GSP939

Overview

Cloud Error Reporting automatically groups application errors based on stack trace message patterns and shows the frequency of each error group. On opening an error group report, SREs can access the exact line of code in an application where the error occurred and navigate to the line of the source code on Google Cloud Source Repository.

In this lab, you explore leveraging Cloud Error Reporting to understand the error reports of an application and application issues.

Objectives

In this lab, you learn how to:

1. Explore Cloud Error Reporting error group reports to view details about errors.

2. Understand how to view errors and service errors.

3. Change the resolution status of a noticed error.

4. Link Errors to an issue tracker to triage to development teams.

Prerequisites

Familiarity with SRE principles and Cloud Operations tools made available by Google Cloud Platform

Setup and requirements

Before you click the Start Lab button

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This hands-on lab lets you do the lab activities yourself in a real cloud environment, not in a simulation or demo environment. It does so by giving you new, temporary credentials that you use to sign in and access Google Cloud for the duration of the lab.

To complete this lab, you need:

• Access to a standard internet browser (Chrome browser recommended).

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• Time to complete the lab---remember, once you start, you cannot pause a lab.

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How to start your lab and sign in to the Google Cloud Console

1. Click the Start Lab button. If you need to pay for the lab, a pop-up opens for you to select your payment method. On the left is the Lab Details panel with the following:

   • The Open Google Console button
   • Time remaining
   • The temporary credentials that you must use for this lab
   • Other information, if needed, to step through this lab

2. Click Open Google Console. The lab spins up resources, and then opens another tab that shows the Sign in page.

   Tip: Arrange the tabs in separate windows, side-by-side.

   Note: If you see the Choose an account dialog, click Use Another Account.

3. If necessary, copy the Username from the Lab Details panel and paste it into the Sign in dialog. Click Next.

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After a few moments, the Cloud Console opens in this tab.

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Activate Cloud Shell

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1. Click Activate Cloud Shell at the top of the Google Cloud console.

When you are connected, you are already authenticated, and the project is set to your PROJECT_ID. The output contains a line that declares the PROJECT_ID for this session:

Your Cloud Platform project in this session is set to YOUR_PROJECT_ID

gcloud is the command-line tool for Google Cloud. It comes pre-installed on Cloud Shell and supports tab-completion.

2. (Optional) You can list the active account name with this command:

gcloud auth list

3. Click Authorize.

4. Your output should now look like this:

Output:

ACTIVE: * ACCOUNT: student-01-xxxxxxxxxxxx@qwiklabs.net To set the active account, run: $ gcloud config set account `ACCOUNT`

5. (Optional) You can list the project ID with this command:

gcloud config list project

Output:

[core] project = <project_ID>

Example output:

[core] project = qwiklabs-gcp-44776a13dea667a6 Note: For full documentation of gcloud, in Google Cloud, refer to the gcloud CLI overview guide.

Error Reporting overview

Cloud Error Reporting (documentation) automatically groups errors depending on stack trace message patterns and shows the frequency of each error group. The error groups are generated automatically, based on stack traces.

On opening an error group report, operators can access to the exact line in the application code where the error occurred and reason about the cause by navigating to the line of the source code on Google Cloud Source Repository.

Task 1. Using Error Reporting

1. You can access Error Reporting by selecting Error Reporting from the Google Cloud navigation menu ().

Note: Error Reporting can also let you know when new errors are received; for more information, refer to Notifications for Error Reporting.

2. To get started, select any open error by clicking on the error in the Error field:

The Error Group Details screen shows you when the error has been occurring in the timeline and provides the stack trace that was captured with the error.

3. Scroll down to see samples of the error:

4. Open View Logs in another tab for one of the samples to see the log messages that match this particular error:

5. You can expand any of the messages that matches the filter to see the full stack trace:

6. Navigate back to Error reporting page, from the topbar click on the Open dropdown and select Acknowledged to change the resolution status of the error group manually.

Check if Error group was marked as Acknowledged

When you acknowledge an error group you can add a url to your issue tracker. Then you can go directly to your issue tracker from the error group.

7. Click on Link to issue and enter the following as a sample issue tracker url:

https://my-issue-tracker.com/my-first-issue Check if linked to issue tracker

Congratulations!

In this lab, you explored Cloud Error Reporting error group reports to view details about errors, understand how to view errors and service errors, change the resolution status of a noticed error, link Errors to an issue tracker to triage to development teams.

Finish your quest

This self-paced lab is part of the Google Cloud's Operations Suite on GKE, Cloud Architecture, and DevOps Essentials quests and the Measure Site Reliability using Cloud Operations Suite quests. A quest is a series of related labs that form a learning path. Completing a quest earns you a badge to recognize your achievement. You can make your badge or badges public and link to them in your online resume or social media account. Enroll in any quest that contains this lab and get immediate completion credit. Refer to the Google Cloud Skills Boost catalog for all available quests.

Take your next lab

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• Monitoring and Logging for Cloud Functions

Next steps

• Learn more about the Google Cloud Operations Suite.
• Practice and learn Cloud Operations on GCP with the Cloud Operations Sandbox.

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Manual Last Updated: February 09, 2023

Lab Last Tested: February 09, 2023

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