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Does Sentry do logging now with the new Tracing feature? #5468

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The resulting trace is a log of events which occurred during a program's execution, often across multiple systems

The log of events here is not as granular as system level logging - and the focus here is on the timing data of those items (duration), to see potential performance problems. To get an idea of what I mean, take a look at the performance view on our sandbox: https://sentry.io/demo/sandbox/

You'll see that tracing data looks something like so:

Sentry is not meant to replace your logging tool, but instead augment it.

I guess my question is - can I use Sentry.captureMessage in my Nodejs server and then see all the log entries somewhere in the Sentry UI?

You can do this if you…

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