Event Processors

Learn more about how you can add your own event processors globally or to the current scope.

You can enrich events with additional data by adding your own event processors, either on the scope level or globally. Though event processors are similar to beforeSend and beforeSendTransaction, there are two key differences:

  • beforeSend and beforeSendTransaction are guaranteed to be run last, after all other event processors, (which means they get the final version of the event right before it's sent, hence the name). Event processors added with either of the methods below run in an undetermined order, which means changes to the event may still be made after the event processor runs.
  • While beforeSend, beforeSendTransaction, and processors added with Sentry.addGlobalEventProcessor run globally, regardless of scope, processors added with scope.addEventProcessor only run on events captured while that scope is active.

Like beforeSend and beforeSendTransaction, event processors are passed two arguments, the event itself and a hint object containing extra metadata.

Event processors added to the current scope will run on every event sent after they are added.

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Sentry.addEventProcessor(function (event, hint) {
  // Add anything to the event here
  // returning `null` will drop the event
  return event;
});

Event processors added to a local scope using withScope only apply to events captured inside that scope.

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Sentry.withScope(function (scope) {
  scope.addEventProcessor(function (event, hint) {
    // Add anything to the event here
    // returning `null` will drop the event
    return event;
  });
  // The event processor will apply to this event
  Sentry.captureMessage('Test');
});

// The event processor will NOT apply to this event
Sentry.captureMessage('Test2');
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