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title: "What's new in Sentry Logs: The summer 2026 roundup"
description: "Sentry introduced a collection of updates to its logging platform aimed at improving search scalability, export flexibility, and general viewer usability. The system now supports URL-synced log pinning alongside an overhauled export interface that handles aggregate data, full attribute payloads, and high-volume JSONL formats across Logs, Errors, and Tracing. Performance enhancements to the log viewer include a more constrained layout with reduced initial data loads, inline error representations, individual chips for multi-value search terms, and trace-level filtering. To assist large-scale queries spanning hundreds of gigabytes or terabytes, frontend and backend modifications added longer query timeouts with continuations, clearer rate-limiting messages, and in-place retries."
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# What's new in Sentry Logs: The summer 2026 roundup

[Sentry](https://yomu.fyi/company/sentry) · Ben Coe, Allison Rogers · Aug 11, 2026

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

Sentry introduced a collection of updates to its logging platform aimed at improving search scalability, export flexibility, and general viewer usability. The system now supports URL-synced log pinning alongside an overhauled export interface that handles aggregate data, full attribute payloads, and high-volume JSONL formats across Logs, Errors, and Tracing. Performance enhancements to the log viewer include a more constrained layout with reduced initial data loads, inline error representations, individual chips for multi-value search terms, and trace-level filtering. To assist large-scale queries spanning hundreds of gigabytes or terabytes, frontend and backend modifications added longer query timeouts with continuations, clearer rate-limiting messages, and in-place retries.

## Context

Managing, navigating, and exporting large volumes of log data presented challenges in query timeouts, search usability, export overhead, and chart legibility for organizations processing hundreds of gigabytes or terabytes of logs.

## Approach / What changed

Sentry overhauled log exports with configurable row counts and JSONL support, added log pinning synced to URL state, implemented longer query timeouts with continuations, optimized page layouts and initial data loading, and added filtering directly within trace views.

## Takeaways

- Log exports feature a dedicated dialog supporting JSONL formatting, row count configuration, full row attribute payloads, and aggregate-aware output across Logs, Errors, and Tracing.
- High-volume search scalability updates include longer query timeouts with continuations, explicit rate-limit notices, in-place retry capabilities, and fixes for release:latest filters.
- Log viewer usability improvements include URL-synced log line pinning, inline error displays on issue pages, trace view filtering, and reduced initial data loading for faster page rendering.

**Tags:** [Developer Experience](https://yomu.fyi/topic/developer-experience), [Monitoring](https://yomu.fyi/topic/monitoring), [Observability](https://yomu.fyi/topic/observability), [Search](https://yomu.fyi/topic/search)

- Source: [Sentry](https://blog.sentry.io/sentry-logs-summer-2026-roundup)
- Source URL: https://blog.sentry.io/sentry-logs-summer-2026-roundup
- Ingested by Yomu: 2026-08-27T14:52:31.497Z

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