Sentry, a developer of application monitoring tools, announced Tuesday it has expanded its code observability tools to include the Next.js framework for error and performance monitoring.

That means web application developers can capture errors, measure performance, configure commits and keep up with their code better than before without needing to add extra software development kits or more configuration to do so.

Next.js is a React framework for building web applications that provides search engine optimization, focuses on web app performance, uses server-side-rendering and creates an easy-to-use developer experience.

According to Sentry, the reason Next.js was picked is that it’s one of the fastest-growing React frameworks. It is also used on a number of large websites, including Netflix Inc., GitHub Inc., Uber Technologies Inc. and Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc.

Vercel Inc., the front-end application development platform that created the Next.js framework, recently raised $102 million in Series C funding. Earlier this June, Vercel also launched a major update to Next.js that added real-time feedback, image optimization and faster startup.

The benefits of Next.js have attracted continuing adoption for the React framework, including cloud computing firm HashiCorp Inc., a customer of Sentry.

“We manage several large customer-facing properties, and Next.js gives us the flexibility to easily build static and dynamic pages without spinning up servers or sacrificing the end-user experience,” said Michael Wickett, group manager of web development at HashiCorp. “With Next.js, we can see our changes locally in hundreds of milliseconds and have reduced build times for our larger projects from 35 minutes to seven.”

With Sentry’s tools able to provide observability into Next.js, developers, engineers and DevOps teams can respond more quickly to errors or performance issues affecting their end-users in a timely manner. It also does so with fewer lines of code and less complex configuration.

“Sentry has changed how we monitor and respond to errors at Vercel by increasing code visibility and reducing resolution times,” said Lee Robinson, head of developer relations at Vercel.

Sentry provides a broad variety of code observability and application monitoring tools across a number of languages and frameworks. Examples include Android, React Native, JavaScript, .NET, Go, Python, Java, PHP, Ruby, iOS and now Next.js.

“We are the connective tissue for all developers,” said David Cramer, Sentry’s co-founder and chief technology officer. “Sentry sees the issues that really matter across frontend, backend, and mobile applications and makes it easier for teams to solve the most important issues.”

Sentry has posted more information on the Next.js app monitoring SDK in a blog post for developers with technical details.

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