Django app not sending events

i am following the exact setup given in sentry docs, and sentry doesn’t send any events

i am debugging this issue for several hours now, google stackoverflow, nothing helped.

below are the details

sentry-sdk 2.17.0
django 3.2
djangorestframework 3.14.0

django settings.py

import sentry_sdk

sentry_sdk.init(
    dsn="dsn",
)
if not DEBUG:
    LOGGING = {
        "version": 1,
        "disable_existing_loggers": False,
        "formatters": {
            "verbose": {
                "format": "{module}:  {message} ({filename}:{lineno})",
                "style": "{",
            },
        },
        "handlers": {
            "console": {
                "level": "INFO",
                "class": "logging.StreamHandler",
                "formatter": "verbose",
            },
            "mail_admins": {
                "level": "ERROR",
                "class": "django.utils.log.AdminEmailHandler",
            },
        },
        "loggers": {
            "django": {
                "handlers": ["console", "mail_admins"],
                "level": "ERROR",
                "propagate": True,
            },
            "saturn": {
                "handlers": ["console", "mail_admins"],
                "level": "INFO",
                "propagate": False,
            },
            "integrations": {
                "handlers": ["console", "mail_admins"],
                "level": "INFO",
                "propagate": False,
            },
            "auth": {
                "handlers": ["console", "mail_admins"],
                "level": "INFO",
                "propagate": False,
            },
        },
    }
else:
    LOGGING = {
        "version": 1,
        "disable_existing_loggers": False,
        "handlers": {
            "console": {
                "class": "logging.StreamHandler",
                "formatter": "verbose",
            },
        },
        "formatters": {
            "verbose": {
                "format": "{module}:  {message}",
                "style": "{",
            },
        },
        "loggers": {
            "saturn": {
                "handlers": ["console"],
                "level": "INFO",
                "propagate": True,
            },
            "integrations": {
                "handlers": ["console"],
                "level": "INFO",
                "propagate": True,
            },
            "auth": {
                "handlers": ["console"],
                "level": "INFO",
                "propagate": True,
            },
        },
    }

REST_FRAMEWORK = {
    "DEFAULT_PERMISSION_CLASSES": [
        "rest_framework.permissions.DjangoModelPermissionsOrAnonReadOnly"
    ],
    "DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES": (
        "rest_framework_simplejwt.authentication.JWTAuthentication",
        "rest_framework.authentication.SessionAuthentication",
    ),
    "DEFAULT_FILTER_BACKENDS": [
        "django_filters.rest_framework.DjangoFilterBackend",
    ],
    "EXCEPTION_HANDLER": "api.legacy.views.custom_exception_handler",
}
def custom_exception_handler(exc, context):
    # Call REST framework's default exception handler first
    response = exception_handler(exc, context)
    capture_exception(exc)

    request_ = context["request"]
    try:
        user_id = request_.user.id
    except Exception as e:
        user_id = "none"
    try:
        path = request_.path
    except Exception as e:
        path = "unknown"

    app_version, platform = get_platform_version(request_)

    if response is not None and exc is not None:
        if exc.detail not in ["Authentication credentials were not provided."]:
            logger.error("Server Error: %s", exc, exc_info=True)
            EmailSender.notifyTechTeam(
                exc,
                f"REST API Server Error user_id = {user_id} path = {path} platform = {platform} app_version = {app_version} ",
            )

    return response

url.py

def trigger_error(request):
    try:
        division_by_zero = 1 / 0
    except ZeroDivisionError as e:
        capture_exception(e)  # Send exception to Sentry
        return HttpResponse("Exception captured and sent to Sentry!")
    
def send_test_message(request):
    capture_message("Test message from Django!")  # Send message to Sentry
    return HttpResponse("Test message sent to Sentry!")


urlpatterns = [
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    path('sentry-debug/', trigger_error),
    path('sentry-message/', send_test_message),
]

init logs of sentry

[sentry] DEBUG: Setting up integrations (with default = True)
 [sentry] DEBUG: Did not import default integration sentry_sdk.integrations.ariadne.AriadneIntegration: ariadne is not installed
 [sentry] DEBUG: Did not import default integration sentry_sdk.integrations.arq.ArqIntegration: Arq is not installed
 [sentry] DEBUG: Did not import default integration sentry_sdk.integrations.asyncpg.AsyncPGIntegration: asyncpg not installed.
 [sentry] DEBUG: Did not import default integration sentry_sdk.integrations.boto3.Boto3Integration: botocore is not installed
 [sentry] DEBUG: Did not import default integration sentry_sdk.integrations.bottle.BottleIntegration: Bottle not installed
 [sentry] DEBUG: Did not import default integration sentry_sdk.integrations.chalice.ChaliceIntegration: Chalice is not installed
 [sentry] DEBUG: Did not import default integration sentry_sdk.integrations.clickhouse_driver.ClickhouseDriverIntegration: clickhouse-driver not installed.
 [sentry] DEBUG: Did not import default integration sentry_sdk.integrations.cohere.CohereIntegration: Cohere not installed
 [sentry] DEBUG: Did not import default integration sentry_sdk.integrations.falcon.FalconIntegration: Falcon not installed
 [sentry] DEBUG: Did not import default integration sentry_sdk.integrations.fastapi.FastApiIntegration: Starlette is not installed
 [sentry] DEBUG: Did not import default integration sentry_sdk.integrations.flask.FlaskIntegration: Flask is not installed
 [sentry] DEBUG: Did not import default integration sentry_sdk.integrations.graphene.GrapheneIntegration: graphene is not installed
 [sentry] DEBUG: Did not import default integration sentry_sdk.integrations.huey.HueyIntegration: Huey is not installed
 [sentry] DEBUG: Did not import default integration sentry_sdk.integrations.pymongo.PyMongoIntegration: Pymongo not installed
 [sentry] DEBUG: Did not import default integration sentry_sdk.integrations.pyramid.PyramidIntegration: Pyramid not installed
 [sentry] DEBUG: Did not import default integration sentry_sdk.integrations.quart.QuartIntegration: Quart is not installed
 [sentry] DEBUG: Did not import default integration sentry_sdk.integrations.rq.RqIntegration: RQ not installed
 [sentry] DEBUG: Did not import default integration sentry_sdk.integrations.sanic.SanicIntegration: Sanic not installed
 [sentry] DEBUG: Did not import default integration sentry_sdk.integrations.starlette.StarletteIntegration: Starlette is not installed
 [sentry] DEBUG: Did not import default integration sentry_sdk.integrations.starlite.StarliteIntegration: Starlite is not installed
 [sentry] DEBUG: Did not import default integration sentry_sdk.integrations.strawberry.StrawberryIntegration: strawberry-graphql is not installed
 [sentry] DEBUG: Setting up previously not enabled integration argv
 [sentry] DEBUG: Setting up previously not enabled integration atexit
 [sentry] DEBUG: Setting up previously not enabled integration dedupe
 [sentry] DEBUG: Setting up previously not enabled integration excepthook
 [sentry] DEBUG: Setting up previously not enabled integration logging
 [sentry] DEBUG: Setting up previously not enabled integration modules
 [sentry] DEBUG: Setting up previously not enabled integration stdlib
 [sentry] DEBUG: Setting up previously not enabled integration threading
 [sentry] DEBUG: Setting up previously not enabled integration aiohttp
 [sentry] DEBUG: Setting up previously not enabled integration anthropic
 [sentry] DEBUG: Setting up previously not enabled integration celery
 [sentry] DEBUG: Setting up previously not enabled integration django
 [sentry] DEBUG: Setting up previously not enabled integration gql
 [sentry] DEBUG: Setting up previously not enabled integration httpx
 [sentry] DEBUG: Setting up previously not enabled integration huggingface_hub
 [sentry] DEBUG: Setting up previously not enabled integration langchain
 [sentry] DEBUG: Setting up previously not enabled integration loguru
 [sentry] DEBUG: Setting up previously not enabled integration openai
 [sentry] DEBUG: Setting up previously not enabled integration redis
 [sentry] DEBUG: Setting up previously not enabled integration sqlalchemy
 [sentry] DEBUG: Setting up previously not enabled integration tornado
 [sentry] DEBUG: Enabling integration argv
 [sentry] DEBUG: Enabling integration atexit
 [sentry] DEBUG: Enabling integration dedupe
 [sentry] DEBUG: Enabling integration excepthook
 [sentry] DEBUG: Enabling integration logging
 [sentry] DEBUG: Enabling integration modules
 [sentry] DEBUG: Enabling integration stdlib
 [sentry] DEBUG: Enabling integration threading
 [sentry] DEBUG: Enabling integration aiohttp
 [sentry] DEBUG: Enabling integration anthropic
 [sentry] DEBUG: Enabling integration celery
 [sentry] DEBUG: Enabling integration django
 [sentry] DEBUG: Enabling integration gql
 [sentry] DEBUG: Enabling integration httpx
 [sentry] DEBUG: Enabling integration huggingface_hub
 [sentry] DEBUG: Enabling integration langchain
 [sentry] DEBUG: Enabling integration loguru
 [sentry] DEBUG: Enabling integration openai
 [sentry] DEBUG: Enabling integration redis
 [sentry] DEBUG: Enabling integration sqlalchemy
 [sentry] DEBUG: Enabling integration tornado
 [sentry] DEBUG: Setting SDK name to 'sentry.python.django'
 [sentry] DEBUG: [Profiling] Setting up continuous profiler in thread mode
 [sentry] DEBUG: Setting up integrations (with default = False)
 [sentry] DEBUG: Setting SDK name to 'sentry.python'
 [sentry] DEBUG: [Profiling] Continuous Profiler is already setup