Self Hosting Sentry.io

WARNING

Postgres is disk space sensitive, ensure adequate disk monitoring is in place with a large buffer.

Hetzner serves as a good host, due to the low cost and high specs of some machines in their server Auction. The machine specs of our deployment in particular are: 14C/20T 2.5GHz i5-13500, 64GB Ram, 2TB Raid

The official Sentry Self Hosted Docs cover setup, recommended specs, and configure fairly well even if the docs are a little bit jumbled at times.

Server Configuration

Installation is pretty simple, first install docker & docker compose on the machine.

sudo apt update -y
sudo apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg
echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
sudo apt update -y
sudo apt install docker-ce docker-compose-plugin
sudo systemctl enable --now docker

Next clone the sentry self hosted repository into the installation path on the machine (we are going to use /opt/sentry)

mkdir -p /opt/sentry
git clone https://github.com/getsentry/self-hosted.git /opt/sentry
cd /opt/sentry
git checkout 24.1.0
# Make any changes to the configuration files under
# /opt/sentry/sentry/config.yml - e.g Google SSO, Slack/Discord Tokens,
# /opt/sentry/sentry/sentry.conf.py - e.g Single Org Mode, Sentry Features, Bitbucket Tokens,
sudo ./install.sh --report-self-hosted-issues
docker compose restart

Next you can look into configuring a cron to backup the sentry server regularly