@airbrake/node

Official Airbrake Notifier for Node.js

The official Airbrake notifier for capturing JavaScript errors in Node.js and reporting them to Airbrake. If you're looking for Node.js support there is a separate package.

Installation

Using yarn:

yarn add @airbrake/node

Using npm:

npm install @airbrake/node

Basic Usage

First, initialize the notifier with the project ID and API key taken from Airbrake:

const { Notifier } = require('@airbrake/node');

const airbrake = new Notifier({
  projectId: 1,
  projectKey: 'REPLACE_ME',
  environment: 'production',
});

Then, you can send a textual message to Airbrake:

let promise = airbrake.notify(`user id=${user_id} not found`);
promise.then((notice) => {
  if (notice.id) {
    console.log('notice id', notice.id);
  } else {
    console.log('notify failed', notice.error);
  }
});

or report errors directly:

try {
  new Error('Hello from Airbrake!');
} catch(err) {
  airbrake.notify(err);
  throw err;
}

Alternatively, you can wrap any code which may throw errors using the wrap method:

let startApp = () => {
  new Error('Hello from Airbrake!');
};
startApp = airbrake.wrap(startApp);

// Any exceptions thrown in startApp will be reported to Airbrake.
startApp();

or use the call shortcut:

let startApp = () => {
  new Error('Hello from Airbrake!');
};

airbrake.call(startApp);

Example configurations

• Express
• Node.js

Advanced Usage

Notice Annotations

It's possible to annotate error notices with all sorts of useful information at the time they're captured by supplying it in the object being reported.

try {
  startApp();
} catch(err) {
  airbrake.notify({
    error: err,
    context: { component: 'bootstrap' },
    environment: { env1: 'value' },
    params: { param1: 'value' },
    session: { session1: 'value' },
  });
  throw err;
}

Severity

Severity allows categorizing how severe an error is. By default, it's set to error. To redefine severity, simply overwrite context/severity of a notice object:

airbrake.notify({
  error: err,
  context: { severity: 'warning' }
});

Filtering errors

There may be some errors thrown in your application that you're not interested in sending to Airbrake, such as errors thrown by 3rd-party libraries.

The Airbrake notifier makes it simple to ignore this chaff while still processing legitimate errors. Add filters to the notifier by providing filter functions to addFilter.

addFilter accepts the entire error notice to be sent to Airbrake and provides access to the context, environment, params, and session properties. It also includes the single-element errors array with its backtrace property and associated backtrace lines.

The return value of the filter function determines whether or not the error notice will be submitted.

• If null is returned, the notice is ignored.
• Otherwise, the returned notice will be submitted.

An error notice must pass all provided filters to be submitted.

In the following example all errors triggered by admins will be ignored:

airbrake.addFilter((notice) => {
  if (notice.params.admin) {
    // Ignore errors from admin sessions.
    return null;
  }
  return notice;
});

Filters can be also used to modify notice payload, e.g. to set the environment and application version:

airbrake.addFilter((notice) => {
  notice.context.environment = 'production';
  notice.context.version = '1.2.3';
  return notice;
});

Filtering keys

With the keysBlacklist option, you can specify a list of keys containing sensitive information that must be filtered out:

const airbrake = new Notifier({
    // ...
    keysBlacklist: [
      'password', // exact match
      /secret/, // regexp match
    ],
});

Node.js request and proxy

To use the request HTTP client, pass the request option which accepts a request wrapper:

const airbrake = new Notifier({
  // ...
  request: request.defaults({'proxy':'http://localproxy.com'})
});

Instrumentation

@airbrake/node attempts to automatically instrument various performance metrics. You can disable that behavior using the performanceStats option:

const airbrake = new Notifier({
  // ...
  performanceStats: false
});

Changelog

[1.1.2] (May 5, 2020)

Fixed

• [browser] Add guard for window being undefined (#684)
• [node] Report URL using req.originalUrl instead of req.path in Express apps (#691)