Error reporting

Errors are often the most significant and apparent indicator of issues in cloud services. When most well-behaved services encounter an error, they produce pertinent information about the event, such as stack trace and a human-readable message to the appropriate channels (for exampl, stderr). Being able to track these errors across all of your services is critical to quickly identifying and remedying issues. Google Cloud addresses this need with Stackdriver Error Reporting.

Stackdriver Error Reporting provides an aggregated view of errors, along with error analysis including error counts and frequency. In larger projects with many moving pieces, overly frequent errors can become noise, drowning out new, critical information. Stackdriver intelligently prioritizes new errors to compensate for this, improving the signal-to-noise ratio.

Additionally, Stackdriver Error Reporting provides mechanisms for creating error alerts to bring issues to your attention as they happen. The available...