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Quick Summary

Application error tracking and performance monitoring for developers.

Best for: Application error tracking
Time to first integration: 10 minutes

📋Prerequisites

  • Node.js 18+ installed
  • A Sentry account — sign up here
  • An existing project (Next.js, React, or Node.js recommended)

Setup Steps

3 steps
1

Run the setup wizard

The wizard detects your framework and writes the config for you.

bash
npx @sentry/wizard@latest -i nextjs
2

DSN is configured automatically

The wizard adds your project DSN to the generated Sentry config files.

3

Verify

Trigger a test error and confirm it appears in the Sentry dashboard.

typescript
throw new Error('Sentry test error')

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