@sentry/node with includeLocalVariables is not showing anything about local variables on any errors on the Sentry dashboard

Is there an existing issue for this?

I have checked for existing issues https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-javascript/issues
I have reviewed the documentation https://docs.sentry.io/
I am using the latest SDK release https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-javascript/releases

How do you use Sentry?

Sentry Saas (sentry.io)

Which SDK are you using?

@sentry/node

SDK Version

~~7.64.0~~ 7.73.0

Framework Version

Node 18.15.0

Link to Sentry event

[private]

SDK Setup

import * as Sentry from '@sentry/node'

Sentry.init({
  environment: ...,
  dsn: ...,
  tracesSampleRate: 1.0,
  includeLocalVariables: true,
  integrations: [
    new Sentry.Integrations.LocalVariables({
      captureAllExceptions: true,
    }),
  ],
  debug: true,
})

Steps to Reproduce

I'm trying to use @sentry/node's new includeLocalVariables (https://blog.sentry.io/local-variables-for-nodejs-in-sentry/).
I'm using Sentry SDK 7.73.0 with Node 18.15.0 (TypeScript, without ESM modules), which should work fine. But my caught errors do not show any local variables in the Sentry Dashboard.

Expected Result

Each caught error would the values of show local variables as such on the Sentry dashboard (picture from the blog post):

Actual Result

The errors show up fine as before, but no local variables can be seen anywhere from the dashboard:

┆Issue is synchronized with this Jira Improvement by Unito

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@maximlopin2

I suspect this might be an issue with the top level scope. @maximlopin2 if you put all the logic into a function, does local variables show up?
function run() {
  const someVariable1 = 1
  
  try {
    const someVariable2 = 2
    unknownFunction()
  } catch (e) {
    Sentry.captureException(e)
  }
}

run();

Yes, now it at least shows one of the variables 🤔

@maximlopin2

@maximlopin2 I think that is as good as it gets for now 🤔 @timfish we need a stack frame to match stuff right? Maybe there's an issue with top level calls.

Also @maximlopin2 are just doing plain Node.js code or ts-node or something like that. I am thinking that the runtime optimized someVariable2 away when the exception was recorded...

I'll add some tests for top level capture and see if we can add any special handling for that.

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`@sentry/node` with `includeLocalVariables` is not showing anything about local variables on any errors on the Sentry dashboard #8928

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`@sentry/node` with `includeLocalVariables` is not showing anything about local variables on any errors on the Sentry dashboard #8928