Built-in monitoring & alerting for stuck / unprocessed envelopes #4936
Description
Problem Statement
A customer encountered an issue where their application silently stopped sending events to Sentry. After local investigation, they discovered a number of .envelope files accumulating in the SDK’s local Sentry folder including very large files (~2GB) and very old files (dating back to February).
After manually clearing the folder, the Sentry SDK immediately resumed normal operation.
To prevent this kind of silent failure, they are requesting a built-in mechanism in the Sentry SDK that can detect envelope backlogs and surface an alert or warning to the Sentry dashboard (or at least application logs) so teams can act before ingestion silently stops.
Solution Brainstorm
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