How can I Retrieve Truncated Data in Sentry?

Issue

My error messages shortened, preventing me from obtaining vital debugging information.

Applies To

• All Sentry Users

Resolution

Note: If data is already truncated, it cannot be retrieved as truncated data is discarded during event processing.

• If you haven't already, try increasing max_value_length (or equivalent). Most SDKs have the option to increase the character limit. Note: The hard limit is 8192 characters.

sentry_sdk.init(
   dsn="...",
   max_value_length=8192
)

• If the max length is not enough, try adding the data to the scope (docs) to capture it as context (docs) as that field has higher data limits. Alternately, you can add custom logic using the before-send (docs) to check for the length of the message, and if it is over the limit (docs), add it to the context data field.