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Using Spotlight

Spotlight provides an Electron app that can be used to run the Sidecar as well as a dedicated instance of the overlay.

Installation

Get started by downloading the latest version of the Electron app for your platform.

Other ways

If Electron apps are not your thing or you are not using a Mac we have some more ways to run Spotlight with it’s web UI:

Terminal window
npx @spotlightjs/spotlight

SDK Setup

In addition to loading the application, make sure you’ve enabled spotlight in the relevant Sentry SDKs (e.g. via spotlight: true):

For front-end applications, you need to enable the spotlightBrowserIntegration for it to work. This is to only include this bit of the code for the users of Spotlight:

import * as Sentry from '@sentry/browser';
Sentry.init({
dsn: '___DSN___',
integrations: [Sentry.spotlightBrowserIntegration()],
// ...other Sentry options
});