Sentry SDK for Symfony
https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-symfony- Category
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- 737 stars
- Latest release
- 5.13.0
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About
Official Sentry Symfony bundle. Drop-in error tracking and performance monitoring for Symfony PHP apps.
What it does
It connects Symfony application events to Sentry, capturing exceptions and enriching them with request, console, logging, tracing, and runtime context. Applications install it through Composer, configure a Sentry DSN, and can also report caught exceptions explicitly.
Why it's ranked here
This is a strong choice for Symfony teams already using Sentry. It is the official integration, supports a broad PHP and Symfony range, and covers HTTP requests, console commands, persistent workers, logs, metrics, cache activity, database queries, templates, and outgoing HTTP calls.
What's good
Compatibility work is unusually thorough. Optional integrations use feature detection, while version-specific implementations preserve behavior across several Symfony and Doctrine generations. The project also runs PHPUnit, PHPStan, Psalm, formatting checks, and end-to-end coverage for sensitive lifecycle behavior.
Tradeoffs
The broad compatibility matrix creates maintenance complexity and version-specific exclusions in static analysis. Several useful tracing features require optional Symfony or Doctrine packages. Self-hosted Sentry must support the envelope endpoint, and the current major line requires the curl extension.
How to use it well
Use it in Symfony services that send diagnostics to Sentry and need framework-aware context across web requests, workers, console commands, logs, and traces. Test configuration changes across supported framework versions. It does not provide the Sentry ingestion service, storage, or diagnostic dashboard itself.
Technical notes+
composer.json defines a symfony-bundle package with PSR-4 autoloading, PHP ^7.2||^8.0, sentry/sentry ^4.23.0, and Symfony component constraints spanning 4.4 through 8. Its suggested packages enable Monolog delivery and tracing for Doctrine, Twig, and Symfony Cache. phpunit.xml points PHPUnit at the tests tree, enables strict output checks, and measures src. phpstan.neon analyzes both src and tests at level 9 but excludes several compatibility implementations and end-to-end fixtures. psalm.xml analyzes src at error level 4 with additional compatibility exclusions. AGENTS.md documents conditional optional-package support, private services, intentional listener priorities, and end-to-end expectations for request scope, tracing, logging, metrics, and console behavior. CHANGELOG.md records runtime-context isolation for persistent HTTP workers and Messenger messages.
Observed
- License
- MIT
- Primary language
- PHP
- Packaging
- Composer package sentry/sentry-symfony with package type symfony-bundle
- Install surface
- Installed with Composer and configured with a Sentry DSN
- Interface
- Symfony library and bundle with explicit PHP exception capture support
- PHP support
- Requires PHP 7.2 or PHP 8
- Symfony support
- Core Symfony component constraints cover Symfony 4.4 through 8
- Quality structure
- Repository configuration includes PHPUnit, PHPStan, Psalm, formatting checks, unit tests, and end-to-end tests
Read from README.md, composer.json, AUTHORS, LICENSE, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, psalm.xml, .craft.yml, codecov.yml, phpunit.xml, CHANGELOG.md, phpstan.neon, UPGRADE-3.0.md, UPGRADE-4.0.md, UPGRADE-5.0.md.
What it can do
Capture and track runtime errors
PHP exceptions and errors from Symfony application → Error reports with stack traces and context data
Monitor application performance
HTTP requests and database queries in Symfony app → Performance metrics and transaction traces
Track custom events and breadcrumbs
User-defined events and application state changes → Chronological event timeline for debugging
Filter and sample error data
Error events and sampling configuration → Reduced dataset based on filtering rules
Enrich error context with user data
Error events and user session information → Enhanced error reports with user context
Integrate with Symfony's profiler
Symfony debug toolbar and profiler requests → Sentry data displayed in Symfony profiler interface
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