sentry-rate-limits

Manage Sentry rate limits, quotas, and event volume optimization. Use when hitting 429 errors, tuning sampleRate/tracesSampleRate, filtering noisy browser errors with beforeSend, configuring inbound data filters, setting per-key rate limits, or monitoring quota usage via the Sentry stats API. Trigger: "sentry rate limit", "sentry quota", "reduce sentry events", "sentry 429", "sentry spike protection", "sentry sampling".

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name	sentry-rate-limits
description	Manage Sentry rate limits, quotas, and event volume optimization. Use when hitting 429 errors, tuning sampleRate/tracesSampleRate, filtering noisy browser errors with beforeSend, configuring inbound data filters, setting per-key rate limits, or monitoring quota usage via the Sentry stats API. Trigger: "sentry rate limit", "sentry quota", "reduce sentry events", "sentry 429", "sentry spike protection", "sentry sampling".
allowed-tools	Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob, Bash(curl:), Bash(node:), Bash(python3:), Bash(pip:)
version	1.51.0
license	MIT
author	Jeremy Longshore <jeremy@intentsolutions.io>
tags	["saas","sentry","cost-optimization","rate-limiting","quotas","observability"]
compatibility	Designed for Claude Code, also compatible with Codex and OpenClaw

Sentry Rate Limits & Quota Optimization

Overview

Manage Sentry rate limits, sampling strategies, and quota usage to control costs without losing visibility into critical errors. Covers client-side sampling, beforeSend filtering, server-side inbound filters, per-key rate limits, spike protection, and the usage stats API.

Prerequisites

Sentry account with a project DSN configured
SENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN with org:read and project:write scopes (Settings > Auth Tokens)
SENTRY_ORG and SENTRY_PROJECT slugs known
SDK installed: @sentry/node (npm) or sentry-sdk (pip)
Current event volume visible at sentry.io/stats/

Instructions

Step 1 — Understand Rate Limit Behavior

When your project exceeds its quota, Sentry returns 429 Too Many Requests with a Retry-After header. The SDK automatically stops sending events until the cooldown expires. Events generated during this window are permanently lost — there is no replay mechanism.

Rate limit tiers by plan:

Plan	API Rate Limit	Notes
Developer	50 RPM	Shared quota, no reserved volume
Team	1,000 RPM	Per-organization, includes spike protection
Business	10,000 RPM	Per-organization, custom quotas available
Enterprise	Custom	Negotiated per contract

Quota categories (billed separately):

Errors — exceptions and log messages
Transactions — performance monitoring spans
Replays — session replay recordings
Attachments — file uploads (crash dumps, minidumps)
Profiles — continuous profiling data
Cron monitors — scheduled job check-ins

Rate limit headers returned on 429:

HTTP/1.1 429 Too Many Requests
Retry-After: 60
X-Sentry-Rate-Limit-Limit: 50
X-Sentry-Rate-Limit-Remaining: 0
X-Sentry-Rate-Limit-Reset: 1711324800

import * as Sentry from '@sentry/node';

Sentry.init({
  dsn: process.env.SENTRY_DSN,

  // Error sampling: 0.0 (drop all) to 1.0 (capture all)
  sampleRate: 0.25, // Capture 25% of errors

  // Transaction sampling: 0.0 to 1.0
  tracesSampleRate: 0.1, // Capture 10% of transactions

  // Dynamic transaction sampling — route-aware cost control
  tracesSampler: (samplingContext) => {
    const { name, parentSampled } = samplingContext;

    // Respect parent sampling decision in distributed traces
    if (parentSampled !== undefined) return parentSampled;

    // Drop health checks and readiness probes entirely
    if (name === 'GET /health' || name === 'GET /readiness') return 0;
    if (name?.includes('/health')) return 0;

    // High-value: payment and auth flows at 100%
    if (name?.includes('/api/payment') || name?.includes('/api/auth')) return 1.0;

    // Medium-value: API routes at 20%
    if (name?.startsWith('GET /api/') || name?.startsWith('POST /api/')) return 0.2;

    // Low-value: static assets — never trace
    if (name?.startsWith('GET /static/') || name?.startsWith('GET /assets/')) return 0;

    // Default fallback: 5%
    return 0.05;
  },
});

import sentry_sdk

def traces_sampler(sampling_context):
    tx_name = sampling_context.get("transaction_context", {}).get("name", "")

    # Drop health checks
    if "/health" in tx_name or "/readiness" in tx_name:
        return 0

    # High-value flows
    if "/api/payment" in tx_name or "/api/auth" in tx_name:
        return 1.0

    # API routes
    if tx_name.startswith(("GET /api/", "POST /api/")):
        return 0.2

    # Static assets
    if tx_name.startswith(("GET /static/", "GET /assets/")):
        return 0

    return 0.05

sentry_sdk.init(
    dsn=os.environ["SENTRY_DSN"],
    sample_rate=0.25,          # 25% of errors
    traces_sample_rate=0.1,    # 10% of transactions (fallback if no sampler)
    traces_sampler=traces_sampler,
)

Sentry.init({
  dsn: process.env.SENTRY_DSN,

  beforeSend(event, hint) {
    const error = hint?.originalException as Error | undefined;

    // Drop browser extension errors (common in frontend SDKs)
    if (event.exception?.values?.some(e =>
      e.stacktrace?.frames?.some(f =>
        f.filename?.includes('extensions://') ||
        f.filename?.includes('moz-extension://') ||
        f.filename?.includes('chrome-extension://')
      )
    )) {
      return null; // Drop the event
    }

    // Drop known noisy browser errors
    if (error?.message?.match(/ResizeObserver loop/)) return null;
    if (error?.message?.match(/Non-Error promise rejection/)) return null;
    if (error?.name === 'AbortError') return null;
    if (error?.message?.match(/Load failed/)) return null;

    // CRITICAL: Always capture payment errors regardless of sampleRate
    if (error?.message?.includes('PaymentError') ||
        event.tags?.['transaction.type'] === 'payment') {
      return event; // Force capture
    }

    return event;
  },

  // Pattern-based error filtering (faster than beforeSend for known strings)
  ignoreErrors: [
    'ResizeObserver loop completed with undelivered notifications',
    'Non-Error promise rejection captured',
    /Loading chunk \d+ failed/,
    'Network request failed',
    'Failed to fetch',
    'AbortError',
    /^Script error\.?$/,
    'TypeError: cancelled',
    'TypeError: NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource',
  ],

  // Block errors originating from third-party scripts
  denyUrls: [
    /extensions\//i,
    /^chrome:\/\//i,
    /^chrome-extension:\/\//i,
    /^moz-extension:\/\//i,
    /hotjar\.com/,
    /google-analytics\.com/,
    /googletagmanager\.com/,
    /intercom\.io/,
  ],
});

def before_send(event, hint):
    if "exc_info" in hint:
        exc_type, exc_value, _ = hint["exc_info"]

        # Drop known noisy exceptions
        if exc_type.__name__ in ("ConnectionResetError", "BrokenPipeError"):
            return None

        # Drop health check 404s
        msg = str(exc_value)
        if "health" in msg.lower() and "404" in msg:
            return None

    # Always capture payment errors
    if event.get("tags", {}).get("transaction.type") == "payment":
        return event

    return event

sentry_sdk.init(
    dsn=os.environ["SENTRY_DSN"],
    before_send=before_send,
    ignore_errors=[
        "ConnectionResetError",
        "BrokenPipeError",
    ],
)

Filter	What it blocks	Recommended
Legacy browsers	IE 9/10, old Safari, old Android	Enable
Browser extensions	Errors from browser extension code	Enable
Localhost events	Events from localhost / 127.0.0.1	Enable for production projects
Web crawlers	Bot-generated errors (Googlebot, etc.)	Enable
Filtered releases	Specific release versions	Use for deprecated releases
Error message patterns	Custom regex patterns	Add known false-positive patterns

# Enable legacy browser filter
curl -X PUT \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"active": true}' \
  "https://sentry.io/api/0/projects/$SENTRY_ORG/$SENTRY_PROJECT/filters/legacy-browsers/"

# Enable browser extension filter
curl -X PUT \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"active": true}' \
  "https://sentry.io/api/0/projects/$SENTRY_ORG/$SENTRY_PROJECT/filters/browser-extensions/"

# Enable web crawler filter
curl -X PUT \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"active": true}' \
  "https://sentry.io/api/0/projects/$SENTRY_ORG/$SENTRY_PROJECT/filters/web-crawlers/"

# Set rate limit to 1000 events per hour on a specific client key
# First, list client keys to find the key ID
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $SENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN" \
  "https://sentry.io/api/0/projects/$SENTRY_ORG/$SENTRY_PROJECT/keys/" \
  | python3 -m json.tool

# Then set the rate limit
curl -X PUT \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"rateLimit": {"window": 3600, "count": 1000}}' \
  "https://sentry.io/api/0/projects/$SENTRY_ORG/$SENTRY_PROJECT/keys/$KEY_ID/"

# Organization-wide usage stats for the last 7 days, grouped by category
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $SENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN" \
  "https://sentry.io/api/0/organizations/$SENTRY_ORG/stats_v2/?field=sum(quantity)&groupBy=category&interval=1d&statsPeriod=7d" \
  | python3 -m json.tool

# Per-project usage breakdown
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $SENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN" \
  "https://sentry.io/api/0/organizations/$SENTRY_ORG/stats_v2/?field=sum(quantity)&groupBy=project&category=error&interval=1d&statsPeriod=7d" \
  | python3 -m json.tool

# Outcome-based stats (accepted, filtered, rate_limited, invalid)
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $SENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN" \
  "https://sentry.io/api/0/organizations/$SENTRY_ORG/stats_v2/?field=sum(quantity)&groupBy=outcome&category=error&interval=1d&statsPeriod=24h" \
  | python3 -m json.tool

Sentry.init({
  dsn: process.env.SENTRY_DSN,
  maxBreadcrumbs: 30,   // Default: 100
  maxValueLength: 500,   // Default: 250

  beforeSend(event) {
    // Truncate large request bodies
    if (event.request?.data && typeof event.request.data === 'string') {
      event.request.data = event.request.data.substring(0, 1000);
    }
    // Remove cookies
    if (event.request?.cookies) delete event.request.cookies;

    // Custom fingerprinting: normalize dynamic values for better grouping
    if (event.exception?.values?.[0]) {
      const { type, value } = event.exception.values[0];
      const normalized = value
        ?.replace(/\b[0-9a-f]{8}(-[0-9a-f]{4}){3}-[0-9a-f]{12}\b/gi, '<UUID>')
        ?.replace(/\b\d+\b/g, '<N>') || '';
      event.fingerprint = [type || 'unknown', normalized];
    }
    return event;
  },
});

Error	Cause	Solution
`429 Too Many Requests`	Quota exhausted for current billing period	Lower `sampleRate` and `tracesSampleRate`, add patterns to `ignoreErrors`, enable per-key rate limits
Events silently dropped	Client SDK respecting `Retry-After` header	Reduce volume at source; SDK auto-recovers after cooldown expires
Critical errors missed	`sampleRate` too low	Use `beforeSend` to force-return critical errors regardless of sampling; never filter payment/auth errors
Quota exhausted early in period	No per-project rate limits	Set hourly rate limits per client key to spread quota evenly across the billing period
Spike consuming entire quota	Spike protection not enabled or threshold too high	Enable spike protection in organization settings; set up volume alert rules
`401 Unauthorized` on stats API	Invalid or expired auth token	Regenerate token at Settings > Auth Tokens with `org:read` scope
Inbound filter not reducing volume	Filter configured but wrong error type	Verify filter targets correct category; browser extension filter only works for JS SDK errors
`tracesSampler` not called	`tracesSampleRate` takes precedence in some SDK versions	Remove `tracesSampleRate` when using `tracesSampler` — they conflict

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Monitor Sentry quota usage and alert if approaching limit
set -euo pipefail

ORG="${SENTRY_ORG:?Set SENTRY_ORG}"
TOKEN="${SENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN:?Set SENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN}"
THRESHOLD=${QUOTA_THRESHOLD:-80}  # Alert at 80% usage

accepted=$(curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  "https://sentry.io/api/0/organizations/$ORG/stats_v2/?field=sum(quantity)&groupBy=outcome&category=error&statsPeriod=1h&interval=1h" \
  | python3 -c "
import json, sys
data = json.load(sys.stdin)
for g in data.get('groups', []):
    if g['by'].get('outcome') == 'accepted':
        print(g['totals']['sum(quantity)']); break
else: print(0)")

echo "Accepted events (last hour): $accepted"
[ "$accepted" -gt "$THRESHOLD" ] && echo "WARNING: volume $accepted > threshold $THRESHOLD"

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail
BASE="https://sentry.io/api/0/projects/$SENTRY_ORG/$SENTRY_PROJECT/filters"
AUTH="Authorization: Bearer $SENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN"

for filter in legacy-browsers browser-extensions web-crawlers; do
  curl -s -X PUT -H "$AUTH" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{"active": true}' "$BASE/$filter/" && echo "Enabled: $filter"
done