User Feedback

When a user experiences an error, Sentry provides the ability to collect additional feedback. You can collect feedback according to the method supported by the SDK.

Embeddable JavaScript Widget

Our embeddable JavaScript widget is useful when you may typically render a plain error page (the classic 500.html) on your website.

To collect feedback, the widget requests and collects the user's name, email address, and a description of what occurred. When feedback is provided, Sentry pairs the feedback with the original event, giving you additional insights into issues.

The screenshot below provides an example of the User Feedback widget, though yours may differ depending on your customization:

Integration

To integrate the widget, you'll need to be running version 2.1 or newer of our JavaScript SDK. The widget authenticates with your public DSN, then passes in the Event ID that was generated on your backend.

const { init, showReportDialog } = require("@sentry/electron");

init({
  dsn: "https://examplePublicKey@o0.ingest.sentry.io/0",
  beforeSend(event) {
    // Check if it is an exception, if so, show the report dialog
    // Note that this only will work in the renderer process, it's a noop on the main process
    if (event.exception) {
      showReportDialog();
    }
    return event;
  },
});

Customizing the Widget

You can customize the widget to your organization's needs, especially for localization purposes. All options can be passed through the showReportDialog call.

An override for Sentry’s automatic language detection (e.g. lang=de)

User Feedback API

If you'd prefer an alternative to the widget or do not have a JavaScript frontend, you can use the User Feedback API.