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Documents stream mode across the Dart/Flutter configuration pages, mirroring the equivalent Python effort (#18510). This is the "Config & other pages" slice of the span streaming docs work.

  • Add the stream mode options traceLifecycle, beforeSendSpan, and ignoreSpans (since 9.19.0) to the Options pages
  • Note on tracesSampler that stream mode passes a different sampling context (samplingContext.spanContext)
  • Add a "Filtering Spans in Stream Mode" section to Filtering (ignoreSpans / beforeSendSpan)
  • Add a stream mode callout to Sampling
  • Note scrubbing via beforeSendSpan on Sensitive Data
  • Note that profiling is unavailable in stream mode on Profiling

All changes applied to both the common Dart pages and the Flutter guide overrides. Verified against the sentry-dart source (9.19.0).

Depends on the New Spans anchor pages (#18554) for the /tracing/new-spans/ links to resolve.

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Pull request overview

Documents Dart/Flutter “stream mode” (span streaming) behavior across existing Configuration and data-management pages, aligning Dart/Flutter guidance with the corresponding Python documentation effort and the new span APIs introduced in sentry-dart 9.19.0.

Changes:

  • Adds Stream Mode configuration options (traceLifecycle, beforeSendSpan, ignoreSpans) to Options pages (common + Flutter override).
  • Adds stream-mode-specific guidance to Sampling, Filtering, and Sensitive Data pages (including samplingContext.spanContext and span scrubbing).
  • Notes feature limitations in stream mode (profiling unavailable) on the Flutter Profiling page.

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docs/platforms/dart/guides/flutter/profiling/index.mdx Adds a warning that profiling is not available in stream mode.
docs/platforms/dart/guides/flutter/data-management/sensitive-data/index.mdx Adds stream-mode span scrubbing guidance via beforeSendSpan and link to New Spans.
docs/platforms/dart/guides/flutter/configuration/sampling.mdx Adds stream-mode callout about tracesSampler sampling context (samplingContext.spanContext).
docs/platforms/dart/guides/flutter/configuration/options.mdx Documents stream-mode options (traceLifecycle, beforeSendSpan, ignoreSpans) and sampling-context note.
docs/platforms/dart/guides/flutter/configuration/filtering.mdx Adds a stream-mode section describing span filtering/modification using ignoreSpans/beforeSendSpan.
docs/platforms/dart/common/data-management/sensitive-data/index.mdx Same stream-mode sensitive data guidance for the common Dart pages.
docs/platforms/dart/common/configuration/sampling.mdx Same stream-mode sampling-context callout for the common Dart pages.
docs/platforms/dart/common/configuration/options.mdx Same stream-mode options and sampling-context note for the common Dart pages.
docs/platforms/dart/common/configuration/filtering.mdx Same stream-mode filtering section for the common Dart pages.

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<Alert>

Stream mode is opt-in. The classic transaction-based mode (`SentryTraceLifecycle.static`) remains the default. See <PlatformLink to="/tracing/new-spans/">New Spans</PlatformLink> for the full guide.

</Alert>
Add the stream mode configuration options (traceLifecycle, beforeSendSpan,
ignoreSpans) to the Options pages, and cover stream mode behavior in the
filtering, sampling, sensitive-data, and profiling pages for both Dart and
Flutter. Note that a custom tracesSampler receives a different sampling
context and that profiling is unavailable in stream mode.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@buenaflor buenaflor force-pushed the buenaflor/docs/dart-span-streaming-config branch from 77a12de to 7328412 Compare July 1, 2026 10:23
@buenaflor buenaflor changed the base branch from master to buenaflor/docs/dart-span-streaming-new-spans July 1, 2026 10:23
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