diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 9b45e9e..fe4aba8 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -47,19 +47,19 @@ add_executable(BeamMP-Server
         include/TResourceManager.h src/TResourceManager.cpp
         include/THeartbeatThread.h src/THeartbeatThread.cpp
         include/Http.h src/Http.cpp
-        #include/SocketIO.h src/SocketIO.cpp
+        include/Sentry.h src/Sentry.cpp
         include/TPPSMonitor.h src/TPPSMonitor.cpp
         include/TNetwork.h src/TNetwork.cpp)
 
 target_include_directories(BeamMP-Server PUBLIC "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/include" "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/commandline")
 
 find_package(Lua REQUIRED)
-target_include_directories(BeamMP-Server PUBLIC ${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${LUA_INCLUDE_DIR} "socket.io-client-cpp/src" "include/tomlplusplus")
+target_include_directories(BeamMP-Server PUBLIC ${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${LUA_INCLUDE_DIR} "socket.io-client-cpp/src" "include/tomlplusplus" "include/sentry-native")
 
 find_package(OpenSSL REQUIRED)
 
 if (UNIX)
-    target_link_libraries(BeamMP-Server z pthread stdc++fs ${LUA_LIBRARIES} crypto ${OPENSSL_LIBRARIES} commandline sioclient_tls)
+    target_link_libraries(BeamMP-Server z pthread stdc++fs ${LUA_LIBRARIES} crypto ${OPENSSL_LIBRARIES} commandline sioclient_tls sentry)
 elseif (WIN32)
     include(FindLua)
     find_package(ZLIB REQUIRED)
diff --git a/include/Sentry.h b/include/Sentry.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..40006ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/Sentry.h
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+#ifndef SENTRY_H
+#define SENTRY_H
+
+#include <string>
+
+// singleton, dont make this twice
+class Sentry final {
+public:
+    Sentry(const std::string& SentryUrl);
+    ~Sentry();
+private:
+};
+
+#endif // SENTRY_H
diff --git a/src/Sentry.cpp b/src/Sentry.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ed593b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Sentry.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#include "Sentry.h"
+#include "Common.h"
+
+#include "sentry.h"
+
+Sentry::Sentry(const std::string& SentryUrl) {
+    sentry_options_t* options = sentry_options_new();
+    sentry_options_set_dsn(options, SentryUrl.c_str());
+    auto ReleaseString = "BeamMP-Server@" + Application::ServerVersion();
+    sentry_options_set_release(options, ReleaseString.c_str());
+    sentry_init(options);
+}
+
+Sentry::~Sentry() {
+    sentry_close();
+}
diff --git a/src/main.cpp b/src/main.cpp
index b78446f..9d064f4 100644
--- a/src/main.cpp
+++ b/src/main.cpp
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #include "Common.h"
 #include "Http.h"
+#include "Sentry.h"
 #include "TConfig.h"
 #include "THeartbeatThread.h"
 #include "TLuaEngine.h"
@@ -7,6 +8,8 @@
 #include "TPPSMonitor.h"
 #include "TResourceManager.h"
 #include "TServer.h"
+
+#include <sentry.h>
 #include <thread>
 
 #ifdef __unix
@@ -44,6 +47,21 @@ int main(int argc, char** argv) {
 #endif // DEBUG
 #endif // __unix
 
+    // FIXME: this is not prod ready, needs to be compile-time value
+    char* sentry_url = getenv("SENTRY_URL");
+    if (!sentry_url) {
+        error("no sentry url supplied in environment, this is not a fatal error");
+    } else {
+        info("sentry url has length " + std::to_string(std::string(sentry_url).size()));
+    }
+
+    Sentry sentry(sentry_url);
+
+    sentry_capture_event(sentry_value_new_message_event(
+        /*   level */ SENTRY_LEVEL_INFO,
+        /*  logger */ "custom",
+        /* message */ "It works!"));
+
     setlocale(LC_ALL, "C");
 
     bool Shutdown = false;