How to use Metrics with Sentry in shared environment?

[hdkshingala]

We are using Sentry with our VS Code extension and want to use the Metrics feature.

As we are in a shared environment, we setup the client manually as described in - https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/javascript/best-practices/shared-environments/.

With this type of setup, I want to know how we can use the Metrics and the docs only shows the steps by using Sentry.init as global client?

I tried using the client field under data: MetricData but received below error:

2024-06-17 12:03:26.765 [error] TypeError: acs.withScope is not a function
    at Object.withScope (/home/hardik/Work/traycerai/traycer/node_modules/@sentry/src/currentScopes.ts:75:14)
    at Object.suppressTracing (/home/hardik/Work/traycerai/traycer/node_modules/@sentry/src/tracing/trace.ts:209:10)
    at Object.makeNodeTransport [as transport] (/home/hardik/Work/traycerai/traycer/code-explorer-agent/node_modules/@sentry/src/transports/http.ts:83:25)
    at new BaseClient (/home/hardik/Work/traycerai/traycer/node_modules/@sentry/src/baseclient.ts:145:33)
    at new ServerRuntimeClient (/home/hardik/Work/traycerai/traycer/node_modules/@sentry/src/server-runtime-client.ts:52:5)
    at new NodeClient (/home/hardik/Work/traycerai/traycer/code-explorer-agent/node_modules/@sentry/src/sdk/client.ts:30:107)
    at initSentry (/home/hardik/Work/traycerai/traycer/code-explorer-agent/src/sentry.ts:19:18)
    at activate (/home/hardik/Work/traycerai/traycer/code-explorer-agent/src/extension.ts:38:13)
    at Function.kb (/usr/share/code/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:159:13460)
    at Function.jb (/usr/share/code/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:159:13173)
    at /usr/share/code/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:159:11198
    at a.n (/usr/share/code/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:143:6361)
    at a.m (/usr/share/code/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:143:6324)
    at a.l (/usr/share/code/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/api/node/extensionHostProcess.js:143:5781)

[hdkshingala]

The error was due to mismatch of the SDK version which is fixed now. I am getting some metrics by running it as below:

Sentry.metrics.increment(metricName, 1, { tags: tags, client: myScope.getClient() });

Is this the correct way of using the Metrics in the shared environments?

[AbhiPrasad]

Yes, passing in the client directly is the correct way!

[hdkshingala]

Thank you for the confirmation!