diff --git a/src/common/sentry.ts b/src/common/sentry.ts
index 4bb495dbc6..282afa6f32 100644
--- a/src/common/sentry.ts
+++ b/src/common/sentry.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ import { Dedupe, Offline } from "@sentry/integrations";
 import { sentryDsn, isProduction } from "./vars";
 import { UserStore } from "./user-store";
 import { inspect } from "util";
+import type { BrowserOptions } from "@sentry/electron/renderer";
+import type { ElectronMainOptions } from "@sentry/electron/main";
 
 /**
  * "Translate" 'browser' to 'main' as Lens developer more familiar with the term 'main'
@@ -22,12 +24,12 @@ function mapProcessName(processType: string) {
 /**
  * Initialize Sentry for the current process so to send errors for debugging.
  */
-export async function SentryInit() {
+export function initializeSentryReporting(init: (opts: BrowserOptions | ElectronMainOptions) => void) {
   const processName = mapProcessName(process.type);
 
-  const { init } = process.type === "browser"
-    ? await import("@sentry/electron/main")
-    : await import("@sentry/electron/renderer");
+  if (!sentryDsn) {
+    return; // do nothing if not configured to avoid uncaught error in dev mode
+  }
 
   init({
     beforeSend: (event) => {
diff --git a/src/main/index.ts b/src/main/index.ts
index 0a902d3fd0..4162b30bcd 100644
--- a/src/main/index.ts
+++ b/src/main/index.ts
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ import configurePackages from "../common/configure-packages";
 import { PrometheusProviderRegistry } from "./prometheus";
 import * as initializers from "./initializers";
 import { WeblinkStore } from "../common/weblink-store";
-import { SentryInit } from "../common/sentry";
+import { initializeSentryReporting } from "../common/sentry";
 import { ensureDir } from "fs-extra";
 import { initMenu } from "./menu/menu";
 import { kubeApiUpgradeRequest } from "./proxy-functions";
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ import syncGeneralCatalogEntitiesInjectable from "./catalog-sources/sync-general
 import hotbarStoreInjectable from "../common/hotbar-store.injectable";
 import applicationMenuItemsInjectable from "./menu/application-menu-items.injectable";
 import type { DiContainer } from "@ogre-tools/injectable";
+import { init } from "@sentry/electron/main";
 
 async function main(di: DiContainer) {
   app.setName(appName);
@@ -68,7 +69,7 @@ async function main(di: DiContainer) {
   /**
    * Note: this MUST be called before electron's "ready" event has been emitted.
    */
-  await SentryInit();
+  initializeSentryReporting(init);
   await di.runSetups();
   await app.whenReady();
 
diff --git a/src/renderer/bootstrap.tsx b/src/renderer/bootstrap.tsx
index d8201ed6ec..3d1f9abf3d 100644
--- a/src/renderer/bootstrap.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/bootstrap.tsx
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import configurePackages from "../common/configure-packages";
 import * as initializers from "./initializers";
 import logger from "../common/logger";
 import { WeblinkStore } from "../common/weblink-store";
-import { SentryInit } from "../common/sentry";
+import { initializeSentryReporting } from "../common/sentry";
 import { registerCustomThemes } from "./components/monaco-editor";
 import { getDi } from "./getDi";
 import { DiContextProvider } from "@ogre-tools/injectable-react";
@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ import navigateToAddClusterInjectable  from "../common/front-end-routing/routes/
 import addSyncEntriesInjectable from "./initializers/add-sync-entries.injectable";
 import hotbarStoreInjectable from "../common/hotbar-store.injectable";
 import { bindEvents } from "./navigation/events";
-import deleteClusterDialogModelInjectable
-  from "./components/delete-cluster-dialog/delete-cluster-dialog-model/delete-cluster-dialog-model.injectable";
+import deleteClusterDialogModelInjectable from "./components/delete-cluster-dialog/delete-cluster-dialog-model/delete-cluster-dialog-model.injectable";
+import { init } from "@sentry/electron/renderer";
 
 configurePackages(); // global packages
 registerCustomThemes(); // monaco editor themes
@@ -60,8 +60,9 @@ async function attachChromeDebugger() {
 
 export async function bootstrap(di: DiContainer) {
   if (process.isMainFrame) {
-    await SentryInit();
+    initializeSentryReporting(init);
   }
+
   await di.runSetups();
 
   // TODO: Consolidate import time side-effect to setup time