Setup Sentry via Docker on Ubuntu 16.04

Introduction

Sentry is an open source solution for error tracking. Sentry tracks exceptions and other useful messages from applications that would traditionally be written to log files, and instead utilizes a user-friendly interface.

Prerequisites

• A newly deployed Vultr instance running Ubuntu 16.04.

• A sudo user.

• Docker CE installed.

Installation

Update the package index list:

sudo apt-get update

Install the development tools package:

sudo apt-get install build-essential -y

Clone getsentry/onpremise from source:

git clone https://github.com/getsentry/onpremise

Enter the onpremise folder and build a local custom image:

cd ~/onpremise

sudo make build

Create a script called sentry_services.sh:

sudo nano sentry_services.sh

Add the following terminal commands to the sentry_services.sh script file:

#! /bin/bash

clear

sudo docker run \

 --detach \

 --name sentry-redis \

 redis:3.2-alpine

sudo docker run \

 --detach \

 --name sentry-postgres \

 --env POSTGRES_PASSWORD=secret \

 --env POSTGRES_USER=sentry \

postgres:9.5

sudo docker run \

  --detach \

  --name sentry-smtp \

  tianon/exim4

sudo docker run \

  --rm sentry-onpremise \

  --help

sudo docker run \

  --rm sentry-onpremise \

  config generate-secret-key

Save and exit, then execute the script:

. sentry_services.sh

The output of the executed script will generate a key which we will have to save in an environment variable called: SENTRY_SECRET_KEY. We also have to store this in the ~/.bashrc file, so that if our SSH session expires and we must login again, our SENTRY_SECRET_KEY variable always gets the same value:

echo 'export SENTRY_SECRET_KEY="_secret_key_here_"' >> ~/.bashrc

source ~/.bashrc

echo $SENTRY_SECRET_KEY

Run migrations:

sudo docker run \

  --link sentry-redis:redis \

  --link sentry-postgres:postgres \

  --link sentry-smtp:smtp \

  --env SENTRY_SECRET_KEY=${SENTRY_SECRET_KEY} \

  --rm -it sentry-onpremise upgrade

Once the migration is completed, start the Sentry app as a web-service:

sudo docker run \

  --detach \

  --name sentry-web-01 \

  --publish 9000:9000 \

  --link sentry-redis:redis \

  --link sentry-postgres:postgres \

  --link sentry-smtp:smtp \

  --env SENTRY_SECRET_KEY=${SENTRY_SECRET_KEY} \

  sentry-onpremise \

  run web

Start the background workers:

sudo docker run \

  --detach \

  --name sentry-worker-01 \

  --link sentry-redis:redis \

  --link sentry-postgres:postgres \

  --link sentry-smtp:smtp \

  --env SENTRY_SECRET_KEY=${SENTRY_SECRET_KEY} \

  sentry-onpremise \

  run worker

Start the cron process:

sudo docker run \

  --detach \

  --name sentry-cron \

  --link sentry-redis:redis \

  --link sentry-postgres:postgres \

  --link sentry-smtp:smtp \

  --env SENTRY_SECRET_KEY=${SENTRY_SECRET_KEY} \

  sentry-onpremise \

  run cron

Sentry is now configured and listens on port 9000 locally. Visit http://you_server_ip:9000.