Spotlight
Local development tool that gives Sentry SDKs a place on the developer's machine to send errors, traces and logs.
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 starts it with npx, and also covers a global npm install, a desktop app and a container image.
The tool works without a Sentry account.
Worth knowing
The container image is published to GitHub Container Registry rather than Docker Hub, and the desktop app is a separate download from the npm package.
Identity
Rendering and deploy
Releases
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-11-03: links
spotlightjs.com - 2026-11-03: links, Written in, GitHub stars, Contributors
github.com/getsentry/spotlight - 2026-11-03: links
spotlightjs.com/docs/ - 2026-11-03: Categories, Install with
spotlightjs.com/docs/getting-started/ - 2026-11-03: Runs as
github.com/getsentry/spotlight/blob/main/README.md - 2026-11-03: License, Maintainer
github.com/getsentry/spotlight/blob/main/LICENSE - 2026-11-03: License
registry.npmjs.org/@spotlightjs/spotlight/latest - 2026-11-03: First release, Current major version, Last release
github.com/getsentry/spotlight/releases - 2026-11-03: npm downloads a week
api.npmjs.org/downloads/range/2026-10-26:2026-11-01/@spotlightjs/spotlight