INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Created to help app developers find and fix bugs more efficiently, Sentry announced today that it has raised a $16 million Series B led by
returning investors NEA and Accel
Both firms participated in Sentry Series A round two years ago.
Co-founder and CEO David Cramer tells TechCrunch that the new round puts
Sentry post-money valuation at around $100 million
The company recently launched Sentry 9, which, like its other software, is open source
Sentry 9 lets app developers integrate error remediation into their workflows by automatically notifying the developers responsible for that
part of the code, letting them filter by environment to hone in on the issue, and manage collaboration among different teams
This reduces the amount of time it takes to fix bugs from &five hours to five minutes,& Sentry claims.
The company will &double down on
developers and their adjacent roles,& in particular product teams, Cramer says
Next in the pipeline is tools that will answer more in-depth questions related to app performance management.
&Today we answer ‘this
specific thing is broken, why& Next we&ll expand that into deeper insights whether it ‘these sets of things are broken for the same
reason& as well as exploring non-errors
For example, if you deploy an update to your product and traffic to your sign-up form goes to zero that pretty serious, even if you&re not
generating errors,& Cramer says.
Sentry technology originated as an internal tool for exception logging in Djana applications while its
founders, Chris Jennings and Cramer, were working at Disqus
After they open-sourced it, the software quickly expanded into more programming languages
Sentry launched a hosted service in 2012 to answer demand.It now claims to have 9,000 paying customers (including Airbnb, Dropbox, PayPal,
Twitter and Uber), be used by 500,000 engineers and process more than 360 billion errors a year.
In a press statement, Accel partner Dan
Levine said &Sentry growth is a testament to the now-universal truth that app users everywhere expect a flawless experience free of bugs and
Poor user experience kills companies
In order to keep moving forward as quickly as possible, product teams need to know that customers will never leave because of a broken app
update.Sentrylets every developer build software that is functionally error-free.&
