[iOS + Android] Add the ability to intercept errors from native side and forward them to JS console by alwx · Pull Request #5622 · getsentry/sentry-react-native

alwx · 2026-02-05T14:09:22Z

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Bugfix
New feature
Enhancement
Refactoring

📜 Description

Was born as an attempt to fix #5566 and turned out to be a good idea in general.
It also fixes #5242

This PR makes it possible to intercept native logs (currently only works with iOS and only with a patch, see notes below) and forward them to JS console:

Sentry.init({
  onNativeLog: ({ level, component, message }) => {
    // Use logWithoutTracing to avoid feedback loops with Sentry's console integration
    logWithoutTracing(`[Sentry Native] [${level.toUpperCase()}] [${component}] ${message}`);
  },
  debug: true,
}

(that only works when debug is set to true)

This PR makes it so that instead of handling HTTP code 413 somehow separately we can allow users to just get native logs in their JS console and see code 413 or any other error codes themselves. Filtering per level or component is also possible.

Notes

⚠️ Currently is works on Android without any further changes but on iOS it only works with a minor change to SentrySDKLog.swift. The change is done in this PR: getsentry/sentry-cocoa#7444

📝 Checklist

I added tests to verify changes
No new PII added or SDK only sends newly added PII if sendDefaultPII is enabled
I updated the docs if needed.
I updated the wizard if needed.
All tests passing
No breaking changes

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github-actions · 2026-02-05T14:09:43Z

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[iOS + Android] Add the ability to intercept errors from native side and forward them to JS console by alwx in #5622

chore(deps): update Sentry Android Gradle Plugin to v6.1.0 by github-actions in #5687
Ref(CI): Add android sdk version check by lucas-zimerman in #5686

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packages/core/src/js/NativeLogListener.ts

lucas-zimerman

So far it's looking good! I left a few suggestions that would be nice to be addressed before merging.

alwx · 2026-02-12T10:06:19Z

I've updated this PR to support Android as well (that was easy on Android because all the required methods are already there) 🎉

github-actions · 2026-02-12T12:14:49Z

Android (legacy) Performance metrics 🚀

	Plain	With Sentry	Diff
Startup time	416.23 ms	449.76 ms	33.53 ms
Size	43.75 MiB	48.42 MiB	4.67 MiB

Baseline results on branch: main

Startup times

Revision	Plain	With Sentry	Diff
`ff5a06a`+dirty	405.97 ms	439.24 ms	33.27 ms
`8ff81c0`+dirty	574.58 ms	611.44 ms	36.86 ms
`8d0a325`+dirty	406.48 ms	415.02 ms	8.54 ms
`6c36ba5`+dirty	385.48 ms	442.36 ms	56.88 ms
`817b2c1`+dirty	471.91 ms	489.55 ms	17.64 ms
`136effd`+dirty	398.57 ms	494.91 ms	96.34 ms
`95aaf8a`	437.89 ms	419.45 ms	-18.44 ms
`01d24f6`+dirty	362.50 ms	362.23 ms	-0.27 ms
`6bb8427`+dirty	360.48 ms	400.04 ms	39.56 ms
`1853710`	555.47 ms	556.59 ms	1.12 ms

App size

Revision	Plain	With Sentry	Diff
`ff5a06a`+dirty	43.75 MiB	48.05 MiB	4.29 MiB
`8ff81c0`+dirty	43.75 MiB	48.05 MiB	4.29 MiB
`8d0a325`+dirty	43.75 MiB	48.08 MiB	4.33 MiB
`6c36ba5`+dirty	43.75 MiB	48.41 MiB	4.66 MiB
`817b2c1`+dirty	43.75 MiB	48.40 MiB	4.64 MiB
`136effd`+dirty	43.75 MiB	47.99 MiB	4.23 MiB
`95aaf8a`	17.75 MiB	19.68 MiB	1.93 MiB
`01d24f6`+dirty	17.75 MiB	19.74 MiB	2.00 MiB
`6bb8427`+dirty	43.75 MiB	48.08 MiB	4.33 MiB
`1853710`	17.75 MiB	19.68 MiB	1.94 MiB

github-actions · 2026-02-12T12:15:23Z

Android (new) Performance metrics 🚀

	Plain	With Sentry	Diff
Startup time	403.78 ms	421.56 ms	17.78 ms
Size	43.94 MiB	49.29 MiB	5.35 MiB

Baseline results on branch: main

Startup times

Revision	Plain	With Sentry	Diff
`55b77fc`+dirty	410.46 ms	414.11 ms	3.65 ms
`c7f264b`+dirty	356.98 ms	407.46 ms	50.48 ms
`90e7cb3`+dirty	415.17 ms	458.48 ms	43.31 ms
`d1fd647`+dirty	374.46 ms	409.51 ms	35.05 ms
`7091004`+dirty	377.76 ms	402.11 ms	24.35 ms
`69602ce`+dirty	375.37 ms	405.28 ms	29.91 ms
`1c38acd`+dirty	411.84 ms	470.18 ms	58.34 ms
`3e0a5f9`+dirty	379.92 ms	450.96 ms	71.04 ms
`bb4ea33`+dirty	360.73 ms	375.02 ms	14.29 ms
`0b64753`+dirty	358.55 ms	429.16 ms	70.61 ms

App size

Revision	Plain	With Sentry	Diff
`55b77fc`+dirty	43.94 MiB	48.82 MiB	4.88 MiB
`c7f264b`+dirty	7.15 MiB	8.41 MiB	1.26 MiB
`90e7cb3`+dirty	43.94 MiB	48.85 MiB	4.91 MiB
`d1fd647`+dirty	7.15 MiB	8.43 MiB	1.28 MiB
`7091004`+dirty	43.94 MiB	48.81 MiB	4.88 MiB
`69602ce`+dirty	7.15 MiB	8.41 MiB	1.26 MiB
`1c38acd`+dirty	43.94 MiB	48.91 MiB	4.97 MiB
`3e0a5f9`+dirty	7.15 MiB	8.42 MiB	1.27 MiB
`bb4ea33`+dirty	43.94 MiB	48.91 MiB	4.97 MiB
`0b64753`+dirty	7.15 MiB	8.42 MiB	1.27 MiB

samples/react-native/ios/sentryreactnativesample.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj

antonis

Awesome idea and execution @alwx 🎸

⚠️ Currently is works on Android without any further changes but on iOS it only works with a minor change to SentrySDKLog.swift. The change is done in this PR: getsentry/sentry-cocoa#7444

Since this requires a Cocoa change we may target v8 (or wait to be merged) since the v9 bumped required changes in the ObjC gluecode and there might be conflicts with the changes here.

alwx · 2026-02-16T09:12:19Z

@antonis rebased this one to the current main 🎉

antonis

@antonis rebased this one to the current main 🎉

Awesome! The change LGTM. Let's wait for getsentry/sentry-cocoa#7444 to land in the next Cocoa release and 🚢

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cursor · 2026-02-23T09:52:07Z

packages/core/ios/RNSentryExperimentalOptions.m

        return;
    }
-    sentryOptions.experimental.enableSessionReplayInUnreliableEnvironment = enabled;
+    // sentryOptions.experimental.enableSessionReplayInUnreliableEnvironment = enabled;


Session replay setting silently disabled by commenting out

High Severity

The enableSessionReplayInUnreliableEnvironment assignment is commented out, making setEnableSessionReplayInUnreliableEnvironment:sentryOptions: a no-op. This is unrelated to the PR's native log forwarding feature. Callers in RNSentryStart.m and SentrySDKWrapper.m still invoke this method when session replay is enabled, but it now silently does nothing. This will break session replay on iOS 26+ (Liquid Glass) and cause multiple existing tests to fail because they assert enableSessionReplayInUnreliableEnvironment is set to YES.

cursor · 2026-02-23T09:52:07Z

samples/react-native/src/App.tsx


 Sentry.init({
+  debug: true,
+  environment: 'dev',


Development settings added to sample app configuration

Low Severity

debug: true and environment: 'dev' are newly added to the sample app's Sentry.init. While debug: true may be intentional to showcase the new native log forwarding feature, environment: 'dev' appears to be a personal development setting unrelated to this PR's purpose. These settings weren't present before and change the sample app's default behavior for anyone using it as a reference.

cursor · 2026-02-23T09:52:07Z

packages/core/android/src/main/java/io/sentry/react/RNSentryLogger.java

+ * This allows native SDK logs to appear in the Metro console when debug mode is enabled.
+ */
+public class RNSentryLogger implements ILogger {
+  private static final String TAG = "Sentry";


Android Logcat tag silently changed from "RNSentry" to "Sentry"

Low Severity

RNSentryLogger uses TAG = "Sentry" for its internal AndroidLogger, but the previous logger in RNSentryModuleImpl used NAME = "RNSentry" as the Logcat tag. This silently changes all Logcat output tags for the React Native Sentry module, which could break developers' Logcat filtering workflows that rely on the "RNSentry" tag.

Additional Locations (1)

packages/core/android/src/main/java/io/sentry/react/RNSentryModuleImpl.java#L88-L90

alwx force-pushed the alwx/experiment/native-logs branch from 2108fe1 to f369c1d Compare February 9, 2026 12:40

alwx changed the title ~~WIP: An (ongoing) experiment with adding native logs listener~~ Native logs listener Feb 10, 2026

alwx changed the title ~~Native logs listener~~ Native logs listener to intercept errors from native side and forward them to JS console Feb 10, 2026

alwx changed the title ~~Native logs listener to intercept errors from native side and forward them to JS console~~ Intercept errors from native side and forward them to JS console Feb 10, 2026

alwx changed the title ~~Intercept errors from native side and forward them to JS console~~ Add the ability to intercept errors from native side and forward them to JS console Feb 10, 2026

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Making setOutput in SentrySDKLog.swift public to make it possible to forward logs to the JS console getsentry/sentry-cocoa#7444

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