Sentry support for AvaloniaUI

[manuc66]

Problem Statement

I am attempting to integrate Sentry into my AvaloniaUI application for error monitoring and reporting. However, I have encountered challenges as there doesn't seem to be official support or guidance for using the Sentry .NET SDK with AvaloniaUI applications.

Solution Brainstorm

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[jamescrosswell]

Hey @manuc66, thanks for reaching out and you're right, we don't yet have anything built specifically to support Avalonia. Realistically, we won't have the bandwidth to build an official integration for this anytime soon.

I can try to help you work through the issues you've run into. As long as Avalonia has some kind of global exception handler, you could probably get some basic exception capturing going on.

There's quite a lot of complexity in instrumenting multi platform applications properly however. For our MAUI integration, we had to create bindings into Sentry's Android and iOS SDKs, to properly instrument the native code that gets produced when deploying to these platforms. That could maybe serve as an example of how this might be done in frameworks like Avalonia.

[bruno-garcia]

It should work with the core Sentry package. Just SentrySdk.Init early in the program. You can also use any Avalonia specific error handler and call into SentrySdk.CaptureException.

Here's how we document for WPF: https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/dotnet/guides/wpf/ (for WPF there was also #1036 )

That said, what would a specific Sentry.Avalonia offer? What kind of hooks, etc does Avalonia have that we could leverage?

[bitsandfoxes]

Taken from the Avalonia docs Avalonia UI does not offer any mechanism to handle exceptions globally.
So I don't think there is anything a Sentry.Avalonia would be able to provide there from an error-capturing perspective.
Subscribing to lifetime events for breadcrumbs might be nice tho.

[bruno-garcia]

Subscribing to lifetime events for breadcrumbs might be nice tho.

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