Stackdriver Error Reporting Instrumentation

The google-cloud-error_reporting gem provides framework instrumentation features to make it easy to report exceptions from your application.

Quick Start

require "google/cloud/error_reporting"

# Insert a Rack Middleware to report unhanded exceptions
use Google::Cloud::ErrorReporting::Middleware

# Or explicitly submit exceptions
begin
  fail "Boom!"
rescue => exception
  Google::Cloud::ErrorReporting.report exception
end

Configuration

The default configuration enables Stackdriver instrumentation features to run on Google Cloud Platform. You can easily configure the instrumentation library if you want to run on a non Google Cloud environment or you want to customize the default behavior.

See the Configuration Guide for full configuration parameters.

Rack Middleware and Railtie

The google-cloud-error_reporting gem provides a Rack Middleware class that can easily integrate with Rack based application frameworks, such as Rails and Sinatra. When enabled, it automatically gathers application exceptions from requests and submits the information to the Stackdriver Error Reporting service. On top of that, the google-cloud-error_reporting also implements a Railtie class that automatically enables the Rack Middleware in Rails applications when used.

Rails Integration

To use the Stackdriver Error Reporting Railtie for Ruby on Rails applications, simply add this line to config/application.rb:

require "google/cloud/error_reporting/rails"

Alternatively, check out the stackdriver gem, which enables this Railtie by default.

Rack Integration

Other Rack-based framework can also directly leverage the Middleware directly:

require "google/cloud/error_reporting"

use Google::Cloud::ErrorReporting::Middleware

Report Captured Exceptions

Captured Ruby exceptions can be reported directly to Stackdriver Error Reporting by using Google::Cloud::ErrorReporting.report:

begin
  fail "Boom!"
rescue => exception
  Google::Cloud::ErrorReporting.report exception
end

The reported error event can also be customized:

begin
  fail "Boom!"
rescue => exception
  Google::Cloud::ErrorReporting.report exception do |error_event|
    # Directly modify the Google::Cloud::ErrorReporting::ErrorEvent object before submission
    error_event.message     = "Custom error message"
    error_event.user        = "johndoh@example.com"
    error_event.http_status = 502
  end
end

See Google::Cloud::ErrorReporting::ErrorEvent class for all options.