Forrest Brazeal
Appearances
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Starbucks DVD peddlers (Friends)
When we first launched the ability to collect tracing data, we were really emphasizing the performance aspect of that, the kind of application performance monitoring aspect. Because you have these things that are spans that measure how long something takes.
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Starbucks DVD peddlers (Friends)
And so the natural thing is to try to graph their durations and think about their durations and warn somebody if the durations are getting too long. But what we've realized is that the performance stuff ends up being just a bunch of gauges to look at. And it's not super actionable.
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Starbucks DVD peddlers (Friends)
Sentry is all about this notion of debug ability and actually making it easier to fix the problem, not just sort of giving you more gauges. A lot of what we're trying to do now is focus a little bit less on the sort of just the performance monitoring side of things and turn tracing into a tool that actually aids the debug ability of problems.