Install Sentry (an open source error logger) on Azure using Docker containers

Start with an Azure VM: Docker on Ubuntu Server (create one on http://portal.azure.com) Create an account at http://hub.docker.com so you can pull containers. Now, when the VM is fully loaded, login with putty or any other ssh client to your Azure vm and type the following commands:

$ docker login
$ docker search redis ### (optional search for redis)
$ docker pull redis
$ docker pull postgres
$ docker pull sentry
$ docker run -d --name sentry-redis redis
$ docker run -d --name sentry-postgres -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=yourpassword -e POSTGRES_USER=sentry postgres
$ docker run -d --name sentry -p 8080:9000 --link sentry-redis:redis --link sentry-postgres:postgres sentry
$ docker run -it --rm --link sentry-postgres:postgres --link sentry-redis:redis sentry sentry upgrade
$ docker run -d --name sentry-celery1 --link sentry-redis:redis --link sentry-postgres:postgres sentry sentry celery worker
$ docker run -d --name sentry-celery-beat --link sentry-redis:redis --link sentry-postgres:postgres sentry sentry celery beat

For me, the initial user didn't have enough rights, so I created an additional user using:

$ docker run -it --rm --link sentry-redis:redis --link sentry-postgres:postgres sentry sentry createsuperuser

To make the web portal accessible, you'll have to open the port Azure, using Settings - Endpoints:

All kudo's for this post go to: https://hub.docker.com/_/sentry/ for the excellent description, I've only created this post to add the additional docker pull / Azure stuff. I don't know if this is how you want to run it on production, but at least you have a very easy test environment.

Now you can compare this with other error loggers like:

• Raygun.io
• Splunk
• Rollbar
• Stackify

What is your experience with error loggers and monitoring tools and which one would you recommend?

Cheers,

Luuk