Sentry Newsletter: Seer Meets Claude, Metric Alerts Beta, and Self-Healing Software
Published on 18.04.2026
Seer and Claude Managed Agents team up for automated bug fixes
TLDR: Sentry's Seer can now hand off its root cause analysis directly to Claude Managed Agents, which writes the fix and opens a pull request. The idea is that AI coding tools cannot fix what they cannot see, so Sentry feeds Claude the production context it needs.
Claude Managed Agents on Sentry docs
Cursor supports event-based triggers for Sentry
TLDR: Cursor now listens for events from Sentry, which means you can wire user feedback or an incoming issue directly into an agent workflow. Sergiy from Sentry's DevEx team recorded a demo going from user feedback to pull request without touching the terminal.
Cursor event-based triggers for Sentry
Generate Sentry dashboards from a text description
TLDR: Sentry added a beta feature where you describe the dashboard you want in plain English and it builds the charts for you. You need to opt into the beta to try it.
Dashboard generation in Sentry
Metric Alerts hit open beta
TLDR: Sentry's Metric Alerts are now in open beta. If you are already using Metrics to track custom application health signals, you can now attach alerts to them and get paged before users notice.
Uptime Monitors get custom configuration
TLDR: Sentry's Uptime Monitors now support custom configurations, including checking for a range of status codes or verifying that specific response headers are present.
Sentry uses Seer to debug Seer during a regional outage
TLDR: The Sentry team published a blog post about using their own Seer product to investigate a regional outage that affected Seer itself. It is a recursive but practical story about dogfooding AI-driven debugging under real pressure.
Using Seer during a regional outage
Android crash reporting gets better with tombstones
TLDR: Sentry's native Android crash reporting now uses Android tombstones, which are OS-level crash dumps that include richer information than standard crash signals. The blog post explains what tombstones are and how Sentry uses them.
You are probably overdue for a Sentry SDK upgrade
TLDR: Sentry's DevEx team published stats showing how many users are running at least one major version behind on the SDK, and what those users are missing. The short version is most teams should upgrade.
Syntax March Mad CSS tournament recap
TLDR: The Syntax podcast ran a bracket-style tournament called March Mad CSS where 16 developers raced to recreate UIs pixel-perfect under time pressure. The recap video breaks down one of the closest matches to see what the winner did right.