Using the Request Inspector

Alongside our errors in the App Monitor, there is a Request Inspector that let us see the requests that triggered the recorded error.

This Request Inspector is also used elsewhere: for instance, when we view the logs for a particular call or SMS from the Logs page in the navigation bar, we'll also have access to this powerful tool.

The Request Inspector is a relatively new and late addition to Twilio, but is one that makes debugging our applications so much easier by letting us not only view all of the details of requests Twilio made to our application, but also letting us retry them in one click.

Note

All of the data in the Request Inspector is also accessible via the Notifications API; refer to Twilio's documentation at https://www.twilio.com/docs/api/rest/notification for details.

At first, Twilio shows you the HTTP method used for the request, the URL that was requested, the time of the request, and the HTTP status that came back:

However, we can expand this to...