CI/CD Monitoring for Gatsby: A Setup Guide

Overview

How often does your Gatsby deploy introduce new bugs? CI/CD monitoring gives you the answer — and helps you prevent it.

Bugsly provides a first-class Gatsby integration for ci/cd monitoring that takes minutes to set up and immediately starts delivering value.

Installation and Setup

Start by adding Bugsly to your project:

npm install @sentry/gatsby

Next, initialize the SDK in your application:

// gatsby-config.js
module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    {
      resolve: "@sentry/gatsby",
      options: {
        dsn: "YOUR_BUGSLY_DSN",
        sampleRate: 0.7,
      },
    },
  ],
};

How It Works

Once initialized, the Bugsly Gatsby SDK automatically instruments your application. Here's what happens behind the scenes:

• Automatic error capture: Unhandled exceptions and promise rejections are caught and reported with full stack traces
• Context enrichment: Each event includes environment data, request details, and user context where available
• Intelligent grouping: Similar errors are grouped together so you see issues, not individual events
• Performance data: Transaction traces help you understand the performance impact of errors

Customizing Your Integration

For Gatsby projects, we recommend enabling these additional features after the basic setup:

1. Source maps (if applicable) — upload source maps during your build so Bugsly can display readable stack traces
2. User feedback — prompt users who encounter errors for additional context
3. Custom tags — add business-specific metadata to events for filtering and analysis

Bugsly's dashboard will become your team's go-to tool for understanding what's happening in your Gatsby production environment.

Next Steps

After setting up CI/CD monitoring, configure deployment markers in Bugsly to correlate releases with error spikes. Set up commit tracking to identify which code change introduced a regression. Use Bugsly's release health dashboard to monitor crash-free rates and session stability across each deployment.