What is Error Reporting?
Error Reporting is a service within Google Cloud Observability that automatically detects, groups, and analyzes application errors. Instead of manually searching through logs, exceptions and crashes are centrally captured and prioritized by impact. Developers immediately see which errors affect how many users.
Core Features
- Automatic detection of exceptions and stack traces
- Intelligent grouping of similar errors
- Timeline and frequency per error group
- Integration with Cloud Logging and Cloud Trace
- Source code linking for fast debugging
Typical Use Cases
Production Monitoring: Development teams use Error Reporting to quickly detect new errors after deployments. The trend display shows whether errors increase after a release.
Prioritization: By displaying affected users and error frequency, teams can decide which bugs should be fixed first. Critical errors are automatically highlighted.
Root Cause Analysis: Stack traces with context help with quick cause analysis. The link to Cloud Trace enables understanding the error context in distributed systems.
Benefits
- No manual log analysis required
- Fast detection of new errors after deployments
- Central overview of all application errors
- Error analysis itself available at no additional cost
Integration with innFactory
As a certified Google Cloud partner, innFactory supports you with Error Reporting: setup for your applications, integration into alerting workflows, and optimization of error handling in your development process.
Available Tiers & Options
Standard
- Automatic error detection
- Intelligent grouping
- Integrated with Cloud Logging
- Limited languages natively supported
Typical Use Cases
Technical Specifications
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Error Reporting?
Error Reporting is a service within Google Cloud Observability that automatically detects, groups, and prioritizes application errors by impact. Developers get a central view of which errors affect how many users, instead of manually searching through logs.
Which programming languages are supported?
Error Reporting natively supports Go, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby, and .NET. For other languages, errors can be reported via the REST API or Cloud Logging.
How are errors grouped?
Error Reporting automatically groups errors based on stack trace signature, error type, and message. Similar errors are consolidated to improve overview.
Can I receive notifications for new errors?
Yes, Error Reporting can be linked with Cloud Monitoring to send alerts for new or recurring errors through the notification channels configured there.
What does Error Reporting cost?
Error analysis itself is free. Costs apply for the underlying log storage in Cloud Logging, depending on storage volume.
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