Sentry, a developer of application monitoring tools, today announced the launch of agentless monitoring for Python and Javascript with only five lines of code.

Sentry’s tools focus on developers and code to provide tools to allow DevOps teams to identify and fix performance issues more quickly through application programming interfaces and code telemetry from clients.

For app development and deployment, performance bottlenecks and code errors can cost a lot of time in money. A recent study from the Digital Enterprise Journal revealed that 91% of companies reported missed revenue because of performance and availability problems, leading to consumers abandoning carts, tasks in apps and attention.

An estimated $634,000 has been lost to customers abandoning apps from slow interfaces and other crippling bugs that made it into production. According to the study, companies spend about $4.6 million on incident management annually thanks to the frequency of errors and the accompanying issues.

“As more organizations go digital, it is important to know how your code is doing in production and not just if your systems are operational. Developers need a more direct line to the customer experience and related issues,” said Milin Desai, chief executive at Sentry.

With Sentry Performance, developers and DevOps teams can get application health insights for monitoring purposes, which allows better understanding of customer satisfaction based on app response time to user interactions with live updates on latency and throughput on data. Transactions with users can be sorted by slowest duration time, related issues and the number of users having a slow experience in one view.

Additionally, the tool provides a root cause analysis that uses visualization to help reveal the characteristics between outliers and normal performance. Sentry’s interface provides a drill-down capability with user-friendly visuals to assist with understanding the problem.

Distributed tracing and performance alerts add to the tools with the ability to track issues end-to-end to determine the exact database query that caused an error or performance issue and alert about performance problems when latency reaches particular thresholds.

Sentry uses a tracing waterfall technique to drill down into transaction details and help highlight API call times in relation to expected operations and device data, this allows DevOps teams to rapidly identify which API calls need optimization and head-off customer aggravation.

“Sentry is the only platform that enables software teams to easily trace issues related to errors in code, identify performance problems, and surface trends in code quality, all while integrating seamlessly into your development tool stack,” said Desai. “This reduces time to resolution from days to minutes, frees up developer cycles, and ensures satisfied, returning customers.”

Sentry’s client base currently extends to more than 1 million developers and 60,000 organizations worldwide.

This new agentless front-end tool from Sentry is now generally available and can be accessed from the company’s website.

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