Not every problem throws an error. Sometimes checkout just gets slow in one region and…
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Not every problem throws an error. Sometimes checkout just gets slow in one region and nothing crashes, so nothing gets logged 😞 In this video, @nikolovlazar walks through Sentry's Application Metrics in about 90 seconds: tracking counters, gauges, and distributions, catching a regional checkout slowdown in Metrics Explorer, following it to the exact slow API call with traces, and then turning the metric into a dashboard widget or alert so you know if it happens again 👇
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