sentry / sentry-php-tracer

0.1.0 2026-11-03 10:34 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.0 <8.6

MIT

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-11-03 10:39 UTC

Extension name: ext-sentry

Supports Zend Thread Safety (ZTS): ✅

Supports non-Thread Safe mode (NTS): ✅

Supported operating systems: no restrictions

README

Caution

Work in progress. Expect API changes while not 1.0

Sentry extension to enable automatic instrumentation of methods and functions.

Methods/functions can be instrumented by either declaring the #[\Sentry\Trace] attribute on them or registering them with \Sentry\instrument("MyClass", "myFunction).

The extension is meant to only provide telemetry information for methods/functions, such as duration or start_time. Creating spans and maintaining a proper span will be done in the SDK to minimize the number of required updates for the extension itself.

Callbacks

The extension offers two callbacks, one before a function is executed and one after execution.

Data returned in the startCallback will be passed back as second parameter of the endCallback. This provides a way to pass data between the callbacks without a custom storage.

Each callback gets a data array as first parameter with the following keys:

Key	When	Description
start_time	start,end	The start time as float timestamp
end_time	end	The end time as float timestamp
duration	end	The duration in float milliseconds
name	start,end	The name of the function/method
metadata	start,end	The array with the metadata specified, see below

Example

\Sentry\setStartCallback(static function (array $data) {
    return ['spanId' => generateSpanId()];
});

\Sentry\setEndCallback(static function (array $data, $userData) {
    setTelemetryData([
        'name' => $data['name'],
        'duration' => $data['duration'],
        'spanId' => $userData['spanId'];
    ]);
});

Attributes/Metadata

Metadata/attributes can be provided in the attribute and the instrument function.

Attribute: #[\Sentry\Trace(['my-attribute' => 'test', 'other' => 'foo'])]

Function: \Sentry\instrument("MyClass", "myFunction", ['my-attribute' => 'test', 'other' => 'foo']

Build the extension

phpize
./configure
make
make install

To verify the extension is loaded, run

php -m | grep -i sentry

Generate _arginfo.h

make <file-name>_arginfo.h

Contributing

Development environment

To build PHP locally, you'll need a variety of dependencies. For macOS, you may use brew to install them.

brew install autoconf
brew install bison
brew install libiconv
brew install re2c
brew install pkg-config

Update your PATH.

export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/bison/bin:$PATH"
export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/libiconv/bin:$PATH"

Next, clone the PHP source.

git clone [e-mail]:php/php-src.git

Checkout the release branch you want to compile the extension against, for the time being, we'll use 8.2.0.

git checkout -b php-8.2.0 PHP-8.2.0

Create a php.ini.

touch ~/php-bin/DEBUG/etc

date.timezone=GMT
max_execution_time=30
memory_limit=128M

error_reporting=E_ALL | E_STRICT
display_errors=1
log_errors=1

extension=sentry.so

We can now build an NTS DEBUG version of PHP.

./buildconf

./configure --enable-debug \
  --with-iconv=$(brew --prefix libiconv) \
  --prefix=$HOME/php-bin/DEBUG \
  --with-config-file-path=$HOME/php-bin/DEBUG/etc

make -j8 (Depending on the amount of logical cores of your CPU)
make install

Make sure the compiled PHP version is first in your PATH.

export PATH="$HOME/php-bin/DEBUG/bin:$PATH"

You can now build the extension as mentioned above.