Simple Single Node

This is the simplest setup for self-hosted Sentry. It is recommended for small to medium-sized installations. This setup follows the minimum requirements for running Sentry.

It is highly recommended to put an external load balancer (or reverse proxy) in front of your self-hosted Sentry deployment. That way, you can tweak on rate limiting, TLS termination, and other features that does not change the built-in nginx configuration file. It is recommended to install the load balancer on your host machine instead of as a Docker container. Doing this way helps you in the event of Docker engine failure.

If using external load balancer is not possible, you can put it as a Docker container, pointing to the nginx service at port 80. Whatever value you put on your SENTRY_BIND environment variable won't matter.

graph TB
  subgraph Server
    direction TB
    nginx[External Nginx]
    sentry[Self-Hosted Sentry]

    nginx --> sentry
  end

  internet[Public Internet]

  internet--> Server

For more information regarding configuring your external load balancer, please refer to the External Load Balancer section.