Error Reporting client libraries

This page shows how to get started with the Cloud Client Libraries for the Error Reporting API. Client libraries make it easier to access Google Cloud APIs from a supported language. Although you can use Google Cloud APIs directly by making raw requests to the server, client libraries provide simplifications that significantly reduce the amount of code you need to write.

Read more about the Cloud Client Libraries and the older Google API Client Libraries in Client libraries explained.

Install the client library

C#

Install-Package Google.Cloud.ErrorReporting.V1Beta1 -pre

For more information, see Setting Up a C# Development Environment.

Go

go get cloud.google.com/go/errorreporting

For more information, see Setting Up a Go Development Environment.

Java

If you are using Maven, add the following to your pom.xml file. For more information about BOMs, see The Google Cloud Platform Libraries BOM.

<dependencyManagement>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
      <artifactId>libraries-bom</artifactId>
      <version>26.50.0</version>
      <type>pom</type>
      <scope>import</scope>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>

<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
    <artifactId>google-cloud-errorreporting</artifactId>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>

If you are using Gradle, add the following to your dependencies:

implementation 'com.google.cloud:google-cloud-errorreporting:0.174.0-beta'

If you are using sbt, add the following to your dependencies:

libraryDependencies += "com.google.cloud" % "google-cloud-errorreporting" % "0.174.0-beta"

If you're using Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ, or Eclipse, you can add client libraries to your project using the following IDE plugins:

• Cloud Code for VS Code
• Cloud Code for IntelliJ
• Cloud Tools for Eclipse

The plugins provide additional functionality, such as key management for service accounts. Refer to each plugin's documentation for details.

For more information, see Setting Up a Java Development Environment.

Node.js

npm install --save @google-cloud/error-reporting

For more information, see Setting Up a Node.js Development Environment.

PHP

composer require google/cloud-error-reporting

For more information, see Using PHP on Google Cloud.

Python

pip install --upgrade google-cloud-error-reporting

For more information, see Setting Up a Python Development Environment.

Ruby

gem install google-cloud-error_reporting

For more information, see Setting Up a Ruby Development Environment.

Set up authentication

To authenticate calls to Google Cloud APIs, client libraries support Application Default Credentials (ADC); the libraries look for credentials in a set of defined locations and use those credentials to authenticate requests to the API. With ADC, you can make credentials available to your application in a variety of environments, such as local development or production, without needing to modify your application code.

For production environments, the way you set up ADC depends on the service and context. For more information, see Set up Application Default Credentials.

For a local development environment, you can set up ADC with the credentials that are associated with your Google Account:

1. Install the Google Cloud CLI, then initialize it by running the following command:

   gcloud init

2. If you're using a local shell, then create local authentication credentials for your user account:

   gcloud auth application-default login

   You don't need to do this if you're using Cloud Shell.

   A sign-in screen appears. After you sign in, your credentials are stored in the local credential file used by ADC.

Use the client library

The following example shows how to use the client library.

C#

using Google.Api.Gax.ResourceNames;
using Google.Cloud.ErrorReporting.V1Beta1;
using System;

public class ErrorReportingSample
{
    static String projectId;

    public static void Main(string[] args)
    {
	    // Set your Google Cloud Platform project ID via environment or explicitly
        if (args != null && args.Length > 0 && !String.IsNullOrEmpty(args[0]))
        {
            projectId = args[0];
        }
        else
        {
            projectId = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT");
        }

        try
        {
            throw new Exception("Something went wrong");
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            ReportError(e);
            Console.WriteLine("Stackdriver Error Report Sent");
        }
    }


    /// <summary>
    /// Report an exception to the Error Reporting service.
    /// </summary>
    private static void ReportError(Exception e)
    {
        // Create the report and execute the request.
        var reporter = ReportErrorsServiceClient.Create();
        var projectName = new ProjectName(projectId);

        // Optionally add a service context to the report. For more details see:
        // https://cloud.google.com/error-reporting/reference/rest/v1beta1/ServiceContext
        var assemblyName = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().GetName();
        var serviceContext = new ServiceContext()
        {
            Service = assemblyName.Name,
            Version = assemblyName.Version.ToString(),
        };
        var errorEvent = new ReportedErrorEvent()
        {
            Message = e.ToString(),
            ServiceContext = serviceContext,
        };
        reporter.ReportErrorEvent(projectName, errorEvent);
    }
}

Go

// Sample errorreporting_quickstart contains is a quickstart
// example for the Google Cloud Error Reporting API.
package main

import (
	"context"
	"errors"
	"log"
	"os"

	"cloud.google.com/go/errorreporting"
)

var errorClient *errorreporting.Client

func main() {
	// Set your Google Cloud Platform project ID via environment or explicitly
	projectID := os.Getenv("GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT")
	args := os.Args[1:]
	if len(args) > 0 && args[0] != "" {
		projectID = args[0]
	}

	ctx := context.Background()
	var err error
	errorClient, err = errorreporting.NewClient(ctx, projectID, errorreporting.Config{
		ServiceName:    "errorreporting_quickstart",
		ServiceVersion: "0.0.0",
		OnError: func(err error) {
			log.Printf("Could not report the error: %v", err)
		},
	})
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	defer errorClient.Close()

	err = errors.New("something went wrong")
	if err != nil {
		logAndPrintError(err)
		return
	}
}

func logAndPrintError(err error) {
	/// Client autopopulates the error context of the error. For more details about the context see:
	/// https://cloud.google.com/error-reporting/reference/rest/v1beta1/ErrorContext
	errorClient.Report(errorreporting.Entry{
		Error: err,
	})
	log.Print(err)
}

Java

import com.google.cloud.ServiceOptions;
import com.google.devtools.clouderrorreporting.v1beta1.ProjectName;
import com.google.devtools.clouderrorreporting.v1beta1.ReportErrorsServiceClient;
import com.google.devtools.clouderrorreporting.v1beta1.ReportedErrorEvent;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.StringWriter;

/**
 * Snippet demonstrates using the Error Reporting API to report an exception.
 * <p>
 * When the workload runs on App Engine, GKE, Cloud Functions or another managed environment,
 * printing the exception's stack trace to stderr will automatically report the error
 * to Error Reporting.
 */
public class QuickStart {

  static String projectId;

  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    // Set your Google Cloud Platform project ID via environment or explicitly
    projectId = ServiceOptions.getDefaultProjectId();
    if (args.length > 0) {
      projectId = args[0];
    } else {
      String value = System.getenv("GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT");
      if (value != null && value.isEmpty()) {
        projectId = value;
      }
    }

    try {
      throw new Exception("Something went wrong");
    } catch (Exception ex) {
      reportError(ex);
    }
  }

  /**
   * Sends formatted error report to Google Cloud including the error context.
   *
   * @param ex Exception containing the error and the context.
   * @throws IOException if fails to communicate with Google Cloud
   */
  private static void reportError(Exception ex) throws IOException {
    try (ReportErrorsServiceClient serviceClient = ReportErrorsServiceClient.create()) {
      StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
      PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(sw);
      ex.printStackTrace(pw);

      ReportedErrorEvent errorEvent = ReportedErrorEvent.getDefaultInstance()
          .toBuilder()
          .setMessage(sw.toString())
          .build();
      // If you need to report an error asynchronously, use reportErrorEventCallable()
      // method
      serviceClient.reportErrorEvent(ProjectName.of(projectId), errorEvent);
    }
  }
}

Node.js

// Import the Google Cloud client library
const {ErrorReporting} = require('@google-cloud/error-reporting');

function quickstart() {
  try {
    throw new Error('Something went wrong');
  } catch (exception) {
    reportError(exception);
  }
}

function reportError(exception) {
  // Instantiates a client
  const errors = new ErrorReporting();

  // Reports an exception
  errors.report(exception.stack);
}

PHP

// Imports the Cloud Client Library
use Google\Cloud\ErrorReporting\Bootstrap;
use Google\Cloud\Logging\LoggingClient;
use Google\Cloud\Core\Report\SimpleMetadataProvider;

// These variables are set by the App Engine environment. To test locally,
// ensure these are set or manually change their values.
$projectId = getenv('GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT') ?: 'YOUR_PROJECT_ID';
$service = getenv('GAE_SERVICE') ?: 'error_reporting_quickstart';
$version = getenv('GAE_VERSION') ?: 'test';

// Instantiates a client
$logging = new LoggingClient([
    'projectId' => $projectId,
]);
// Set the projectId, service, and version via the SimpleMetadataProvider
$metadata = new SimpleMetadataProvider([], $projectId, $service, $version);
// Create a PSR-3 compliant logger
$psrLogger = $logging->psrLogger('error-log', [
    'metadataProvider' => $metadata,
]);
// Using the Error Reporting Bootstrap class, register your PSR logger as a PHP
// exception hander. This will ensure all exceptions are logged to Stackdriver.
Bootstrap::init($psrLogger);

print('Throwing a test exception. You can view the message at https://console.cloud.google.com/errors.' . PHP_EOL);
throw new Exception('Something went wrong');

Python

def report_exception():
    from google.cloud import error_reporting

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

Ruby

require "google/cloud/error_reporting"

begin
  raise "Something went wrong"
rescue StandardError => e
  Google::Cloud::ErrorReporting.report e
end

Additional resources

C#

The following list contains links to more resources related to the client library for C#:

• API reference
• Client libraries best practices
• Issue tracker
• google-cloud-error-reporting on Stack Overflow
• Source code

Go

The following list contains links to more resources related to the client library for Go:

• API reference
• Client libraries best practices
• Issue tracker
• google-cloud-error-reporting on Stack Overflow
• Source code

Java

The following list contains links to more resources related to the client library for Java:

• API reference
• Client libraries best practices
• Issue tracker
• google-cloud-error-reporting on Stack Overflow
• Source code

Node.js

The following list contains links to more resources related to the client library for Node.js:

• API reference
• Client libraries best practices
• Issue tracker
• google-cloud-error-reporting on Stack Overflow
• Source code

PHP

The following list contains links to more resources related to the client library for PHP:

• API reference
• Client libraries best practices
• Issue tracker
• google-cloud-error-reporting on Stack Overflow
• Source code

Python

The following list contains links to more resources related to the client library for Python:

• API reference
• Client libraries best practices
• Issue tracker
• google-cloud-error-reporting on Stack Overflow
• Source code

Ruby

The following list contains links to more resources related to the client library for Ruby:

• API reference
• Client libraries best practices
• Issue tracker
• google-cloud-error-reporting on Stack Overflow
• Source code