Disabling sending errors to a project in Sentry

Overview

If an application becomes unhealthy it can begin to send thousands of errors at Sentry if there is no rate limiting built in, this can lead to using all the Sentry quota. This page describes the steps to disable a project on Sentry and stop it sending errors in such a situation.

Disabling errors

1. Navigate to the Sentry Project Page
2. Select the Project you wish to disable
3. Select the settings page (top right Cog wheel)
4. Navigate to Client Keys (DSN)
5. Select “Disable” for ALL keys.
6. Reduce to Rate Limit to 1 on all keys in the keys configure page
7. Using the relevant documentation from the Sentry Docs - reduce the sample rate at the code level using the relevant SDK.

Relevant links

• JavaScript SDK sample rate
• Python SDK sample rate
• .NET SDK sample rate

This page was last reviewed on 5 September 2024. It needs to be reviewed again on 5 December 2024 by the page owner #operations-engineering-alerts .