Report errors (1st gen)

Automatically reporting errors

You can emit an error from a function to Error Reporting as shown below:

// These WILL be reported to Error Reporting
throw new Error('I failed you'); // Will cause a cold start if not caught

If you would like more fine-grained error reporting, you can use the Error Reporting client libraries.

You can view the reported errors in Error Reporting in the Google Cloud console. You can also see the errors reported from a particular function when you select it from the list of functions in the Google Cloud console.

Uncaught exceptions produced by your function will appear in Error Reporting. Note that some types of uncaught exceptions (such as those thrown asynchronously) will cause a cold start to occur upon a future function invocation. This increases the amount of time your function will take to run.

Manually reporting errors

Importing dependencies

To report an error to Error Reporting from a function, import the error function from the Cloud Functions logger SDK:

// All available logging functions
const {
  log,
  info,
  debug,
  warn,
  error,
  write,
} = require("firebase-functions/logger");
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Sending to Cloud Logging

The error function from the Cloud Functions logger SDK will report errors to both Cloud Logging and Error Reporting. To include more context from the error as structured data, pass an error object as the second argument:

 } catch (err) {
  // Attach an error object as the second argument
  error("Unable to read quote from Firestore, sending default instead",
      err);
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