Incorrect Issue Merging causing loss of Crash Visibility
- Dominant language
- Python
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Description
### Environment
SaaS (https://sentry.io/)
### Steps to Reproduce
Sentry is incorrectly merging unrelated issues, resulting in multiple crashes with different call stacks being combined into a single issue. This behavior prevents also impacts our Jira integration, where merged issues fail to generate Jira tickets.
For details, please see the internal ticket.
### Expected Result
Sentry should not merge unrelated issues with different call stacks
### Actual Result
Sentry is merging unrelated issues with different call stacks automatically.
### Product Area
Issues
### Link
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### DSN
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### Version
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Contributor guide
Research direction
No file, test, or entry point is named. Start by reviewing the linked internal ticket and the issue-merging behavior, then reproduce the case with unrelated crashes and different call stacks; done means unrelated issues remain separate and Jira ticket creation is not blocked by merging.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- backend, observability
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100