What CoIsland watches in Sentry

Each monitor kind brings its own query and its own card in the notch.

How to monitor Sentry from your Mac’s notch

Sentry already knows when an error is new, when a resolved one comes back, when a cron misses its run or a site goes down: it opens an issue. A CoIsland monitor runs one issue search on a schedule and opens the notch only when an issue enters it, with its level, events and users on the card.

Connect Sentry covers the token, every field and every kind. The GitHub connector and the Jira connector work the same way; all connectors share one page.

Connect it in three steps

  1. Create a personal token in Sentry with Read on Organization, Project, Issue & Event and Alerts.

  2. Add a Sentry connector with your organization's slug. Test connector finds its region, US or EU.

  3. Pick a monitor kind or an example, choose projects and environments, and when it alerts.

Built for Sentry

  • sentry.io in the US or EU region, and self-hosted Sentry.
  • Read only: it never resolves, assigns or comments on an issue.
  • Sentry's own thresholds decide when a cron, uptime or metric monitor trips.
  • The token stays in the macOS Keychain and goes only to your Sentry.

Then hand it to an agent

A click on the alert opens the agent in a terminal under it, with the whole alert as its first message.

Sentry questions

Does a Sentry connector need an organization admin?

No. Any member can create a personal token, bound to them and never reaching further than their own permissions. An organization token, made for CI, cannot read issues, and CoIsland refuses one.

Can CoIsland tell me when a Sentry cron job fails?

Yes. Sentry opens an issue when a cron check-in fails or is missed, and the Crons, uptime & metric monitor alerts when that issue opens or regresses, with the thresholds you set on the monitor in Sentry.

Does CoIsland work with Sentry's EU region and self-hosted Sentry?

Yes. Leave the address as sentry.io and Test connector finds whether the organization lives in us.sentry.io or de.sentry.io. For a self-hosted Sentry, enter its https address.

How often does CoIsland check Sentry?

Each monitor on its own schedule. Sentry rate-limits its API, so check every minute or more; every 5 minutes suits most. A check is one request for 100 issues.

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