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Native OpenTelemetry Error Monitoring
Learn how to export errors to highlight.io via one of the OpenTelemetry SDKs.
1
Export your errors to the highlight.io collector.
We host an OpenTelemetry collector endpoint at https://otel.highlight.io:4318/v1/traces and https://otel.highlight.io:4318/v1/logs. Configure your OpenTelemetry SDK to send errors via OTLP HTTPS to this endpoint. Your Highlight Project ID should be included as an attribute with the highlight.project_id
key. This configuration will depend on which SDK you use in your app.
import { NodeSDK } from '@opentelemetry/sdk-node'
import { OTLPTraceExporter } from '@opentelemetry/exporter-trace-otlp-http';
import { Resource } from '@opentelemetry/resources'
import type { Attributes } from '@opentelemetry/api'
const attributes: Attributes = {
'highlight.project_id': '<YOUR_PROJECT_ID>'
}
const sdk = new NodeSDK({
resource: new Resource(attributes),
traceExporter: new OTLPTraceExporter({
url: 'https://otel.highlight.io:4318/v1/traces'
})
});
const tracer = trace.getTracer('my-service');
sdk.start();
const main = () => {
const span = tracer.startSpan('main')
span.setAttributes({
['highlight.session_id']: 'abc123',
['highlight.trace_id']: 'def456',
customer: 'vadim',
customer_id: 1234
})
try {
throw new Error('This is an example error');
} catch (error) {
span.recordException(error)
} finally {
span.end()
}
};
main();
2
Verify your errors are being recorded.
Verify that the backend error handling works by triggering the code that reports the error to highlight and visiting the highlight errors portal.