getsentry / getsentry/sentry

Spike protection keeps triggering after planned audits

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Improvement Product Area: Settings - Spike Protection
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Description

### Problem Statement

When we run a planned audit that causes a big but expected spike in errors, Sentry’s spike protection turns on (as expected) but then keeps triggering afterward during normal traffic.

This causes:

- Extra “spike protection triggered/ended” emails
- Some real production events being dropped even when volume looks normal

Can spike protection handle planned spikes (like audits or load tests) better so that:

- A one-time, intentional spike doesn’t make the system overly sensitive afterward
- We don’t lose normal production events or get noisy alerts once traffic is back to usual

### Product Area

Settings - Spike Protection

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Start in Settings - Spike Protection and trace how planned audits affect later spike detection, event dropping, and notifications. Clarify the expected behavior for intentional one-time spikes versus normal traffic, then validate that normal events are retained and duplicate alerts do not continue after traffic returns to usual.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
observability
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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