I’ve noticed the default setup for PHP Exceptions is pretty bland, and I’m trying to improve that, but it seems quite… hard. How can I improve the default reports changing the settings?
- Many of the tags displayed are pretty much useless:
- how can it tell me the
browseris “Other” if there’s a clear User-Agent header on the request? -
deviceandosare also useless - I would like to remove those as they don’t make much sense in a browser environment… unless Sentry sniffs out the correct values from the UA - what it seems it can’t do right now. -
loggerdoesn’t seem to be useful at all, but it seems important, so I didn’t try to override, even though the documentation doesn’t explain what that is. - finally, I can’t quite “override” the default value for tags; in the end, setting a
browsertag in the setup creates a report with two tags, one with what I wrote and another one with “Other” - this one seems to be coming from the reporting context? But then, how could the context force in a “default” value that’s actually empty (other has no real meaning, it’s just a placeholder word).
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It’s hard to debug requests as it’s only storing headers and URL. Where are my POST fields, the request body? I tried to manually add that through
send_callbackbut it made no difference, the Exception details are still the same - even the raw payload Sentry received for those with altered callback seems to be the same.
I noticed the Ruby SDK includes details on how to enable/disable POST payload, but that doesn’t seem to exist on the PHP SDK. -
Finally, would be dat more useful if the rest of the exception fields were shown as well. I can’t see the exception code, nor other fields from the object - those fields are used in my application to display error details. Sentry should store some sort of serialized version of the Exception, at least, instead of simply the stack trace and its title.
This is how I’m configuring Sentry right now:
/** @var bool $call_existing This defines if Raven/Sentry should call the original handlers after errors reporting */
$call_existing = true;
$raven = (new Raven_Client('https://**:**@sentry.io/12345', [
'release' => trim(`git rev-parse --short HEAD`),
'environment' => APPLICATION_ENV,
'app_path' => APPLICATION_PATH,
'prefixes' => [dirname(APPLICATION_PATH)],
//most of the shown tags are useless, so I'm trying to override them here
'tags' => [
'browser' => $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] ?? 'Unknown',
'device' => 'none',
'os' => 'none'
],
//the request details only include URL and Headers, so I'm trying to add body and POST fields
'send_callback' => function(array &$data) {
$data['request']['body'] = file_get_contents('php://input');
if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST') {
$data['request']['fields'] = $_POST;
}
return $data;
}
]));
$handler = (new Raven_ErrorHandler($raven))
->registerExceptionHandler($call_existing)
->registerErrorHandler($call_existing)
->registerShutdownFunction();
