Capturing Transactions

Spring MVC Integration

Sentry Spring Boot integration, once enabled, captures each incoming Spring MVC HTTP request and turns it into a transaction with SentryTracingFilter. Transaction names follow pattern <HTTP method> <Spring MVC route>, for example for a request to a following controller:

@RestController
class HelloController {

    @GetMapping("/person/{id}")
    Person person(@PathVariable Long id) {
        ...
    }
}

Each sampled request executed by this controller method will be turned into a transaction GET /person/{id}.

RestTemplate Instrumentation

Sentry Spring Boot integration provides SentrySpanRestTemplateCustomizer that creates a span for each outgoing HTTP request executed with a RestTemplate. To use instrumented RestTemplate make sure to create RestTemplate beans using RestTemplateBuilder:

@Configuration
class AppConfig {
    @Bean
    RestTemplate restTemplate(RestTemplateBuilder builder) {
        return builder.build();
    }
}

Capturing Bean Method Execution

Capturing Transaction

Every Spring bean method execution can be turned into a transaction or a span. To enable this feature, you must include spring-boot-starter-aop in your application:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-aop</artifactId>
</dependency>

Methods executed outside of Spring MVC request processing can be turned into transactions by annotating them with @SentryTransaction annotation:

@Component
class ScheduledJob {

    @Scheduled(...)
    @SentryTransaction
    void execute() {
        ...
    }
}

@SentryTransaction can be configured with custom name and op properties. If not defined, name will be resolved from the class, and the method name.

Advanced Spring AOP users can redefine transaction pointcut by providing a custom org.springframework.aop.Pointcut bean with name sentryTransactionPointcut.

Capturing Span

To create a span around a method execution, annotate method with @SentrySpan annotation:

@Component
class PersonService {

    @SentrySpan
    Person findById(Long id) {
        ...
    }
}

@SentrySpan can be configured with custom description and op properties. If not defined, description will be resolved from the class, and the method name.

Advanced Spring AOP users can redefine span pointcut by providing a custom org.springframework.aop.Pointcut bean with name sentrySpanPointcut.