Sentry
Email to Sentry,
the easy way
ForwardThis is the simple tool that connects your email to Sentry. Forward any email along with some simple instructions, and it’s handled. Nothing to download, nothing to set up. Works with dozens of your other apps too.
Setup in 30 seconds.
How it works
Connect Sentry
Create a free account and connect Sentry. It takes about 30 seconds, and you only do it once.
Forward an email
Forward any email to your ForwardThis address along with your instructions. One email can ask for several things at once.
Done.
ForwardThis replies when it's done, with a short summary and links to what it made - and an undo button if something doesn't look right.
Just forward it
to do@forwardthis.io
Fwd: Checkout is throwing an error on iPhone
Find the checkout TypeError in harbourside-web, give it to Ben, and comment that it's the Safari payment sheet.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Two customers this morning got an error page at the payment step on their phones. Everything else on the site looks fine.
Assigned HARBOURSIDE-WEB-4F to Ben Alderton
TypeError: undefined is not an object · 214 events, 61 users
Commented on HARBOURSIDE-WEB-4F
Safari payment sheet, two customers reported it this morning
Undo available for 24 hours if something does not look right.
Some other examples
- “What's still unresolved in harbourside-web?”
- “Resolve the Stripe webhook timeout and note that the retry fixed it.”
- “Ignore that noisy 404 issue on the marketing project.”
Everything ForwardThis can do in Sentry
Look up tasks
Find issues
Read a record
Read an issue
Update task
Resolve, ignore or assign an issue
Add note
Comment on an issue
Find pages
List projects
Try it with a real email.
Forward any work email to the address below and see what ForwardThis can do. No signup required.
Occasional product emails may follow.
Why you need ForwardThis
Email is messy, every message asking for something different. It means constantly leaving your inbox and juggling tabs. ForwardThis skips all of that: forward an email along with some simple instructions, and it’s handled. Compatible with every email provider, and it works across the apps you’re already using.
Questions
- How do I send an email to Sentry?
- Forward the alert, or the customer email that describes the bug, to your ForwardThis address with a line saying what to do, like "resolve the checkout TypeError in harbourside-web and note that the fix is out". It finds the issue, does it, and replies with a link. The first time, you'll need a free account with Sentry connected, which takes about 30 seconds - that's the entire Sentry email integration.
- Can it resolve or ignore an issue from an email?
- Yes. Say resolve, unresolve or ignore and name the issue, either by its short id like HARBOURSIDE-WEB-4F or in words from its title. It comes back with what the issue was, how many events it had and how many people it hit, so you can see what you just closed.
- Can it assign an issue to someone on the team?
- Yes. Name the person by their email address and it hands the issue to them, in the same line as anything else you want done, so "give it to ben@harbourside.co.uk and comment that it's Safari only" is one email.
- How does it know which Sentry project I mean?
- You name it, and if you can't remember what a project is called it will list the projects the connection can see. The organisation comes from your own Sentry account rather than from anything written in the forwarded alert, because an alert is just text somebody sent you and it should never get to pick which account gets changed.
- What if it resolves the wrong issue?
- The confirmation includes an undo that works for 24 hours, which puts the status or the assignee back exactly as it was, and comments it left are deleted. If the issue has been moved again by somebody else since, it stops and tells you instead of trampling the change.