diff --git a/.env.example b/.env.example
index 50d6cc1..0b05f33 100644
--- a/.env.example
+++ b/.env.example
@@ -5,3 +5,5 @@ EMAIL_BACKEND=django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend
 EMAIL_SENDGRID_REPLY_TO=reply-to@fakesendgrid.com
 PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
 SECRET_KEY="django-insecure-l@1xnj747ei)9ex(0zkfyy6zv@&*=i$wi9722=ji7)+s^_kuvy"
+SENTRY_ENABLED=off
+SENTRY_DSN=dsn_example
diff --git a/journal/sentry/__init__.py b/journal/sentry/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/journal/sentry/apps.py b/journal/sentry/apps.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b7f6126
--- /dev/null
+++ b/journal/sentry/apps.py
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+import sentry_sdk
+from django.apps import AppConfig
+from django.conf import settings
+from sentry_sdk.integrations.django import DjangoIntegration
+
+
+def traces_sampler(sampling_context):  # pragma: no cover
+    """Select a sample rate off of the requested path.
+
+    The root endpoint seemed to get hammered by some bot and ate a huge percent
+    of transactions in a week. I don't care about that page right now,
+    so ignore it.
+    """
+    path = sampling_context.get("wsgi_environ", {}).get("PATH_INFO", "")
+    if path == "/":
+        return 0
+
+    return 1.0
+
+
+class SentryConfig(AppConfig):
+    default_auto_field = "django.db.models.BigAutoField"
+    name = "journal.sentry"
+
+    def ready(self):  # pragma: no cover
+        """Initialize Sentry.
+
+        Sentry initialization is moved to an application ready timeframe
+        because it triggers circular imports with settings when used with
+        type checking when django-stubs is enabled.
+        """
+        if not settings.SENTRY_ENABLED:
+            return
+
+        sentry_sdk.init(
+            dsn=settings.SENTRY_DSN,
+            integrations=[
+                DjangoIntegration(),
+            ],
+            traces_sampler=traces_sampler,
+            send_default_pii=True,
+        )
diff --git a/project/settings.py b/project/settings.py
index e9ffffd..03775d1 100644
--- a/project/settings.py
+++ b/project/settings.py
@@ -6,10 +6,11 @@
 BASE_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
 
 env = environ.Env(
+    ACCOUNT_DEFAULT_HTTP_PROTOCOL=(str, "https"),
     ALLOWED_HOSTS=(list, []),
     DEBUG=(bool, False),
     EMAIL_BACKEND=(str, "FIXME: replace with anymail backend Issue #10"),
-    ACCOUNT_DEFAULT_HTTP_PROTOCOL=(str, "https"),
+    SENTRY_ENABLED=(bool, True),
 )
 environ.Env.read_env(BASE_DIR / ".env")
 
@@ -39,6 +40,7 @@
     "journal.accounts",
     "journal.core",
     "journal.entries",
+    "journal.sentry",
 ]
 
 MIDDLEWARE = [
@@ -203,3 +205,8 @@
     "rankdir": "BT",
     "output": "models.png",
 }
+
+# sentry-sdk
+
+SENTRY_ENABLED = env("SENTRY_ENABLED")
+SENTRY_DSN = env("SENTRY_DSN")
diff --git a/requirements.in b/requirements.in
index 991daf8..baa7f1f 100644
--- a/requirements.in
+++ b/requirements.in
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ django-allauth==0.54.0
 django-environ==0.10.0
 django-extensions==3.2.3
 gunicorn==20.1.0
+sentry-sdk==1.28.1
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index c744118..90d49e7 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@
 asgiref==3.6.0
     # via django
 certifi==2023.5.7
-    # via requests
+    # via
+    #   requests
+    #   sentry-sdk
 cffi==1.15.1
     # via cryptography
 charset-normalizer==3.1.0
@@ -45,10 +47,14 @@ requests==2.31.0
     #   requests-oauthlib
 requests-oauthlib==1.3.1
     # via django-allauth
+sentry-sdk==1.28.1
+    # via -r requirements.in
 sqlparse==0.4.4
     # via django
 urllib3==2.0.2
-    # via requests
+    # via
+    #   requests
+    #   sentry-sdk
 
 # The following packages are considered to be unsafe in a requirements file:
 # setuptools