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restructure Go docs
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feat(go): refactor initial guide pages
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fix dsn
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misc fixes
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refactor segments for consistency
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remove unneeded segment on logrus
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follow base structure on logs
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create platform includes snippet for logs config
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refactor logs pages to follow format
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Update docs/platforms/go/common/configuration/options.mdx
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231 changes: 112 additions & 119 deletions docs/platforms/go/common/configuration/options.mdx
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Expand Up @@ -9,117 +9,119 @@ description: "Learn more about how the SDK can be configured via options. These
```go
// ClientOptions that configures a SDK Client
type ClientOptions struct {
// The DSN to use. If the DSN is not set, the client is effectively
// disabled.
Dsn string
// In debug mode, the debug information is printed to stdout to help you
// understand what Sentry is doing.
Debug bool
// Configures whether SDK should generate and attach stack traces to pure
// capture message calls.
AttachStacktrace bool
// The sample rate for event submission in the range [0.0, 1.0]. By default,
// all events are sent. Thus, as a historical special case, the sample rate
// 0.0 is treated as if it was 1.0. To drop all events, set the DSN to the
// The DSN to use. If the DSN is not set, the client is effectively
// disabled.
Dsn string
// In debug mode, the debug information is printed to stdout to help you
// understand what Sentry is doing.
Debug bool
// Configures whether SDK should generate and attach stack traces to pure
// capture message calls.
AttachStacktrace bool
// The sample rate for event submission in the range [0.0, 1.0]. By default,
// all events are sent. Thus, as a historical special case, the sample rate
// 0.0 is treated as if it was 1.0. To drop all events, set the DSN to the
// empty string.
SampleRate float64
// Enable performance tracing.
EnableTracing bool
// The sample rate for sampling traces in the range [0.0, 1.0].
TracesSampleRate float64
// Used to customize the sampling of traces, overrides TracesSampleRate.
TracesSampler TracesSampler
// The sample rate for profiling traces in the range [0.0, 1.0].
// This is relative to TracesSampleRate - it is a ratio of profiled traces out of all sampled traces.
ProfilesSampleRate float64
// List of regexp strings that will be used to match against event's message
// and if applicable, caught errors type and value.
// If the match is found, then a whole event will be dropped.
IgnoreErrors []string
// List of regexp strings that will be used to match against a transaction's
// name. If a match is found, then the transaction will be dropped.
IgnoreTransactions []string
// If this flag is enabled, certain personally identifiable information (PII) is added by active integrations.
// By default, no such data is sent.
SendDefaultPII bool
// BeforeSend is called before error events are sent to Sentry.
// Use it to mutate the event or return nil to discard the event.
BeforeSend func(event *Event, hint *EventHint) *Event
// BeforeSendTransaction is called before transaction events are sent to Sentry.
// Use it to mutate the transaction or return nil to discard the transaction.
BeforeSendTransaction func(event *Event, hint *EventHint) *Event
// Before breadcrumb add callback.
BeforeBreadcrumb func(breadcrumb *Breadcrumb, hint *BreadcrumbHint) *Breadcrumb
// Integrations to be installed on the current Client, receives default
// integrations.
Integrations func([]Integration) []Integration
// io.Writer implementation that should be used with the Debug mode.
DebugWriter io.Writer
// The transport to use. Defaults to HTTPTransport.
Transport Transport
// The server name to be reported.
ServerName string
// The release to be sent with events.
//
// Some Sentry features are built around releases, and, thus, reporting
// events with a non-empty release improves the product experience. See
// https://docs.sentry.io/product/releases/.
//
// If Release is not set, the SDK will try to derive a default value
// from environment variables or the Git repository in the working
// directory.
//
// If you distribute a compiled binary, it is recommended to set the
// Release value explicitly at build time. As an example, you can use:
//
// go build -ldflags='-X main.release=VALUE'
//
// That will set the value of a predeclared variable 'release' in the
// 'main' package to 'VALUE'. Then, use that variable when initializing
// the SDK:
//
// sentry.Init(ClientOptions{Release: release})
//
// See https://golang.org/cmd/go/ and https://golang.org/cmd/link/ for
// the official documentation of -ldflags and -X, respectively.
Release string
// The dist to be sent with events.
Dist string
// The environment to be sent with events.
Environment string
// Maximum number of breadcrumbs
// when MaxBreadcrumbs is negative then ignore breadcrumbs.
MaxBreadcrumbs int
// Maximum number of spans.
//
// See https://develop.sentry.dev/sdk/data-model/envelopes/#size-limits for size limits
// applied during event ingestion. Events that exceed these limits might get dropped.
MaxSpans int
// An optional pointer to http.Client that will be used with a default
// HTTPTransport. Using your own client will make HTTPTransport, HTTPProxy,
// HTTPSProxy and CaCerts options ignored.
HTTPClient *http.Client
// An optional pointer to http.Transport that will be used with a default
// HTTPTransport. Using your own transport will make HTTPProxy, HTTPSProxy
// and CaCerts options ignored.
HTTPTransport http.RoundTripper
// An optional HTTP proxy to use.
// This will default to the HTTP_PROXY environment variable.
HTTPProxy string
// An optional HTTPS proxy to use.
// This will default to the HTTPS_PROXY environment variable.
// HTTPS_PROXY takes precedence over HTTP_PROXY for https requests.
HTTPSProxy string
// An optional set of SSL certificates to use.
CaCerts *x509.CertPool
// MaxErrorDepth is the maximum number of errors reported in a chain of errors.
// This protects the SDK from an arbitrarily long chain of wrapped errors.
//
// An additional consideration is that arguably reporting a long chain of errors
// is of little use when debugging production errors with Sentry. The Sentry UI
// is not optimized for long chains either. The top-level error together with a
// stack trace is often the most useful information.
MaxErrorDepth int
SampleRate float64
// Enable structured logging.
EnableLogs bool
// Enable performance tracing.
EnableTracing bool
// The sample rate for sampling traces in the range [0.0, 1.0].
TracesSampleRate float64
// Used to customize the sampling of traces, overrides TracesSampleRate.
TracesSampler TracesSampler
// The sample rate for profiling traces in the range [0.0, 1.0].
// This is relative to TracesSampleRate - it is a ratio of profiled traces out of all sampled traces.
ProfilesSampleRate float64
// List of regexp strings that will be used to match against event's message
// and if applicable, caught errors type and value.
// If the match is found, then a whole event will be dropped.
IgnoreErrors []string
// List of regexp strings that will be used to match against a transaction's
// name. If a match is found, then the transaction will be dropped.
IgnoreTransactions []string
// If this flag is enabled, certain personally identifiable information (PII) is added by active integrations.
// By default, no such data is sent.
SendDefaultPII bool
// BeforeSend is called before error events are sent to Sentry.
// Use it to mutate the event or return nil to discard the event.
BeforeSend func(event *Event, hint *EventHint) *Event
// BeforeSendTransaction is called before transaction events are sent to Sentry.
// Use it to mutate the transaction or return nil to discard the transaction.
BeforeSendTransaction func(event *Event, hint *EventHint) *Event
// Before breadcrumb add callback.
BeforeBreadcrumb func(breadcrumb *Breadcrumb, hint *BreadcrumbHint) *Breadcrumb
// Integrations to be installed on the current Client, receives default
// integrations.
Integrations func([]Integration) []Integration
// io.Writer implementation that should be used with the Debug mode.
DebugWriter io.Writer
// The transport to use. Defaults to HTTPTransport.
Transport Transport
// The server name to be reported.
ServerName string
// The release to be sent with events.
//
// Some Sentry features are built around releases, and, thus, reporting
// events with a non-empty release improves the product experience. See
// https://docs.sentry.io/product/releases/.
//
// If Release is not set, the SDK will try to derive a default value
// from environment variables or the Git repository in the working
// directory.
//
// If you distribute a compiled binary, it is recommended to set the
// Release value explicitly at build time. As an example, you can use:
//
// go build -ldflags='-X main.release=VALUE'
//
// That will set the value of a predeclared variable 'release' in the
// 'main' package to 'VALUE'. Then, use that variable when initializing
// the SDK:
//
// sentry.Init(ClientOptions{Release: release})
//
// See https://golang.org/cmd/go/ and https://golang.org/cmd/link/ for
// the official documentation of -ldflags and -X, respectively.
Release string
// The dist to be sent with events.
Dist string
// The environment to be sent with events.
Environment string
// Maximum number of breadcrumbs
// when MaxBreadcrumbs is negative then ignore breadcrumbs.
MaxBreadcrumbs int
// Maximum number of spans.
//
// See https://develop.sentry.dev/sdk/data-model/envelopes/#size-limits for size limits
// applied during event ingestion. Events that exceed these limits might get dropped.
MaxSpans int
// An optional pointer to http.Client that will be used with a default
// HTTPTransport. Using your own client will make HTTPTransport, HTTPProxy,
// HTTPSProxy and CaCerts options ignored.
HTTPClient *http.Client
// An optional pointer to http.Transport that will be used with a default
// HTTPTransport. Using your own transport will make HTTPProxy, HTTPSProxy
// and CaCerts options ignored.
HTTPTransport http.RoundTripper
// An optional HTTP proxy to use.
// This will default to the HTTP_PROXY environment variable.
HTTPProxy string
// An optional HTTPS proxy to use.
// This will default to the HTTPS_PROXY environment variable.
// HTTPS_PROXY takes precedence over HTTP_PROXY for https requests.
HTTPSProxy string
// An optional set of SSL certificates to use.
CaCerts *x509.CertPool
// MaxErrorDepth is the maximum number of errors reported in a chain of errors.
// This protects the SDK from an arbitrarily long chain of wrapped errors.
//
// An additional consideration is that arguably reporting a long chain of errors
// is of little use when debugging production errors with Sentry. The Sentry UI
// is not optimized for long chains either. The top-level error together with a
// stack trace is often the most useful information.
MaxErrorDepth int
}
```

Expand All @@ -129,15 +131,6 @@ By default, TLS uses the host's root CA set. If you don't have `ca-certificates`


```go
package main

import (
"log"

"github.com/certifi/gocertifi"
"github.com/getsentry/sentry-go"
)

sentryClientOptions := sentry.ClientOptions{
Dsn: "___PUBLIC_DSN___",
}
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Expand Up @@ -14,23 +14,13 @@ To configure transport, provide an instance of `sentry.Transport` interface to `


```go
package main
sentrySyncTransport := sentry.NewHTTPSyncTransport()
sentrySyncTransport.Timeout = time.Second * 3

import (
"time"

"github.com/getsentry/sentry-go"
)

func main() {
sentrySyncTransport := sentry.NewHTTPSyncTransport()
sentrySyncTransport.Timeout = time.Second * 3

sentry.Init(sentry.ClientOptions{
Dsn: "___PUBLIC_DSN___",
Transport: sentrySyncTransport,
})
}
sentry.Init(sentry.ClientOptions{
Dsn: "___PUBLIC_DSN___",
Transport: sentrySyncTransport,
})
```

Each transport, provide it's own factory function. `NewHTTPTransport` and `NewHTTPSyncTransport` respectively.
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Expand Up @@ -10,20 +10,6 @@ Check out the other SDKs we support in the left-hand dropdown.

* If you don't have an account and Sentry project established already, please head over to [Sentry](https://sentry.io/signup/), and then return to this page.

## Features

In addition to capturing errors, you can monitor interactions between multiple services or applications by [enabling tracing](/concepts/key-terms/tracing/).

Select which Sentry features you'd like to install in addition to Error Monitoring to get the corresponding installation and configuration instructions below.

<OnboardingOptionButtons
options={[
'error-monitoring',
'performance',
'logs',
]}
/>

## Install

<PlatformContent includePath="getting-started-install" />
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Expand Up @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ To disable default integrations, you can provide an empty list of integrations w

```go
sentry.Init(sentry.ClientOptions{
Dsn: "https://[email protected]/0",
Dsn: "___PUBLIC_DSN___",
Integrations: func(i []sentry.Integration) []sentry.Integration {
return []sentry.Integration{}
},
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