Sentry Nextjs SDK

Sentry Next.js SDK

Opinionated wizard that scans your Next.js project and guides you through complete Sentry setup across all three runtimes: browser, Node.js server, and Edge.

Invoke This Skill When

• User asks to "add Sentry to Next.js" or "set up Sentry" in a Next.js app
• User wants to install or configure @sentry/nextjs
• User wants error monitoring, tracing, session replay, logging, or profiling for Next.js
• User asks about instrumentation.ts, withSentryConfig(), or global-error.tsx
• User wants to capture server actions, server component errors, or edge runtime errors

Note: SDK versions and APIs below reflect current Sentry docs at time of writing (@sentry/nextjs ≥8.28.0). Always verify against docs.sentry.io/platforms/javascript/guides/nextjs/ before implementing.

Phase 1: Detect

Run these commands to understand the project before making any recommendations:

# Detect Next.js version and existing Sentry
cat package.json | grep -E '"next"|"@sentry/'

# Detect router type (App Router vs Pages Router)
ls src/app app src/pages pages 2>/dev/null

# Check for existing Sentry config files
ls instrumentation.ts instrumentation-client.ts sentry.server.config.ts sentry.edge.config.ts 2>/dev/null
ls src/instrumentation.ts src/instrumentation-client.ts 2>/dev/null

# Check next.config
ls next.config.ts next.config.js next.config.mjs 2>/dev/null

# Check for existing error boundaries
find . -name "global-error.tsx" -o -name "_error.tsx" 2>/dev/null | grep -v node_modules

# Check build tool
cat package.json | grep -E '"turbopack"|"webpack"'

# Check for logging libraries
cat package.json | grep -E '"pino"|"winston"|"bunyan"'

# Check for companion backend
ls ../backend ../server ../api 2>/dev/null
cat ../go.mod ../requirements.txt ../Gemfile 2>/dev/null | head -3

What to determine:

Phase 2: Recommend

Present a concrete recommendation based on what you found. Don't ask open-ended questions — lead with a proposal:

Recommended (core coverage):

• ✅ Error Monitoring — always; captures server errors, client errors, server actions, and unhandled promise rejections
• ✅ Tracing — server-side request tracing + client-side navigation spans across all runtimes
• ✅ Session Replay — recommended for user-facing apps; records sessions around errors

Optional (enhanced observability):

• ⚡ Logging — structured logs via Sentry.logger.*; recommend when pino/winston or log search is needed
• ⚡ Profiling — continuous profiling; requires Document-Policy: js-profiling header
• ⚡ AI Monitoring — OpenAI, Vercel AI SDK, Anthropic; recommend when AI/LLM calls detected
• ⚡ Crons — detect missed/failed scheduled jobs; recommend when cron patterns detected
• ⚡ Metrics — custom metrics via Sentry.metrics.*; recommend when custom KPIs or business metrics needed

Recommendation logic:

Propose: "I recommend setting up Error Monitoring + Tracing + Session Replay. Want me to also add Logging or Profiling?"

Phase 3: Guide

Option 1: Wizard (Recommended)

npx @sentry/wizard@latest -i nextjs

The wizard walks you through login, org/project selection, and auth token setup interactively — no manual token creation needed. It then installs the SDK, creates all necessary config files (instrumentation-client.ts, sentry.server.config.ts, sentry.edge.config.ts, instrumentation.ts), wraps next.config.ts with withSentryConfig(), configures source map upload, and adds a /sentry-example-page for verification.

Skip to [Verification](#verification) after running the wizard.

Option 2: Manual Setup

Install

npm install @sentry/nextjs --save

Create instrumentation-client.ts — Browser / Client Runtime

Older docs used sentry.client.config.ts — the current pattern is instrumentation-client.ts.

import * as Sentry from "@sentry/nextjs";

Sentry.init({
  dsn: process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_SENTRY_DSN ?? "___PUBLIC_DSN___",

  sendDefaultPii: true,

  // 100% in dev, 10% in production
  tracesSampleRate: process.env.NODE_ENV === "development" ? 1.0 : 0.1,

  // Session Replay: 10% of all sessions, 100% of sessions with errors
  replaysSessionSampleRate: 0.1,
  replaysOnErrorSampleRate: 1.0,

  enableLogs: true,

  integrations: [
    Sentry.replayIntegration(),
    // Optional: user feedback widget
    // Sentry.feedbackIntegration({ colorScheme: "system" }),
  ],
});

// Hook into App Router navigation transitions (App Router only)
export const onRouterTransitionStart = Sentry.captureRouterTransitionStart;

Create sentry.server.config.ts — Node.js Server Runtime

import * as Sentry from "@sentry/nextjs";

Sentry.init({
  dsn: process.env.SENTRY_DSN ?? "___DSN___",

  sendDefaultPii: true,
  tracesSampleRate: process.env.NODE_ENV === "development" ? 1.0 : 0.1,

  // Attach local variable values to stack frames
  includeLocalVariables: true,

  enableLogs: true,
});

Create sentry.edge.config.ts — Edge Runtime

import * as Sentry from "@sentry/nextjs";

Sentry.init({
  dsn: process.env.SENTRY_DSN ?? "___DSN___",

  sendDefaultPii: true,
  tracesSampleRate: process.env.NODE_ENV === "development" ? 1.0 : 0.1,

  enableLogs: true,
});

Create instrumentation.ts — Server-Side Registration Hook

Requires experimental.instrumentationHook: true in next.config for Next.js < 14.0.4. It's stable in 14.0.4+.

import * as Sentry from "@sentry/nextjs";

export async function register() {
  if (process.env.NEXT_RUNTIME === "nodejs") {
    await import("./sentry.server.config");
  }

  if (process.env.NEXT_RUNTIME === "edge") {
    await import("./sentry.edge.config");
  }
}

// Automatically captures all unhandled server-side request errors
// Requires @sentry/nextjs >= 8.28.0
export const onRequestError = Sentry.captureRequestError;

Runtime dispatch:

App Router: Create app/global-error.tsx

This catches errors in the root layout and React render errors:

"use client";

import * as Sentry from "@sentry/nextjs";
import NextError from "next/error";
import { useEffect } from "react";

export default function GlobalError({
  error,
}: {
  error: Error & { digest?: string };
}) {
  useEffect(() => {
    Sentry.captureException(error);
  }, [error]);

  return (
    <html>
      <body>