Next.js
Learn how to set up and configure Sentry in your Next.js application using the installation wizard, capture your first errors, and view them in Sentry.
You need:
In addition to capturing errors, you can monitor interactions between multiple services or applications by enabling tracing. You can also get to the root of an error or performance issue faster, by watching a video-like reproduction of a user session with session replay.
Send structured logs to Sentry and correlate them with errors and traces.
Select which Sentry features you'd like to configure to get the corresponding setup instructions below.
Run the command for your preferred path to add Sentry to your application.
npx @sentry/wizard@latest -i nextjs
The wizard then guides you through the setup process, asking you to enable additional (optional) Sentry features for your application beyond error monitoring.
If you want to expand on your Sentry configuration by adding additional functionality, or manually instrument your application, here are the configuration files the wizard would create. Initialize Sentry as early as possible.
instrumentation-client.(js|ts)
import * as Sentry from "@sentry/nextjs";
Sentry.init({
dsn: "https://examplePublicKey@o0.ingest.sentry.io/0",
// Adds request headers and IP for users, for more info visit:
// https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/javascript/guides/nextjs/configuration/options/#sendDefaultPii
sendDefaultPii: true,
integrations: [
// performance
Sentry.browserTracingIntegration(),
// performance
// session-replay
// Replay may only be enabled for the client-side
Sentry.replayIntegration(),
// session-replay
// user-feedback
Sentry.feedbackIntegration({
// Additional SDK configuration goes in here, for example:
colorScheme: "system",
}),
// user-feedback
],
// logs
// Enable logs to be sent to Sentry
enableLogs: true,
// logs
// performance
// Set tracesSampleRate to 1.0 to capture 100%
// of transactions for tracing.
// We recommend adjusting this value in production
// Learn more at
// https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/javascript/configuration/options/#traces-sample-rate
tracesSampleRate: 1.0,
// performance
// session-replay
// Capture Replay for 10% of all
// plus for 100% of sessions with an error
// Learn more at
// https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/javascript/session-replay/configuration/#general-integration-configuration
replaysSessionSampleRate: 0.1,
replaysOnErrorSampleRate: 1.0,
// session-replay
});
sentry.server.config.(js|ts)
import * as Sentry from "@sentry/nextjs";
Sentry.init({
dsn: "https://examplePublicKey@o0.ingest.sentry.io/0",
// Adds request headers and IP for users, for more info visit:
// https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/javascript/guides/nextjs/configuration/options/#sendDefaultPii
sendDefaultPii: true,
// logs
// Enable logs to be sent to Sentry
enableLogs: true,
// logs
// performance
// Set tracesSampleRate to 1.0 to capture 100%
// of transactions for tracing.
// We recommend adjusting this value in production
// Learn more at
// https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/javascript/configuration/options/#traces-sample-rate
tracesSampleRate: 1.0,
// performance
});
For detailed manual setup instructions, see our manual setup guide.
Make sure runtime errors are surfaced to Sentry using Next.js error components.
The installation wizard will scaffold these files for you if they are missing.
Structured logging lets users send text-based log information from their applications to Sentry. Once in Sentry, these logs can be viewed alongside relevant errors, searched by text-string, or searched using their individual attributes.
Use Sentry's logger to capture structured logs with meaningful attributes that help you debug issues and understand user behavior.
import * as Sentry from "@sentry/nextjs";
const { logger } = Sentry;
logger.info("User completed checkout", {
userId: 123,
orderId: "order_456",
amount: 99.99,
});
logger.error("Payment processing failed", {
errorCode: "CARD_DECLINED",
userId: 123,
attemptCount: 3,
});
logger.warn(logger.fmt`Rate limit exceeded for user: ${123}`);
Replays allow you to see video-like reproductions of user sessions.
By default, Session Replay masks sensitive data for privacy and to protect PII data. You can modify the replay configurations in your client-side Sentry initialization to show (unmask) specific content that's safe to display.
instrumentation-client.(js|ts)
import * as Sentry from "@sentry/nextjs";
Sentry.init({
dsn: "https://examplePublicKey@o0.ingest.sentry.io/0",
integrations: [
Sentry.replayIntegration({
// This will show the content of the div with the class "reveal-content" and the span with the data-safe-to-show attribute
unmask: [".reveal-content", "[data-safe-to-show]"],
// This will show all text content in replays. Use with caution.
maskAllText: false,
// This will show all media content in replays. Use with caution.
blockAllMedia: false,
}),
],
// Only capture replays for 10% of sessions
replaysSessionSampleRate: 0.1,
// Capture replays for 100% of sessions with an error
replaysOnErrorSampleRate: 1.0,
});
Tracing allows you to monitor interactions between multiple services or applications. Create custom spans to measure specific operations and add meaningful attributes. This helps you understand performance bottlenecks and debug issues with detailed context.
import * as Sentry from "@sentry/nextjs";
async function processUserData(userId) {
return await Sentry.startSpan(
{
name: "Process User Data",
op: "function",
attributes: {
userId: userId,
operation: "data_processing",
version: "2.1",
},
},
async () => {
const userData = await fetch(`/api/user?id=${userId}`).then((r) =>
r.json(),
);
return await Sentry.startSpan(
{
name: "Transform Data",
op: "transform",
attributes: {
recordCount: userData.length,
transformType: "normalize",
},
},
() => transformUserData(userData),
);
},
);
}
const span = Sentry.getActiveSpan();
if (span) {
span.setAttributes({
cacheHit: true,
region: "us-west-2",
performanceScore: 0.95,
});
}
If you haven't tested your Sentry configuration yet, let's do it now. You can confirm that Sentry is working properly and sending data to your Sentry project by using the example page and route created by the installation wizard:
- Open the example page
/sentry-example-page
in your browser. For most Next.js applications, this will be at localhost. - Click the "Throw error" button. This triggers two errors:
- a frontend error
- an error within the API route
Sentry captures both of these errors for you. Additionally, the button click starts a performance trace to measure the time it takes for the API request to complete.
Tip
Don't forget to explore the example files' code in your project to understand what's happening after your button click.
Now, head over to your project on Sentry.io to view the collected data (it takes a couple of moments for the data to appear).
Important
Errors triggered from within your browser's developer tools (like the browser console) are sandboxed, so they will not trigger Sentry's error monitoring.
At this point, you should have integrated Sentry into your Next.js application and should already be sending error and performance data to your Sentry project.
Now's a good time to customize your setup and look into more advanced topics. Our next recommended steps for you are:
- Learn about instrumenting Next.js server actions
- Learn how to manually capture errors
- Continue to customize your configuration
- Get familiar with Sentry's product features like tracing, insights, and alerts
- Learn more about our Vercel integration
Our documentation is open source and available on GitHub. Your contributions are welcome, whether fixing a typo (drat!) or suggesting an update ("yeah, this would be better").