Setting Monitoring in Makerkit | Next.js SaaS Boilerplate

Makerkit provides first-class support for two monitoring providers:

1. Baselime (now part of Cloudflare)
2. Sentry

Makerkit will set up a few things for you out of the box:

1. Performance Metrics - Instrumentation using Next.js's instrumentation hook
2. Client exceptions - Automatically capturing uncaught exceptions on the client
3. Server exceptions - Automatically capturing server-side exceptions captured by the Next.js instrumentation hook

Additionally, it provides you with the tools to manually capturing exceptions, should you want to.

Configuring Monitoring in Makerkit

To set up monitoring in your application, you need to define the two variables below:

# sentry or baselime
NEXT_PUBLIC_MONITORING_PROVIDER=
# performance monitoring (only required for Baselime)
ENABLE_MONITORING_INSTRUMENTATION=true
INSTRUMENTATION_SERVICE_NAME=your_service_name

1. Monitoring Provider - the monitoring provider to use. Based on this variable, Makerkit will provide the relative implementation.
2. Enable Instrumentation - if enabled, we report performance metrics to the provider using Next.js

For the provider's specific settings, please check the relative documentation.

Performance Monitoring

Performance monitoring uses Next.js' experimental instrumentation for reporting performance metrics using OpenTelemetry.

NB: Performance monitoring is only enabled for Node.js runtimes.