Jerrbit

Report client-side, browser events and exceptions to an Errbit or Airbrake service

Usage

var Client = require('jerrbit').Client;
 
var errbitClient = new Client({
  host: 'http://errbit.your-service.com',
  projectKey: 'ProjectAPIKey',
  context: {
    environment: 'production'
  }
});
 
try {
  // Your application code here
 
} catch(error){
  errbitClient.notify(error, {
    context: {
      version: '1.1.1'
    }
  });
 
  throw(error);
}

Options

Jerrbit.Client requires the following options to configure which Errbit server to use.

• host: The URL of the Errbit server
• projectKey: The API key for the project you wish log the errors against

Airbrake Options

Jerrbit supports all of the Airbrake V3 API properties and sets a lot of them for you, but all values can be overwritten if you need.

Field	Required	Supplied by Errbit	Default value is set in	Description
errors	Yes	Yes	notify	An array of objects describing the error that occurred.
errors/{i}/type	Yes	Yes	notify	The class name or type of error that occurred.
errors/{i}/message	No	Yes	notify	A short message describing the error that occurred.
errors/{i}/backtrace	Yes	Yes	notify	An array of objects describing each line of the error’s backtrace.
errors/{i}/backtrace/{i}/file	Yes	Yes	notify	The full path of the file in this entry of the backtrace.
errors/{i}/backtrace/{i}/line	No	Yes	notify	The file’s line number in this entry of the backtrace.
errors/{i}/backtrace/{i}/column	No	Yes	notify	The line’s column number in this entry of the backtrace.
errors/{i}/backtrace/{i}/function	No	Yes	notify	When available, the function or method name in this entry of the backtrace.
context	No	No	NA	An object describing additional context for this error.
context/notifier	Yes	Yes	N/A	An object describing the notifier client library.
context/notifier/name	Yes	Yes	new	The name of the notifier client submitting the request, e.g. “airbrake-js”.
context/notifier/version	Yes	Yes	new	The version number of the notifier client submitting the request, e.g. “1.2.3”.
context/notifier/url	Yes	Yes	new	A URL at which more information can be obtained concerning the notifier client.
context/environment	No	'development'	new	The name of the server environment in which the error occurred, e.g. “staging”, “production”, etc.
context/component	No	No	N/A	The component or module in which the error occurred. In MVC frameworks like Rails, this should be set to the controller. Otherwise, this can be set to a route or other request category.
context/action	No	No	N/A	The action in which the error occurred. If each request is routed to a controller action, this should be set here. Otherwise, this can be set to a method or other request subcategory.
context/os	No	Yes	new	Details of the operating system on which the error occurred.
context/language	No	'JavaScript'	new	Describe the language on which the error occurred, e.g. “Ruby 2.1.1”.
context/version	No	No		Describe the application version, e.g. “v1.2.3”.
context/url	No	Yes	notify	The application’s URL.
context/userAgent	No	Yes	new	The requesting browser’s full user-agent string.
context/rootDirectory	No	No	N/A	The application’s root directory path.
context/user/id	No	No	N/A	If applicable, the current user’s ID.
context/user/name	No	No	N/A	If applicable, the current user’s username.
context/user/email	No	No	N/A	If applicable, the current user’s email address.
environment	No	No	N/A	An object containing the current environment variables. Where the key is the variable name, e.g. { "PORT": "443", "CODE_NAME": "gorilla" }.
session	No	Yes	notify	An object containing the current session variables. Where the key is the variable name, e.g. { "basket_total": "1234", "user_id": "123" }.
params	No	Yes	notify	An object containing the request parameters. Where the key is the parameter name, e.g. { "page": "3", "sort": "desc" }.

Overwriting the default context values

You can overwrite the default values by either specifying them when instantiating Client or when calling notify. Values that are not expected to change over the course of your application should be specified when instantiating Client.

var errbitClient = new Client({
  host: 'http://errbit.your-service.com',
  projectKey: 'ProjectAPIKey',
  context: {
    environment: 'production',
    language: 'JavaScript & XML'
  }
});

Those values that can change should be set using notify. These values must be specified each time notify is called or they may be overwritten with the default values.

errbitClient.notify(error, {
  context: {
    user: window.user
  }
});