Set Up Tracing

Learn how to enable tracing in your app and discover valuable performance insights of your application.

With tracing, Sentry tracks your software performance, measuring metrics like throughput and latency, and displaying the impact of errors across multiple systems. Sentry captures distributed traces consisting of transactions and spans, which measure individual services and individual operations within those services. Learn more about our model in Distributed Tracing.

Tracing is enabled by default in the React Native SDK.

Using older Sentry for React Native? Here is how to enabled Tracing

If you use a version of our SDK prior to version 3.0.0, you will need to include the ReactNativeTracing integration to use automatic instrumentation. You do not need to do this in versions 3.0.0 and above.

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import * as Sentry from "@sentry/react-native";

Sentry.init({
  dsn: "https://examplePublicKey@o0.ingest.sentry.io/0",

  integrations: [new Sentry.ReactNativeTracing()],
});

First, enable tracing and configure the sample rate for transactions. Set the sample rate for your transactions by either:

  • Setting a uniform sample rate for all transactions using the tracesSampleRate option in your SDK config to a number between 0 and 1. (For example, to send 20% of transactions, set tracesSampleRate to 0.2.)
  • Controlling the sample rate based on the transaction itself and the context in which it's captured, by providing a function to the tracesSampler config option.

The two options are meant to be mutually exclusive. If you set both, tracesSampler will take precedence.

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import * as Sentry from "@sentry/react-native";

// Unlike Sentry on other platforms, you do not need to import anything to use tracing on React Native

Sentry.init({
  dsn: "https://examplePublicKey@o0.ingest.sentry.io/0",

  // We recommend adjusting this value in production, or using tracesSampler
  // for finer control
  tracesSampleRate: 1.0,
});

Learn more about tracing options, how to use the tracesSampler function, or how to sample transactions.

Verify that tracing is working correctly by using our automatic instrumentation or by starting and finishing a transaction using custom instrumentation.

While you're testing, set tracesSampleRate to 1.0, as that ensures that every transaction will be sent to Sentry. Once testing is complete, you may want to set a lower tracesSampleRate value, or switch to using tracesSampler to selectively sample and filter your transactions, based on contextual data.

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