Use the SDK only with error reporting mode

[vpmedia]

Problem Statement

I would like to have the ability to use the Sentry SDK with only error reporting mode:

• No tracing
• No metrics
• No logs
• No OpenTelemetry dependency

Rationale: I already have a working OpenTelemetry setup which includes these functionalities.

As you state in the following documentation using multiple APM tools is discouraged and our company is opting to use OTEL and not Sentry for tracing/metrics/logs, but we are really happy to use it for error tracking and reporting:
https://sentry.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/23961784367387-Is-it-okay-to-run-multiple-APM-tools-in-parallel

Solution Brainstorm

Add an exported initialize (e.g. initErrorReporting) method which only bootstraps the error reporting.

Additional Context

The newly added node-core/light pkg somehow covers this but still includes logs and metrics which I don't want to use at all.

Priority

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JS-1720

[andreiborza]

Hey @vpmedia, you can just disable metrics in your init. Logs are off by default.

import * as Sentry from '@sentry/node-core/light';

Sentry.init({
   ...,
   enableMetrics: false
})

See https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/javascript/guides/node/metrics/#disable-metrics. Does that not work for your setup?

[vpmedia]

@andreiborza Till now I used the following snippet to initialize my Sentry Node.js SDK without OTEL:

export const initSentry = () => {
  const dsn = config.SENTRY_DSN;
  const environment = config.APP_ENVIRONMENT;
  const release = getRelease();
  const integrations = [...getDefaultIntegrationsWithoutPerformance(), extraErrorDataIntegration()];
  const client = initWithoutDefaultIntegrations({
    dsn,
    environment,
    release,
    skipOpenTelemetrySetup: true,
    integrations,
  });
  return client;
};

I'll check out the node-core/light version soon.
But what about the Browser SDK? Is there a released solution to exclude OTEL for my browser clients?

Additionally we are using multi-language applications, I want to do the same for .NET, Python, etc..
fyi: I created a python sdk ticket for the same feature:
getsentry/sentry-python#5469

To sum up, our company needs a uniform solution to completely exclude OTEL integration and anything traces/metrics/logs related because we are using sentry for error reporting only across our complete software stack (js client/server, python and .net apps).

[andreiborza]

You can replace this with @sentry/node-core/light yea. Don't need to set skipOpenTelemetrySetup either.

As for browser: our browser SDKs don't use OpenTelemetry, so nothing to do there. See our dependencies here:

sentry-javascript/packages/browser/package.json

Lines 46 to 52 in 1063860

	"dependencies": {
	"@sentry-internal/browser-utils": "10.39.0",
	"@sentry-internal/feedback": "10.39.0",
	"@sentry-internal/replay": "10.39.0",
	"@sentry-internal/replay-canvas": "10.39.0",
	"@sentry/core": "10.39.0"
	},

For other SDKs, it's best to tackle this in their respective repos.

[vpmedia]

@andreiborza great, thanks!