Backend Tutorial

This step-by-step tutorial walks you through the flow of setting up and configuring your Sentry account to monitor errors in your Python backend application. As part of this tutorial, you will:

  • Add basic configurations to the Sentry SDK
  • Monitor various types of events and errors to Sentry
  • Implement error
    tracingThe process of logging the events that took place during a request, often across multiple services.
    between your frontend and backend applications

Alternatively, you can follow this guide as a reference and apply the relevant changes directly to your source code.

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