Issue
I have a project that received an event with the message "This is an example Python exception". Why did this happen?
Applies To
Any Sentry User.
Symptoms
In some cases an example Python exception are observed in non-Python projects
Resolution
This example exception was triggered by interacting with the UI and is created intentionally to illustrate product features like the Issues stream, event details view or project plugin functionality.
The only ways to create a Python exception like this is to either interact with an empty issue stream in a new Python project and explicitly ask for a "sample event". Or to trigger a sample event by testing a plugin from the plugin's UI:
Testing the Webhook plugin in any project, regardless of the project type, will produce an exception with the title: "This is an example Python exception".