Issue
My error messages are truncated (shortened) in Sentry, and I see "Removed because of size limits" when I hover over the cut-off value. This is preventing me from getting vital debugging information. Can I retrieve the full data, and how do I stop it being truncated?
Applies To
All SaaS Customers and Self-Hosted Users
Data Handling
Resolution
No. Once data is truncated it cannot be retrieved, because the removed portion is discarded during event processing and never reaches Sentry. You can only prevent truncation for future events, using the options below.
Increase the value length limit. Most SDKs let you raise the per-value character limit with
max_value_length(namedmaxValueLengthin the JavaScript SDK). The hard limit is 8192 characters.sentry_sdk.init(
dsn="...",
max_value_length=8192,
)Do not set this higher than you need: a very large value can push the event past the 1 MiB payload limit, and Sentry drops events that exceed it.
If 8192 characters is still not enough, store the data where the limits are higher. Add it to the scope as context, which allows more data than a single value. You can also add custom logic in
before_sendthat checks the message length and, when it exceeds the per-field size limit, moves it into a context field instead.