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Sentry is an open source monitoring project as well as a service that can be used to report errors in Python web apps.

[Sentry](https://docs.sentry.io/) is a [monitoring](/monitoring.html) 
service that you can set up to host yourself or used as a service to 
catch and report errors in your Python 
[web applications](/web-development.html).

<a href="https://docs.sentry.io/" style="border: none;"><img src="/img/logos/sentry-dark.png" width="100%" alt="Sentry logo." class="shot rnd" style="background:#111"></a>


### Sentry resources
* Sentry's [official Python docs](https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/python/)
  explain how to integrate the SDK into an application to send events to
  either your own server or the hosted service.

* [Sentry For Data: Error Monitoring with PySpark](https://blog.sentry.io/2019/11/12/sentry-for-data-error-monitoring-with-pyspark)
  shows an integration between the PySpark data analysis tool and
  Sentry for handling any issues.

