Spotlight

Sentry Spotlight is a local development tool that provides real-time observability for errors, traces, logs, and performance data during development. It allows you to see Sentry events in real-time without sending them to Sentry's servers, making it ideal for local debugging.

The sentry-spotlight module provides a SpotlightIntegration that sends a copy of all Sentry events to your local Spotlight instance.

Install

To install use:

implementation 'io.sentry:sentry-spotlight:8.34.0'

For other dependency managers, check out the central Maven repository.

Configure

sentry.enable-spotlight=true
# Optional: override the default Spotlight URL (defaults to http://localhost:8969/stream)
sentry.spotlight-connection-url=http://localhost:8969/stream

import io.sentry.Sentry;

Sentry.init(options -> {
    options.setDsn("___PUBLIC_DSN___");
    options.setEnableSpotlight(true);
    // Optional: override the default Spotlight URL (defaults to http://localhost:8969/stream)
    options.setSpotlightConnectionUrl("http://localhost:8969/stream");
});

Verify

To verify the integration is working, capture a test exception and check the Spotlight UI:

import io.sentry.Sentry;

Sentry.captureException(new Exception("Spotlight test from Java!"));

Open the Spotlight UI and confirm that the error event appears.