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I gave up on self-hosted Sentry (2024)

Discover why I gave up on self-hosting Sentry before even starting. The high hardware needs, tricky setup, and heavy maintenance made it not worth the trouble.

At the time, I was making software for law firms, so sending error reports to a third-party service was out of the question, I needed to host it myself. Our internal system that powers our newest features will also advance and require more containers, including one for a new database. I’d like to think so… this small journey got me mad enough to just write a drop-in replacement for Sentry that can run on any cheap hardware you can find.

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