Error Reporting¶

Real-time error tracking and alerting.

Overview¶

Error Reporting aggregates and displays errors from cloud services, providing real-time notifications and detailed error analysis.

Key Features¶

Automatic error detection
Error grouping
Stack trace analysis
Real-time notifications
Integration with logging
Free service

Automatic Error Detection¶

Supported Services: - App Engine - Cloud Functions - Cloud Run - GKE - Compute Engine (with agent)

Error Detection:

Automatically detects:
  • Exceptions in logs
  • HTTP 5xx errors
  • Crash reports
  • Stack traces

Manual Error Reporting¶

Python:

from google.cloud import error_reporting

client = error_reporting.Client()

try:
    raise Exception("Something went wrong")
except Exception:
    client.report_exception()

Node.js:

const {ErrorReporting} = require('@google-cloud/error-reporting');
const errors = new ErrorReporting();

errors.report('Something went wrong');

Best Practices¶

✓ Enable error reporting for all services
✓ Add context to errors
✓ Set up notifications
✓ Regular error triage
✓ Link to issue tracker

Last Updated: March 2026