environment: default and env var

[bruno-garcia]

Ideally we mention the env var only where its applicable. Most SDKs, when running via the command line, for example. But not really mobile apps.

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[lizokm]

Suggested change

	The default value is `production`.
	The default value is `production`.

I'm not sure I understand this correctly. Are we trying to tell the user that the default environment is production? If so, why would there be a default since this is supposed to tell you where an error occurred?

[bruno-garcia]

Because without a default value it was challenging in the product for some features, so we needed to have a value and since Sentry runs in prod, by default we went with production.

It's documented here but can't link to anchor (no anchor): https://develop.sentry.dev/sdk/event-payloads/

[bruno-garcia]

PR that added to develop:

• default environment to production develop#656

Unfortunately I didn't add the context of the discussion (which happened on DIscord with @dcramer and @mitsuhiko)

[lizokm]

Need a bit of clarification :)

[shanamatthews]

Hey @bruno-garcia - This file no longer exists due to the refactor Stephanie did to prep for the Next.js rewrite transition, and has been pulled out into separate mdx files for each platform.

To make these docs make more sense, I think we should clarify this line:

Sentry automatically creates an environment when it receives an event with the environment parameter set.

Since there's a default value set, does that mean that if a user doesn't set environment, all events will be tagged as production and Sentry will automatically create a corresponding "default" environment?

I think that's the kind of information we should add to this docs page, as well as the product page for environments (/product/sentry-basics/concepts/environments/)

[bruno-garcia]

Since there's a default value set, does that mean that if a user doesn't set environment, all events will be tagged as production and Sentry will automatically create a corresponding "default" environment?

That's correct. The default environment is production.

I think that's the kind of information we should add to this docs page, as well as the product page for environments (/product/sentry-basics/concepts/environments/)

Wouldn't hurt being there too.