Support Express v5

[mydea]

Description

It seems that Express v5 is actually close: https://github.com/expressjs/express/releases/tag/v5.0.0

We should ensure we have support for this. This means ensuring that this is supported upstream in the OTEL instrumentation.

[joergbaier]

I would appreciate sentry supporting express v5. Having support here would help express finally get v5 released under the "latest" tag. 🙏

Sentry also integrates with GQL and I believe the @apollo/server + express pairing is fairly popular.
apollographql/apollo-server#7928

[timfish]

Otel PR:

• feat(instrumentation-express): Add support for Express v5 open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js-contrib#2437

[AbhiPrasad]

Update: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js-contrib#2437 (comment)

[kvjoshi]

is it suggested to use sentry for monitoring in production with express v5 (performance , profiling and error tracing ) ?
we are migrating a few projects to v5 and i encountered the instrumentation warning , landed here i guess its going to take some time before sentry supports v5 . can we have a timeline for that ?

[andreiborza]

@kvjoshi we are still waiting on open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js-contrib#2437, at the moment we don't have an ETA. You can subscribe to this issue to get notified when we have updates.

[mydea]

Also, just one note here: You should be able to use Sentry with Express 5, you'll just lack a few performance-related data points: You will not have properly parametrized routes, as well as e.g. middleware spans will be lacking. Error monitoring and basic http-server tracing will still work, even now!