> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://sentrydocs.dev/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Sentry Documentation

> Detect, trace, and fix issues in your applications — faster.

Sentry is a developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring platform. Connect your application in minutes and start getting full visibility into errors, performance bottlenecks, crashes, and user experience issues in real time.

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  <Card title="Quick Start" icon="rocket" href="/quickstart">
    Set up Sentry in your app and capture your first event in under 5 minutes.
  </Card>

  <Card title="SDK Reference" icon="code" href="/sdk/overview">
    Explore SDKs for JavaScript, Python, Java, mobile, and more.
  </Card>

  <Card title="API Reference" icon="webhook" href="/api/authentication">
    Use the Sentry REST API to query issues, manage releases, and automate workflows.
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  <Card title="Integrations" icon="plug" href="/integrations/overview">
    Connect Sentry to Slack, GitHub, Jira, PagerDuty, and dozens of other tools.
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## Get started in 4 steps

<Steps>
  <Step title="Create a Sentry account">
    Sign up at [sentry.io](https://sentry.io) and create your organization. Sentry is free for small teams with generous limits.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Create a project">
    Inside your organization, create a project for your application and choose your platform (JavaScript, Python, Java, etc.).
  </Step>

  <Step title="Install the SDK">
    Add the Sentry SDK to your codebase using your package manager of choice and initialize it with your project's DSN.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Trigger a test event">
    Throw a test error and confirm it appears in your Sentry dashboard. You're now capturing issues in production.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## What you can do with Sentry

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  <Card title="Error Monitoring" icon="bug" href="/features/error-monitoring">
    Capture unhandled exceptions with full stack traces, breadcrumbs, and user context.
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  <Card title="Performance Monitoring" icon="gauge-high" href="/features/performance">
    Trace slow transactions, detect N+1 queries, and profile your application's bottlenecks.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Session Replay" icon="video" href="/features/session-replay">
    Watch pixel-perfect replays of user sessions to understand exactly what happened before an error.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Cron Monitoring" icon="clock" href="/features/crons">
    Monitor scheduled jobs and get alerted when they fail, run too long, or don't run at all.
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  <Card title="Uptime Monitoring" icon="signal" href="/features/uptime">
    Continuously check your endpoints for availability and get instant alerts on downtime.
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  <Card title="Profiling" icon="chart-line" href="/features/profiling">
    Find performance bottlenecks down to the function level with continuous profiling.
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