sentry-electron-user-id

Assigns a unique user id to each app install

If you disable storage of IP addresses in Sentry, you'll notice that you no longer get a count of the number of users the issue is affecting. IP address can also be an unreliable way to to determine distinct users, especially if you have a large number of users behind a corporate firewall.

Example usage

In both Electron processes, run the following code:

const Sentry = require('@sentry/electron');
const { ElectronUserID } = require('sentry-electron-user-id');
 
Sentry.init({
  dsn: '__YOUR_DSN__',
  integrations: integrations => [...integrations, new ElectronUserID()],
});

If you ever want to renew the user ID, for example if a user would like to restore their anonymity after supplying their unique ID to technical support. From any process, simply run:

const { renewUserId } = require('sentry-electron-user-id');
 
renewUserId();