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title: Sentry Alerts and Dashboards
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By the end of this guide you'll be able to create and customize Sentry alerts and dashboards to monitor key metrics, track issue trends, and gain real-time insights in to your application performance. If you get stuck anywhere, try [asking Sentry AI](/?askAI=true) or join our [Discord](https://discord.gg/sentry) community.

## 1. Alerting Strategy

After [integrating with Slack](https://sentry-docs-git-ob-alerts.sentry.dev/organization/integrations/notification-incidents/slack/) and adding your members and teams, it's time to create [Sentry alerts](/product/alerts/best-practices/) to ensure real-time issue detection, enabling faster debugging and reducing downtime. Configuring alerts using specific thresholds or conditions helps prioritize problems, improving system reliability and incident response time.

### Alert Recommendations

- **Error Alert (High-Frequency)** - Triggers when a new or existing production issue suddenly spikes in frequency.

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- **Performance Alert** - Detects and alerts for specific performance metrics when they exceed a specified threshold.

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- **Crash Rate Alert** - Monitors application stability by tracking the percentage of users experiencing crashes within a given time frame.

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- **Anomaly Detection** - Sentry can simplify your alerting needs by automatically detecting anomalies and proactively alerting you.

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You can also create metric alerts for all you custom-instrumented transactions/spans based on key performance indicators such as [throughput](/product/alerts/alert-types/#performance).

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## 2. Sentry Dashboards and Discover

Setting up Sentry dashboards is crucial for speeding up triage and offering a real-time view of critical issues, trends, and performance in your app. If an irregularity is observed, Sentry dashboards allow users to jump directly into troubleshooting with a few clicks.

### Recommended Dashboards

1. **Error Overview Dashboard** - Provides a high-level view of application health, showing you error trends, most frequent issues, and spikes in error occurrences.

2. **Performance Monitoring Dashboard** - Tracks transaction durations, slow API calls, and database query performance to identify bottlenecks.

3. **Mobile Crash Rate and Release Health Dashboard** - Monitors application stability and release impact by tracking crash rates across different versions.

4. **Critical Experience Dashboard** - Tracks errors or performance bottlenecks in your application's critical experiences. [See an example](https://sandbox.sentry.io/dashboard/126679/).

### Congratulations on completing the Sentry onboarding guide!

You now have the foundation to make the most out of Sentry. Here are some highlights on what you've implemented:

- **Track errors** and performance by connecting projects and integrating your tools.

- **Add custom context** and performance instrumentation.

- **Stay on top of critical issues** with alerts.

- **Create dashboards** for insights, and filter or group issues for easy tracking.
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By now, you should have events flowing into your project(s). If you don't, start [here](/product/onboarding/).This guide will cover essential topics such as data enrichment, filtering unwanted events, and issue grouping. If you get stuck anywhere, please [Ask Sentry AI](https://sentry.zendesk.com/hc/en-us?askAI=true) or join our [Discord](https://discord.gg/sentry) community.

## Step 1: Enriching Your Event Data
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3. Add [Environments](/concepts/key-terms/environments/) and [Releases](/platform-redirect/?next=/configuration/releases/) to your Sentry init.

3. Add [Environments](/concepts/key-terms/environments/#creating-environments) and [Releases](/platform-redirect/?next=/configuration/releases/) to Your Sentry init.

- Set up environments (production, staging, etc.) and releases in Sentry to streamline error tracking. Environments filter issues by context, while releasing link errors to code versions for easier debugging.

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## Step 2: Get your team on Sentry by implementing SSO or SCIM - For New organizations



To manage user authentication and provisioning, you can configure Single Sign-On ([SSO](/organization/authentication/sso/)) and System for Cross-Domain Identity Management ([SCIM](/organization/authentication/sso/okta-sso/okta-scim/)).

## Step 3: integrations
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