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+name: 'Integration Tests - Macrobenchmark (POC)'
+# Proof-of-concept: run the sentry-uitest-android-macrobenchmark cold-start benchmark on Sauce
+# Labs real devices. Manual trigger only — this is not yet a per-PR gate. The goal is to learn
+# (a) whether Macrobenchmark runs on non-rooted cloud devices and which device guards fire, and
+# (b) whether timeToInitialDisplay can be retrieved from Sauce artifacts. See the module README.
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  # Temporary POC scaffolding: run on pushes to this branch so we can see it work on Sauce
+  # without merging to the default branch first. Remove before merge.
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - no/macrobenchmark-on-sauce-poc
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+  macrobenchmark:
+    name: Macrobenchmark
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    # we copy the secret to the env variable in order to access it in the workflow
+    env:
+      SAUCE_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.SAUCE_USERNAME }}
+      GRADLE_ENCRYPTION_KEY: ${{ secrets.GRADLE_ENCRYPTION_KEY }}
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Git checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@9c091bb21b7c1c1d1991bb908d89e4e9dddfe3e0 # v7.0.0
+        with:
+          submodules: 'recursive'
+
+      - name: 'Set up Java: 17'
+        uses: actions/setup-java@1bcf9fb12cf4aa7d266a90ae39939e61372fe520 # v5
+        with:
+          distribution: 'temurin'
+          java-version: '17'
+
+      - name: Setup Gradle
+        uses: gradle/actions/setup-gradle@3f131e8634966bd73d06cc69884922b02e6faf92 # v6.2.0
+        with:
+          cache-encryption-key: ${{ secrets.GRADLE_ENCRYPTION_KEY }}
+
+      - name: Assemble target app and Macrobenchmark apk
+        if: env.SAUCE_USERNAME != null
+        run: ./gradlew :sentry-samples:sentry-samples-android:assembleRelease :sentry-android-integration-tests:sentry-uitest-android-macrobenchmark:assembleBenchmark
+
+      - name: Run Macrobenchmark in SauceLab
+        uses: saucelabs/saucectl-run-action@bc81720eb01738d9c664b07fe42621bd0014283f # pin@v3
+        if: env.SAUCE_USERNAME != null
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
+        with:
+          sauce-username: ${{ secrets.SAUCE_USERNAME }}
+          sauce-access-key: ${{ secrets.SAUCE_ACCESS_KEY }}
+          config-file: .sauce/sentry-uitest-android-macrobenchmark.yml
+
+      - name: Upload Sauce artifacts
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@ea165f8d65b6e75b540449e92b4886f43607fa02 # v4.6.2
+        if: always()
+        with:
+          name: macrobenchmark-artifacts
+          path: ./artifacts/
+          if-no-files-found: warn
diff --git a/.sauce/sentry-uitest-android-macrobenchmark.yml b/.sauce/sentry-uitest-android-macrobenchmark.yml
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+apiVersion: v1alpha
+kind: espresso
+sauce:
+  region: us-west-1
+  concurrency: 1
+  metadata:
+    build: sentry-uitest-android-macrobenchmark-$GITHUB_REF-$GITHUB_SHA
+    tags:
+      - benchmarks
+      - android
+      - macrobenchmark
+
+defaults:
+  timeout: 40m
+
+espresso:
+  # Target app under test: Macrobenchmark cold-starts sentry-samples-android. It must be
+  # release-like; the release build type is signed with the debug key so it installs on Sauce.
+  app: ./sentry-samples/sentry-samples-android/build/outputs/apk/release/sentry-samples-android-release.apk
+  # Instrumentation APK: the self-instrumenting com.android.test macrobenchmark module.
+  testApp: ./sentry-android-integration-tests/sentry-uitest-android-macrobenchmark/build/outputs/apk/benchmark/sentry-uitest-android-macrobenchmark-benchmark.apk
+
+suites:
+
+  - name: "Macrobenchmark startup (api 35)"
+    # No test orchestrator and no clearPackageData: Macrobenchmark manages its own process
+    # restarts and AOT compilation, and StartupMode.COLD intentionally keeps app data and
+    # permissions (it force-stops rather than `pm clear`).
+    devices:
+      - id: Google_Pixel_9_Pro_XL_15_real_sjc1 # Google Pixel 9 Pro XL - api 35 (15) - high end
+
+# Grab both the benchmark JSON (if Sauce collects additional test output) and the device log, so
+# we can see which path actually yields timeToInitialDisplay. Macrobenchmark also logs guard
+# failures (UNLOCKED, DEBUGGABLE, ...) here, which is the expected first-run signal on cloud
+# hardware — see the module README.
+artifacts:
+  download:
+    when: always
+    match:
+      - junit.xml
+      - "*.log"
+      - "*-benchmarkData.json"
+    directory: ./artifacts/