-site-url.com", /^\//],
      // ... other options
    }),
  ],

  // We recommend adjusting this value in production, or using tracesSampler
  // for finer control
  tracesSampleRate: 1.0,
});

Configuration Options

Supported options:

tracingOrigins

The default value of tracingOrigins is ['localhost', /^\//]. The JavaScript SDK will attach the sentry-trace header to all outgoing XHR/fetch requests whose destination contains a string in the list or matches a regex in the list. If your frontend is making requests to a different domain, you will need to add it there to propagate the sentry-trace header to the backend services, which is required to link transactions together as part of a single trace. The tracingOrigins option matches against the whole request URL, not just the domain. Using stricter regex to match certain parts of the URL ensures that requests do not unnecessarily have the sentry-trace header attached.

Sentry.init({
  // ...
  integrations: [
    new Integrations.BrowserTracing({
      tracingOrigins: ["api.example.com"],
    }),
  ],
});

You will need to configure your web server CORS to allow the sentry-trace header. The configuration might look like "Access-Control-Allow-Headers: sentry-trace", but the configuration depends on your set up. If you do not allow the sentry-trace header, the request might be blocked.

beforeNavigate

beforeNavigate is called at the start of every pageload or navigation transaction, and is passed an object containing the data with the transaction will be started. Using beforeNavigate gives you the option to modify that data, or drop the transaction entirely by returning undefined.

Sentry.init({
  // ...
  integrations: [
    new Integrations.BrowserTracing({
      beforeNavigate: context => {
        return {
          ...context,
          // You could use your UI's routing library to find the matching
          // route template here. We don't have one right now, so do some basic
          // parameter replacements.
          name: location.pathname
            .replace(/\/[a-f0-9]{32}/g, "/<hash>")
            .replace(/\/\d+/g, "/<digits>"),
        };
      },
    }),
  ],
});

shouldCreateSpanForRequest

This function can be used to filter out unwanted spans such as XHR's running health checks or something similar. Whether specified or not, shouldCreateSpanForRequest filters out everything but what was defined in tracingOrigins.

Sentry.init({
  // ...
  integrations: [
    new Integrations.BrowserTracing({
      shouldCreateSpanForRequest: url => {
        // Do not create spans for outgoing requests to a `/health/` endpoint
        return !url.match(/\/health\/?$/);
      },
    }),
  ],
});

idleTimeout

The idle time, measured in ms, to wait until the transaction will be finished. The transaction will use the end timestamp of the last finished span as the endtime for the transaction.

The default is 1000.

startTransactionOnLocationChange

This flag enables or disables creation of navigation transaction on history changes.

The default is true.

startTransactionOnPageLoad

This flag enables or disables creation of pageload transaction on first pageload.

The default is true.

maxTransactionDuration

The maximum duration of a transaction, measured in seconds, before it will be marked as "deadline_exceeded". If you never want transactions marked that way, set maxTransactionDuration to 0.

The default is 600.

markBackgroundTransactions

This option flags transactions when tabs are moved to the background with "cancelled". Because browser background tab timing is not suited for precise measurements of operations and can affect your statistics in nondeterministic ways, we recommend that this option be enabled.

The default is true.