the.com/sentry
The one app crash report that arrives after you've already gone to bed.
means A soldier or guard posted to watch over a place and sound the alarm if trouble approaches.
from From 'sentinel,' which traces back to Italian 'sentinella' and ultimately the Latin 'sentire,' meaning 'to perceive or feel.' A sentry's whole job is written into that root — to sense danger before anyone else does. 'Sentry' emerged in English in the 1600s as a clipped, practical shorthand for the older, fancier 'sentinel' — fitting for a job that's mostly standing still and staying alert, not standing on ceremony.
- origin
- Started as an IRC bot at Disqus in 2008
- job
- Catches errors so users don't have to report them
- irony
- Monitoring software that occasionally goes down itself
- scale
- Tracks crashes across millions of apps worldwide