Data Collected
See what data is collected by the Sentry SDK.
Sentry takes data privacy very seriously and has default settings in place that prioritize data safety, especially when it comes to personally identifiable information (PII) data. When you add the Sentry SDK to your application, you allow it to collect data and send it to Sentry during the runtime and build time of your application.
The category types and amount of data collected vary, depending on the integrations you've enabled in the Sentry SDK. This page lists data categories that the Sentry JavaScript SDK collects.
Many of the categories listed here require you to enable the sendDefaultPii option.
By default, the Sentry SDK sends HTTP response or request headers.
By default, the Sentry SDK doesn't send cookies.
If you want to send cookies, set sendDefaultPii: true in the Sentry.init() call. This will send the cookie headers Cookie and Set-Cookie from fetch and XHR requests.
By default, the Sentry SDK doesn't send any information about the logged-in user, such as email address, user ID, or username.
The type of logged-in user information you'll be able to send depends on the integrations you enable in Sentry's SDK. Most integrations won't send any user information. Some integrations (e.g. User Feedback) make it possible to send data like the user ID, username, and email address.
By default, the Sentry SDK doesn't send the user's IP address.
To enable sending the user's IP address and infer the location, set sendDefaultPii: true. In some integrations such as handleRequest in Astro, you can send the user's IP address by enabling trackClientIp.
If sending the IP address is enabled we will try to infer the IP address or use the IP address provided by ip_address in Sentry.setUser(). If you set ip_address: null, the IP address won't be inferred.
The full request URL of outgoing and incoming HTTP requests is always sent to Sentry. Depending on your application, this could contain PII data. For example, a URL like /users/1234/details, where 1234 is a user id (which may be considered PII).
The full request query string of outgoing and incoming HTTP requests is always sent to Sentry. Depending on your application, this could contain PII data. For example, a query string like ?user_id=1234, where 1234 is a user id (which may be considered PII).
However, Sentry has some default server-side data scrubbing in place to remove sensitive data from the query string. For example, the apiKey and token query parameters are removed by default.
By default, Sentry sends the size of the body content of incoming HTTP requests. This is inferred from the content-length header. Sentry does not send the request body itself on the client-side.
By default, the Sentry SDK doesn't send the body content of responses received from outgoing requests. By default, the SDK will send the response body size based on the content-length header.
By default, SDKs set up by the Sentry CLI Wizard (@sentry/wizard) will enable uploading source maps to Sentry.
To disable source map upload, see the Source Maps documentation.
The Sentry SDK does not send local variables in the error stack trace in client-side JavaScript SDKs.
By default, the Sentry SDK sends information about the device and runtime to Sentry.
In browser environments, this information is obtained by the User Agent string. The User Agent string contains information about the browser, operating system, and device type.
In server-side environments, the Sentry SDK uses the os module to get information about the operating system and architecture.
By default, our Session Replay SDK masks all text content, images, web views, and user input. This helps ensure that no sensitive data is exposed. You can find more details in the Session Replay documentation.
Session Replay also captures basic information about all outgoing fetch and XHR requests in your application. This includes the URL, request and response body size, method, and status code. If networkDetailAllowUrls are defined, the request and response body will be sent to Sentry as well. This can include PII data if the request or response body contains PII information.
Console messages are also captured by default in Session Replay. To scrub console messages, you can use the beforeAddRecordingEvent option to filter console messages before they are sent to Sentry.
By default, the Sentry SDK sends JS console logs to Sentry as breadcrumbs which may contain PII data.
To disable sending console messages, set console: false in your Sentry.breadcrumbsIntegration config, see the Breadcrumbs documentation.
By default, the Sentry SDK sends the referrer URL to Sentry. This is the URL of the page that linked to the current page.
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