diff --git a/elastalert/elastalert.py b/elastalert/elastalert.py
index a933eff0f..2cb3ffc27 100755
--- a/elastalert/elastalert.py
+++ b/elastalert/elastalert.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 import logging
 import os
 import signal
+import socket
 import sys
 import time
 import timeit
@@ -48,6 +49,9 @@
 from util import ts_now
 from util import ts_to_dt
 from util import unix_to_dt
+from raven import Client
+from raven.conf import setup_logging
+from raven.handlers.logging import SentryHandler
 
 
 class ElastAlerter():
@@ -127,6 +131,16 @@ def __init__(self, args):
             tracer.setLevel(logging.INFO)
             tracer.addHandler(logging.FileHandler(self.args.es_debug_trace))
 
+        if os.environ.get('SENTRY_DSN') is not None:
+            sentry = Client(
+                dsn=os.getenv('SENTRY_DSN'),
+                name=os.environ.get('HOST', socket.getfqdn())
+            )
+            handler = SentryHandler(sentry)
+            handler.setLevel(logging.WARNING)
+            setup_logging(handler)
+            elastalert_logger.info("Configured errors reporting to Sentry: %s" % os.getenv('SENTRY_DSN'))
+
         self.conf = load_rules(self.args)
         self.max_query_size = self.conf['max_query_size']
         self.scroll_keepalive = self.conf['scroll_keepalive']
diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index 36daa0ebd..b2c720857 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@ pytest<3.3.0
 setuptools
 sphinx_rtd_theme
 tox<2.0
+raven>=6.4.0
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 47676fc9b..edebfb7e9 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ PyStaticConfiguration>=0.10.3
 python-dateutil>=2.6.0,<2.7.0
 PyYAML>=3.12
 requests>=2.0.0
+raven>=6.4.0
 stomp.py>=4.1.17
 texttable>=0.8.8
 twilio==6.0.0