FastAPI

Learn about using Sentry with FastAPI.

The FastAPI integration adds support for the FastAPI Framework.

Install sentry-sdk from PyPI with the fastapi extra:

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pip install --upgrade 'sentry-sdk[fastapi]'

If you have the fastapi package in your dependencies, the FastAPI integration will be enabled automatically when you initialize the Sentry SDK.

Configuration should happen as early as possible in your application's lifecycle.

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import sentry_sdk

sentry_sdk.init(
    dsn="https://examplePublicKey@o0.ingest.sentry.io/0",
    # Set traces_sample_rate to 1.0 to capture 100%
    # of transactions for tracing.
    traces_sample_rate=1.0,
    # Set profiles_sample_rate to 1.0 to profile 100%
    # of sampled transactions.
    # We recommend adjusting this value in production.
    profiles_sample_rate=1.0,
)

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from fastapi import FastAPI

sentry_sdk.init(...)  # same as above

app = FastAPI()

@app.get("/sentry-debug")
async def trigger_error():
    division_by_zero = 1 / 0

When you point your browser to http://localhost:8000/sentry-debug a transaction will be created in the Performance section of sentry.io. Additionally, an error event will be sent to sentry.io and will be connected to the transaction.

It takes a couple of moments for the data to appear in sentry.io.

The following information about your FastAPI project will be available to you on Sentry.io:

  • By default, all exceptions leading to an Internal Server Error are captured and reported. The HTTP status codes to report on are configurable via the failed_request_status_codes option.
  • Request data such as URL, HTTP method, headers, form data, and JSON payloads is attached to all issues.
  • Sentry excludes raw bodies and multipart file uploads.
  • Sentry also excludes personally identifiable information (such as user ids, usernames, cookies, authorization headers, IP addresses) unless you set send_default_pii to True.

Issues List

The following parts of your FastAPI project are monitored:

  • Middleware stack
  • Middleware send and receive callbacks
  • Database queries
  • Redis commands

Performance details are shown as waterfall diagram

The parameter enable_tracing needs to be set when initializing the Sentry SDK for performance measurements to be recorded.

By adding FastApiIntegration to your sentry_sdk.init() call explicitly, you can set options for FastApiIntegration to change its behavior. Because FastAPI is based on the Starlette framework, both integrations, StarletteIntegration and FastApiIntegration, must be instantiated.

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from sentry_sdk.integrations.starlette import StarletteIntegration
from sentry_sdk.integrations.fastapi import FastApiIntegration

sentry_sdk.init(
    # same as above
    integrations=[
        StarletteIntegration(
            transaction_style="endpoint",
            failed_request_status_codes=[403, range(500, 599)],
        ),
        FastApiIntegration(
            transaction_style="endpoint",
            failed_request_status_codes=[403, range(500, 599)],
        ),
    ]
)

You can pass the following keyword arguments to StarletteIntegration() and FastApiIntegration():

  • transaction_style:

    This option lets you influence how the transactions are named in Sentry. For example:

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    import sentry_sdk
    from sentry_sdk.integrations.starlette import StarletteIntegration
    from sentry_sdk.integrations.fastapi import FastApiIntegration
    
    sentry_sdk.init(
        # ...
        integrations=[
            StarletteIntegration(
                transaction_style="endpoint"
            ),
            FastApiIntegration(
                transaction_style="endpoint"
            ),
        ],
    )
    
    app = FastAPI()
    
    @app.get("/catalog/product/{product_id}")
    async def product_detail(product_id):
        return {...}
    

    In the above code, the transaction name will be:

    • "/catalog/product/{product_id}" if you set transaction_style="url"
    • "product_detail" if you set transaction_style="endpoint"

    The default is "url".

  • failed_request_status_codes:

    A list of integers or containers (objects that allow membership checks via in) of integers that will determine which status codes should be reported to Sentry.

    Examples of valid failed_request_status_codes:

    • [500] will only send events on HTTP 500.
    • [400, range(500, 599)] will send events on HTTP 400 as well as the 500-599 range.
    • [500, 503] will send events on HTTP 500 and 503.

    The default is [range(500, 599)].

  • FastAPI: 0.79.0+
  • Python: 3.7+
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