
SE Radio 563: David Cramer on Error Tracking
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The Importance of Tracing
Sentry aims to infer everything. The reality is there was so much complexity and there's too many technologies in the world like I was complaining about this the other day. We will either leverage open telemetry, which is an open format spec that ideally has very high quality data or we can instrument libraries ourselves. It is a very imperfect science. Could it ever be good? I don't know in all honesty, but like the data quality is like all over the map. And so that's honestly one of our biggest challenges to making this experience better.
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