Sentry-react-native: Performance monitoring via APM

[lukebars]

Hey, I've just read the new Sentry blog post about performance monitoring and I was thinking if APM is in future roadmap of RNSentry? Would be a cool feature to have.

[jennmueng]

@lukebars It is, going to start work on it very soon!

[Fr4gger]

I am just starting with Sentry and just wanted to ask: is performance monitoring ready for React Native? And also, will this work with sentry-expo package installation?

[jennmueng]

Not yet, we're looking maybe early-mid September, and yes it should work with expo just fine.

[Fr4gger]

Not yet, we're looking maybe early-mid September, and yes it should work with expo just fine.

Excellent, thanks a lot.

[artshik]

@jennmueng - I believe we activated the Performance trial without realizing that it wasn't yet ready for React Native. Would we be able to get an extension on the trial when React Native support gets released, so we can set it up, make sure it fits our needs, and then upgrade if necessary? Or let me know who else I can reach out to about this. Thanks!

[jennmueng]

@artshik Yes it should be no issue, you can handle this with our support. One way to do this is you can email [email protected]

[RosieWatson]

@jennmueng any update on how the performance monitoring is looking for RN? Wondering if there are any updates on the timeline as looking to use it for my app

[artshik]

Thanks @jennmueng, I've reached out to [email protected] on the email they sent about the trial ending soon.

[Fr4gger]

Hey @jennmueng any news regarding the implementation of APM for React Native? Looking forward to implementing this to some projects.

[paeder]

@jennmueng Any updates on APM for react native? Any new eta for availability?

[jennmueng]

@Fr4gger @paeder, we're going to have a major release bump soon, it overhauls a couple of things that we needed for performance. It'll be coming right after the major release is done, and is top priority for the React Native SDK.

[Fr4gger]

@Fr4gger @paeder, we're going to have a major release bump soon, it overhauls a couple of things that we needed for performance. It'll be coming right after the major release is done, and is top priority for the React Native SDK.

Thanks a lot @jennmueng for the update. Looking forward to it!

[hvlong]

Great, I'm also waiting for this feature too.

[Fr4gger]

Hey @jennmueng, sorry for the insistence but, are there any updates regarding the implementation of APM for React Native?

[jennmueng]

@Fr4gger We have a PR that will open React Native up to manual instrumentation with examples in the sample app coming up:
https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-react-native/pull/1167
https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-react-native/pull/1168

[jennmueng]

Manual tracing instrumentation is out in 2.1.0. You can now call Sentry.startTransaction in React Native.

You can use the guide we have for JS here: https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/javascript/performance/

You will need to define either tracesSampleRate or tracesSampler but don't use BrowserTracing just yet, we will be implementing auto performance tracing for React Native separately.

[jennmueng]

Good news, we've gotten auto performance tracing working! You can keep up through this PR: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-react-native/pull/1230