Searchable custom context

[lhunath]

Problem Statement

It's not 100% clear whether this is currently possible or not, but if so, I could not discover how —

It would be great if Sentry's issue search would allow us to search issued based on structured custom context values. Without this ability, the developer is incentivized to neglect structured custom contexts for tags instead, which are searchable.

In addition, custom data associated with the sentry user in the SDK similarly ought to be surfaced.

Solution Brainstorm

eg.

<my_context_key>.<structured>.<context>.<value>.<path>:<myvalue>

or

context.<my_context_key>.<structured>.<context>.<value>.<path>:<myvalue>

For data associated to the sentry user, eg. through sentryUser.data = ["custom_key": "value"]:

user.<custom_key>:<value>

or

user.data.<custom_key>:<value>

Since user-associated data appears in the issue event identically as a custom context named "User", perhaps the best consistency would be achieved with the combination:

<my_context_key>.<structured>.<context>.<value>.<path>:<myvalue>
user.<custom_key>:<value>

Product Area

Issues

[getsantry]

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[jangjodi]

Hi lhunath, we currently do not support searching custom context, but we do support searching custom tags. Would this fit your use case?

[lhunath]

thanks, @jangjodi, that is what this feature request is about.

The fact that custom context is not eligible for search causes developers to be pushed away from this feature and resort to custom tags instead, which are a often times not the correct feature for exposing issue-specific context details and also are not as useful in the sentry web app.

[jangjodi]

I see, thank you @lhunath! I will add this feature request to our backlog.