{"meta":{"name":"FindSoftware","page":"https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/spotlight/","markdown":"https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/spotlight.md","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"FindSoftware, CC BY 4.0","note":"Attributes are recorded, never scored. An absent field means unknown, never zero and never bad."},"record":{"id":"spotlight","name":"Spotlight","urls":{"home":"https://spotlightjs.com","repository":"https://github.com/getsentry/spotlight","docs":"https://spotlightjs.com/docs/"},"category":["analytics"],"description":"Local development tool that gives Sentry SDKs a place on the developer's machine to send errors, traces and logs.","maintainer":"Sentry","firstRelease":2023,"language":"javascript","contentStore":null,"databases":null,"adminUi":null,"headlessApi":null,"templating":null,"i18n":null,"runsAs":["local"],"renderingModes":null,"installMethod":"npx","licenseModel":"open-source","license":"Apache-2.0","currentMajor":"4","latestReleaseDate":"2026-10-26T00:00:00.000Z","githubStargazers":629,"contributors":44,"packagistDownloads":null,"npmWeeklyDownloads":109967,"social":{"discord":"https://discord.gg/EJjqM3XtXQ"},"checkedAt":"2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z","addedAt":"2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z","sources":[{"field":"urls","url":"https://spotlightjs.com","checkedAt":"2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z"},{"field":"urls","url":"https://github.com/getsentry/spotlight","checkedAt":"2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z"},{"field":"urls","url":"https://spotlightjs.com/docs/","checkedAt":"2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z"},{"field":"category","url":"https://spotlightjs.com/docs/getting-started/","checkedAt":"2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z"},{"field":"runsAs","url":"https://github.com/getsentry/spotlight/blob/main/README.md","checkedAt":"2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z"},{"field":"license","url":"https://github.com/getsentry/spotlight/blob/main/LICENSE","checkedAt":"2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z"},{"field":"license","url":"https://registry.npmjs.org/@spotlightjs/spotlight/latest","checkedAt":"2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z"},{"field":"maintainer","url":"https://github.com/getsentry/spotlight/blob/main/LICENSE","checkedAt":"2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z"},{"field":"firstRelease","url":"https://github.com/getsentry/spotlight/releases","checkedAt":"2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z"},{"field":"language","url":"https://github.com/getsentry/spotlight","checkedAt":"2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z"},{"field":"installMethod","url":"https://spotlightjs.com/docs/getting-started/","checkedAt":"2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z"},{"field":"installMethod","url":"https://spotlightjs.com/docs/getting-started/","checkedAt":"2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z"},{"field":"installMethod","url":"https://spotlightjs.com/docs/getting-started/","checkedAt":"2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z"},{"field":"installMethod","url":"https://spotlightjs.com/docs/getting-started/","checkedAt":"2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z"},{"field":"currentMajor","url":"https://github.com/getsentry/spotlight/releases","checkedAt":"2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z"},{"field":"latestReleaseDate","url":"https://github.com/getsentry/spotlight/releases","checkedAt":"2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z"},{"field":"githubStargazers","url":"https://github.com/getsentry/spotlight","checkedAt":"2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z"},{"field":"contributors","url":"https://github.com/getsentry/spotlight","checkedAt":"2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z"},{"field":"npmWeeklyDownloads","url":"https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/range/2026-10-26:2026-11-01/@spotlightjs/spotlight","checkedAt":"2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z"}],"status":"active","ai":"authored"},"prose":"Spotlight is a local development tool that brings Sentry's error tracking into the developer's own environment. An application adds Spotlight to its Sentry SDK configuration, and the SDK sends its events to the Sidecar, a local proxy server that runs on the developer's machine. The [getting-started guide](https://spotlightjs.com/docs/getting-started/) starts it with npx, and also covers a global npm install, a desktop app and a container image.\n\nThe tool works without a Sentry account.\n\n## Worth knowing\n\nThe container image is published to GitHub Container Registry rather than Docker Hub, and the desktop app is a separate download from the npm package."}