Tracking errors

Everything is an event in Eventvisor, including errors. This guide will show you how you can define platform-specific errors as events and then track them using Eventvisor SDKs.

Defining error event#

Before tracking anything, we need to define the event that will be tracked later from your application(s):

description: JavaScript error event
tags:
  - web
level: error
properties:
  name:
    type: string
  message:
    type: string
  stack:
    type: string
  errors:
    type: array
    items:
      type: object
      properties:
        name:
          type: string
        message:
          type: string
required:
  - message

Above, we are defining a JavaScript error event called js_error.

You are recommended to use a prefix depending on the language of your application, because different languages and runtimes have different shapes of errors.

Tracking errors#

Now from your application using JavaScript SDK, you can track js_error events like this:

cont error = new Error("Something went wrong");
eventvisor.track("js_error", error);

Benefits#

Because errors are now tracked via Eventvisor, you can benefit from:

• Conditional routing
• Filtering
• Sampling
• Transformations

...and more out of the box.