Sentry Laravel SDK
https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-laravel- Category
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- 4.27.0
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About
Official Laravel SDK for Sentry — adds error monitoring and performance tracking to your PHP app with a few lines of config.
What it does
This Composer library adapts Sentry’s PHP client to Laravel and Lumen. It captures unhandled and manually reported exceptions, enriches events with framework context, and instruments work such as database queries, queues, views, cache operations, notifications, HTTP requests, scheduled jobs, logs, metrics, and optional AI interactions.
Why it's ranked here
The SDK is a strong choice when a Laravel application already uses Sentry. It covers far more than exception reporting, supports many framework generations, and guards integrations with optional Laravel packages. Its value depends on accepting Sentry as the destination and managing a broad configuration surface.
What's good
Instrumentation reaches common Laravel execution paths instead of stopping at web requests. Queue jobs, SQL, views, Livewire, cache, Redis, notifications, storage, schedules, and HTTP clients receive targeted handling. Optional integrations are guarded, while tests span multiple PHP, Laravel, and PHPUnit generations. Privacy-sensitive SQL bindings and personal information remain disabled by default.
Tradeoffs
Laravel 11 and newer still require an explicit exception-handling setup step. Compatibility across Laravel 6 through 13 creates substantial conditional behavior, and some optional integrations have only partial coverage. Static analysis runs at a low level with a baseline of known errors. Several tracing features default on, so teams should inspect sampling, privacy, and overhead settings.
How to use it well
Use it in Laravel or Lumen services whose operators want application failures, traces, logs, metrics, and scheduled-job signals collected by Sentry. Start with exception capture, then enable sampling and inspect each automatic integration against privacy and cost needs. It does not provide a runnable application or replace the Sentry destination itself.
Technical notes+
composer.json declares a Composer library named sentry/sentry-laravel, requires PHP ^7.2 | ^8.0, illuminate/support ^6.0 through ^13.0, and sentry/sentry ^4.28.0, with PSR-0 loading from src/. Laravel package discovery registers Sentry\Laravel\ServiceProvider and Sentry\Laravel\Tracing\ServiceProvider. README.md documents Integration::handles($exceptions) for unhandled exceptions and the sentry:publish Artisan command. config/sentry.php exposes sampling, logs, metrics, breadcrumbs, privacy, and detailed tracing switches. phpunit.xml runs test/Sentry/ with strict output checking, while composer.json provides PHPUnit, PHPStan, and PHP-CS-Fixer scripts. phpstan.neon analyzes src at level 1 using phpstan-baseline.neon.
Observed
- License
- MIT
- Primary language
- PHP
- Package type
- Composer library
- Install surface
- Composer package sentry/sentry-laravel
- Interfaces
- Laravel library integration plus an Artisan configuration command
- Framework support
- illuminate/support versions 6 through 13
- Runtime support
- PHP 7.2 and PHP 8.x are allowed by the package constraint
- Test structure
- PHPUnit suite under test/Sentry with Orchestra Testbench development support
Read from README.md, Makefile, composer.json, LICENSE, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, .craft.yml, codecov.yml, phpunit.xml, CHANGELOG.md, phpstan.neon, CONTRIBUTING.md, .php-cs-fixer.php, phpstan-baseline.neon, config/sentry.php.
What it can do
Monitor and capture PHP application errors
PHP exceptions and errors from Laravel application → Error reports sent to Sentry dashboard
Track application performance metrics
Laravel application requests and database queries → Performance data and transaction traces
Capture custom error events
Custom exceptions and error messages from code → Structured error reports with context data
Monitor database query performance
Laravel Eloquent and database queries → Query execution times and performance insights
Track user context with errors
User session data and request information → Error reports enriched with user and request context
Configure error filtering and sampling
SDK configuration settings → Filtered error collection based on rules and sample rates
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