Posthog Sentryplugin makes stack trace not readable in Sentry

[lasseklovstad]

Hi I found a bug in SentryPlugin that makes the stack traces in sentry unreadable when using source maps.

I am using:

"posthog-js": "1.218.2",
"@sentry/react": "^9.1.0",
"@sentry/vite-plugin": "^3.1.0",

node: 22

import * as Sentry from "@sentry/react";
import posthog from "posthog-js";
import React from "react";
import {
  createRoutesFromChildren,
  matchRoutes,
  useLocation,
  useNavigationType,
} from "react-router";

// Using the posthog.sentryIntegrationPlugin makes the stack trace unreadable
Sentry.init({
    dsn: ENV.SENTRY_DSN,
    integrations: [
      Sentry.browserProfilingIntegration(),
      Sentry.reactRouterV7BrowserTracingIntegration({
        useEffect: React.useEffect,
        useLocation,
        useNavigationType,
        createRoutesFromChildren,
        matchRoutes,
      }),
      posthog.sentryIntegration({
        organization: "project",
        projectId: 123,
      }),
    ],
  });

Stack trace in sentry looks like this. We can only see the minified version:

Work around

I have found a workaround. After inspecting the source code for the sentryPlugin https://github.com/PostHog/posthog-js/blob/main/src/extensions/sentry-integration.ts we can just write it ourself as a custom plugin:

  Sentry.init({
    dsn: ENV.SENTRY_DSN,
    integrations: [
      Sentry.browserProfilingIntegration(),
      Sentry.reactRouterV7BrowserTracingIntegration({
        useEffect: React.useEffect,
        useLocation,
        useNavigationType,
        createRoutesFromChildren,
        matchRoutes,
      }),
      {
        name: "posthog-js",
        preprocessEvent: (event) => {
          if (event.level !== "error") return event;
          if (!event.tags) event.tags = {};
          const personUrl = posthog.requestRouter.endpointFor(
            "ui",
            `/project/${posthog.config.token}/person/${posthog.get_distinct_id()}`,
          );
          event.tags["PostHog Person URL"] = personUrl;
          if (posthog.sessionRecordingStarted()) {
            event.tags["PostHog Recording URL"] =
              posthog.get_session_replay_url({ withTimestamp: true });
          }
          return event;
        },
      },
    ],
  });

This only creates a one way binding from Sentry to Posthog and not the other way. But for me this is fine.

Root cause

I think the root cause is that the sentryPlugin is mutating the exceptions of the event from Sentry:

const exceptions: _SentryException[] = event.exception?.values || []

        exceptions.forEach((exception) => {
            if (exception.stacktrace) {
                exception.stacktrace.type = 'raw'

                exception.stacktrace.frames.forEach((frame: any) => {
                    frame.platform = 'web:javascript'
                })
            }
        })

Instead of mutating this i think it should be mapped over and copied to a new variable.

[knd775]

Ah, so this is what has been ruining our stacktraces. Can confirm, happening to us too. I appreciate the workaround.

[lforst]

Opened a PR to fix: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog-js/pull/1762/files

[joshkel]

Is this still an issue? It looks like that #1762 was superseded by #1790, which has been merged and released.

[lasseklovstad]

Yeh shouldn't be an issue anymore