It is critical for your system’s health to consistently monitor the errors collected by Datadog. When there are many individual error events, it becomes hard to prioritize errors for troubleshooting. By tracking, triaging, and debugging stack traces, you can minimize the impact of fatal errors on your backend services.
Once you have set up APM for Backend Services error tracking, the issue list populates with cards. Navigate to APM > Error Tracking to view open, ignored, or all issues, sort issues by volume or age, and filter issues by all custom and default facets on your backend services.
Error Tracking enables you to:
The Datadog tracers collect errors through integrations and the manual instrumentation of your backend services’ source code. Error spans within a trace are processed by Error Tracking if the error is located in a service entry span (the uppermost service span). This span must also contain the error.stack, error.message, and error.type span tags to be tracked.
Error Tracking computes a fingerprint for each error span it processes using the error type, the error message, and the frames that form the stack trace. Errors with the same fingerprint are grouped together and belong to the same issue. For more information, see the Trace Explorer documentation.
Error Tracking automatically categorizes errors into issues collected from your backend services in the Error Tracking Explorer.
Click on an issue to see a summary of the error, the distribution of impacted spans, the latest most relevant stack trace, span tags, host tags, container tags, and metrics.
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