Sentry migration guide

Migrate from Sentry to AllStak

A realistic Sentry migration takes an afternoon of setup and one sprint of running both tools side by side. Here is the exact process, with nothing glossed over.

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What a Sentry migration actually involves

If you are planning to migrate from Sentry, keep the official Sentry SDK and change its DSN to the value from AllStak project setup. Issues, breadcrumbs, releases, and environments keep their familiar model; validate source maps and alert rules during a staged cutover.

What you gain on the other side is consolidation: AllStak puts error tracking in the same platform as logs, distributed tracing, uptime checks, infrastructure monitoring, and session replay — capabilities that on the Sentry side either live in separate products or separate bills. This Sentry migration guide walks through the honest, complete process, including the one thing no vendor can do for you: historical data does not move.

Why teams switch from Sentry

These are the three reasons we hear most often from teams running a Sentry migration — all about the bill, the tool count, and the region.

Predictable pricing instead of event quotas

Sentry bills by event volume and per-seat tiers, so a noisy deploy or a growing team moves the bill. AllStak plans are flat and predictable, and you can see exactly what a month costs before it starts.

One platform, not a stack of subscriptions

Sentry covers errors, performance, and replay — then you still pay someone else for logs, uptime, and infrastructure. AllStak ships errors, logs, traces, uptime, infrastructure, and session replay in one product on one bill.

Built for Saudi and GCC teams

Saudi data residency, SAR pricing, and a dashboard your whole team can use in Arabic or English. For KSA and GCC organizations, that is a fit Sentry was never designed for.

How to migrate from Sentry, step by step

The whole cutover is six steps. Steps one through five are an afternoon; step six is the sprint of patience that makes the switch safe.

  1. 1

    Create an AllStak project and copy its DSN

    Create a project, open Get started, and copy its AllStak DSN. The DSN routes official Sentry SDK events to the selected project.

  2. 2

    Keep the official Sentry SDK

    Do not replace the maintained Sentry package. Keep its initialization and build plugins, then change only the configured DSN for the service being migrated.

  3. 3

    Confirm the official Sentry SDK for your stack

    Use the maintained official Sentry package for the runtime. For a Node.js service, install @sentry/node only if the application does not already have it.

    terminal
    npm install @sentry/node
  4. 4

    Set release and environment, then upload source maps

    Pass release and environment in the init so grouping and deploy tracking carry over from day one — the same discipline your Sentry releases gave you. For browser JavaScript, upload source maps so minified frames resolve to your original code.

    app.ts
    import * as Sentry from '@sentry/node';

Sentry.init({
  dsn: process.env.ALLSTAK_DSN,
  environment: process.env['NODE_ENV'] ?? 'production',
  release: process.env.APP_VERSION,
});
  5. 5

    Recreate your alert rules

    List your Sentry alert rules, then rebuild them as AllStak notification rules. Slack, email, webhooks, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, and Telegram are supported, so the same people get paged for the same conditions.

  6. 6

    Run both tools for a sprint, then cancel

    Keep Sentry alive for one sprint while AllStak collects in parallel. Compare what each catches, confirm every alert route fires, then cancel the Sentry subscription with confidence instead of hope.

Sentry concepts, mapped to AllStak

Use this table when updating runbooks and onboarding docs — almost everything has a direct equivalent.

SentryAllStak
IssuesErrors (grouped issues)Identical exceptions are fingerprinted and collapsed into one issue with an occurrence count.
BreadcrumbsBreadcrumbs
ReleasesReleasesSet the release in the SDK init to see which deploy introduced a regression.
Performance / TransactionsDistributed tracing & request performance
Session ReplaySession Replay
AlertsNotification rules
DSNAPI key

Sentry migration FAQ

Can I import my historical Sentry data?

No. Historical events stay in Sentry. Fresh events start arriving in AllStak after the official Sentry SDK uses the AllStak DSN, so validate one service at a time during cutover.

How long does a Sentry migration take?

Setup is typically an afternoon per service: swap the init, set release and environment, upload source maps, and rebuild alerts. The full migration is one sprint, because you should run both tools side by side before canceling.

Does AllStak support my framework?

AllStak has 25+ SDKs across Node.js, Python, React, Next.js, Laravel, Java, Go, and more, each with a setup guide. If you were running a Sentry SDK, there is almost certainly an AllStak equivalent for the same stack.

Will my error grouping carry over?

Grouping starts fresh: AllStak fingerprints incoming exceptions and collapses duplicates the same way you are used to, but it builds those groups from new events. Setting release and environment from day one keeps the grouping clean and deploy-aware.

Do source maps work the same way?

Yes in practice: you upload source maps per release, and minified browser stack traces resolve back to original file names and line numbers. Plan to wire the upload into your build pipeline, just as you did with Sentry.

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