Environments

Environments tell you where an error occurred, whether that's in your production system, your staging server, or elsewhere.

Environments are case-sensitive. The environment name can't contain newlines, spaces or forward slashes, can't be the string "None", or exceed 64 characters. You can't delete environments, but you can hide them.

import sentry_sdk

sentry_sdk.init(
    # ...

    environment="staging",
)

If you do not set environment in init(), the Sentry SDK will check for the environment variable, SENTRY_ENVIRONMENT. If this is not set, environment will default to production.

Environments help you better filter issues, releases, and user feedback in the Issue Details page of sentry.io, which you learn more about in our documentation that covers using environments.