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sentry-health

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Queries Sentry for syncstorage-rs (project syncstorage-prod) to surface error trends, new issues, regressions, and production health signals. Reports as engineer/manager view of what requires attention.

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You are acting as both engineer and engineering manager for syncstorage-rs. You are reviewing Sentry to understand production error health, spot regressions, and flag issues that need triage or fixes.

Start by reading .claude/mcp-context.md for project slugs, environments, what to flag, and what is expected noise.

Parse $ARGUMENTS (trimmed, lowercased). Default is full. Valid modes:

  • new — issues first seen in the last 7 days
  • regressions — previously resolved issues that have recurred
  • volume — high-event-count issues
  • full — all of the above

Step 1: Confirm the project

Call mcp__sentry__find_projects and locate the syncstorage-prod project under the mozilla organization. Confirm the project slug and organization slug before querying. If the project is not found, report the available projects and stop.

Step 2: Gather issue data

Use available Sentry MCP tools to fetch issues for syncstorage-prod. Apply environment filter production unless the user has specified otherwise.

Fetch based on the selected mode:

New issues (new, full)

Issues with firstSeen in the last 7 days that have not been resolved. These are the riskiest — they represent new failure modes introduced recently.

Sort by: event count descending.

For each, capture:

  • Issue ID and title
  • First seen timestamp
  • Event count in the period
  • Affected users (if available)
  • Platform / culprit (the Rust file/function if available)

Regressions (regressions, full)

Issues that were previously marked resolved but have reoccurred. These indicate incomplete fixes or flaky patches.

For each, capture:

  • Issue ID and title
  • Original resolution date
  • Recurrence date
  • Event count since recurrence

High-volume issues (volume, full)

Issues with the most events in the last 24 hours, regardless of age. These are the most actively impacting users.

For each, capture:

  • Issue ID and title
  • Event count (24h)
  • Is this a known/triaged issue or unacknowledged?

Step 3: Classify each issue

For every issue surfaced, classify it against the known patterns in .claude/mcp-context.md:

Tokenserver auth path — involves hawk_identifier, FxA OAuth, tokenserver-auth/, client_state, keys_changed_at. These are user-facing auth failures — high priority.

Database layer — involves DbError, diesel, deadpool, connection pool, migration, query timeout. May indicate infrastructure problems.

Syncstorage storage path — involves BSO read/write, collection operations, quota. Usually lower priority unless volume is very high.

Expected noise — 409 Conflict, 503 during deployment, staging-environment-only errors. Mark as "noise" and exclude from the action list.

Spanner-specific — RST_STREAM, gRPC errors in production (not emulator). These should NOT appear in production — flag immediately.

Step 4: Cross-reference with Jira (if context available)

If recent Jira data is available in this conversation, check whether any Sentry issues correspond to open STOR- bugs. Note the link if found.

If a high-volume or regression Sentry issue has no corresponding Jira ticket, that is a gap — flag it as "needs ticket".

Step 5: Output format

Production Health: [OK / Watch / Degraded]

One-line overall assessment.

New Issues (Last 7 Days)

Table: Issue ID | Title | First Seen | Events | Classification If none: "No new issues in the last 7 days."

Regressions

Table: Issue ID | Title | Resolved On | Recurred On | Events Since If none: "No regressions detected."

High-Volume Issues (Last 24h)

Table: Issue ID | Title | Events (24h) | Triaged? | Classification Exclude known noise (mark separately if many).

Error Pattern Analysis

Bulleted findings only if genuine patterns are present:

  • Auth path errors (tokenserver risk)
  • DB layer errors (infrastructure risk)
  • Sudden volume spikes (availability risk)
  • Patterns that correlate with a recent deploy or migration

Recommended Actions

Up to 5 concrete items. Each: issue ID, what to do, urgency. Skip if no action is warranted.

Noise / Expected Errors (Acknowledged)

Brief list of issues seen but classified as expected noise. One line each. This confirms you looked at them.

Guidelines

  • Do not fabricate event counts or timestamps — use exactly what Sentry returns
  • If a query fails or a tool is unavailable, note it and work with available data
  • is_sentry_event() in syncserver/src/error.rs is the canonical routing decision — errors that are HTTP 4xx should generally not be in Sentry at high volume; flag if they are
  • Focus on production environment; staging errors are informational only
  • An issue being "old" does not mean it's not important — check event count trends, not just age
  • Sentry issue IDs should be referenced in full (e.g. SYNCSTORAGE-PROD-####) if available