You're probably overdue for a Sentry SDK upgrade

Half of all Sentry JS SDK installs are on v8 or older. If you're one of them, here's what you're missing, and how to close the gap without the pain.

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~50% of Sentry JS SDK installs (npm, March 2026) are on v8 or earlier, missing Session Replay, Structured Logs, and native LLM monitoring added in v9/v10. Upgrading adds automatic instrumentation for OpenAI, Anthropic, and LangChain calls—token usage, latency, errors per call—directly actionable for AI cost governance and observability stack decisions.

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Session Replay. Structured logs. AI monitoring. Automatic OpenTelemetry tracing. Feature flag tracking. If you haven’t seen these in your Sentry dashboard, your SDK version is probably the reason.

Whether you’re on @sentry/react, @sentry/nextjs, @sentry/vue, @sentry/angular, @sentry/sveltekit, or any other @sentry/* package, they all version together. When we say v10, we mean all of them.

Here’s the thing: based on npm download numbers, roughly half of all Sentry JavaScript SDK installs are still on v8 or older.

The numbers

We pulled npm download stats for the major @sentry/* packages. Here’s where weekly installs land as of March 2026:

You're probably overdue for a Sentry SDK upgrade

You're probably overdue for a Sentry SDK upgrade

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