Integrate Spike with Sentry

Connect Sentry to Spike and get real-time incident alerts over phone calls, SMS, Slack, and more to the on-call responder.

Sentry is a powerful error monitoring and performance tracking platform designed for developers. It provides real-time insights into application issues, helping teams identify, troubleshoot, and resolve errors quickly. With detailed stack traces, performance metrics, and contextual data, Sentry ensures that you can proactively manage your application's health and deliver a seamless user experience.

Overview

The Spike integration with Sentry bridges error monitoring and incident response. Connect Sentry to Spike to automatically trigger real-time incident alerts for critical errors.

You can setup Spike with Sentry in two ways.

1. Single-click install on Sentry

2. Connect with Spike webhook (paste webhook on Sentry)

Integrating with multiple projects on Sentry

Multiple projects on Sentry

To integrate multiple projects on Sentry with Spike, you will need to use both Spike app on Sentry and the webhook integration.

Consider you have services A,B, and C to integrate with Sentry.

Service A: Utilize Sentry's 1-click app for a streamlined integration. This is limited to a single project on Sentry.

Services B, C and so on..: Establish a webhook integration by creating it on Spike and subsequently configuring it in Sentry.

The 1-click app offers an effortless setup for one project, while the webhook integration allows for unrestricted application across multiple projects.

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How to set up?

To set up, you will need a Sentry integration on Spike no matter which way you choose. So please make sure you have created one on Spike

1. Single-click install on Sentry

Installation steps

• Install and connect

  • On Sentry, go to settings > Integrations

  • Locate the Spike integration and click to begin setup.

  • Sentry will redirect you to Spike, where you can select an existing Sentry integration to connect with your Sentry account.

  • Choose your integration on Spike and complete the installation process.

• Route alerts from Sentry

  • Once the installation is verified, go to the Alerts section in Sentry and configure alert rules to start receiving alerts on Spike.

  • Add your conditions for alerts and in actions select Send a notification via an integration and then Select Spike.

Installation with images

• On Sentry, go to settings > Integrations and install our native Spike Integration

Select Spike in your Sentry account

• Sentry will redirect you to Spike to select an existing Sentry integration that should be connected to your Sentry account.

Select integration on Spike

• Once you have installed and the installation is verified, visit Alerts section in your Sentry account and click on Create Alert rule.

Select alerts from sidebar

• Add your conditions for alerts and in actions select Send a notification via an integration and then Select Spike.

• Test by generating a new error on Sentry.

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2. Integrating with Sentry's webhook

Set up steps

• On Sentry

  • On your Sentry account, navigate to Settings > Integrations and select Webhook.

  • Paste the webhook URL copied from Spike into the Webhook field in Sentry's integration settings.

  • Enable the plugin to activate the integration.

• Configure alert rules

  • Go to the Alerts section in the Sentry sidebar and select Create Alert Rule.

  • Define the conditions under which alerts should be triggered.

  • In the Actions section, select Send a notification via an integration and choose the Spike webhook integration.

Set up with images

Step 1: On Sentry, go to settings > Integrations and select Webhook

Webhooks on Sentry

Add to project

Paste your copied webhook from Spike to Sentry's webhook integration.

Paste Spike webhook on Sentry

Do not forget to Enable the plugin

Step 2: Set up alerts

Visit Sentry's new Alerts section from the sidebar and select Create Alert Rule

Add your conditions for alerts and in actions select Send a notification via an integration

Select notification via Integration for Webhook

This is how the end result might look

Spike webook integration on Sentry

• Test by generating a new error on Sentry.

FAQs

Why create a Sentry integration on Spike?

Creating a Sentry integration on Spike allows you to group and suppress incidents effectively, ensuring better incident management.

Is there a limit on Sentry integrations?

Single-click install: Only one integration is allowed per Sentry account.

Sentry webhook integration: Unlimited integrations are supported.

Does resolving the incident on Spike resolve the error on Sentry?

No. Sorry, we currently don't support bi-directional integration with Sentry.