Error Reporting API
Error Reporting API
Google Cloud Error Reporting API auto-aggregates and analyzes app errors — extracts from logs, groups by stack trace, sends alerts.
Auto-extracts errors from Cloud Logging — no instrumentation needed
Errors only — does not replace a full APM like Sentry
When app errors are collected by Cloud Logging, Error Reporting auto-detects and aggregates. Manual reporting: POST /v1beta1/{projectName}/events:report.
Uptime · 30-day window
About this API
Error Reporting is GCP's lightweight error-tracking service — similar to Sentry/Rollbar but simpler and natively integrated with GCP. Core mechanism: "find log entries containing stack traces in Cloud Logging, aggregate by stack similarity, count frequency". Errors from apps on GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, App Engine are auto-detected (just emit stack-trace-containing output to stderr) — no instrumentation code required. Feature-wise less complete than Sentry (no release tracking, user context, performance traces), but adequate for "quickly see top errors, are they new". Free tier is also generous. Cost-effective error monitoring for budget-constrained small teams.
What you can build
- 1Production error monitoring
- 2Daily error review for the team
- 3Slack/PagerDuty integration for error alerts
- 4Error trend analysis
Strengths & limitations
Strengths
- Auto-extracts errors from Cloud Logging — no instrumentation needed
- Smart aggregation by stack trace
- Direct source-code links (if deployed via Cloud Source)
Limitations
- Errors only — does not replace a full APM like Sentry
- Aggregation may be imperfect for complex stacks
Example request
curl https://google.com/<endpoint>Getting started
When app errors are collected by Cloud Logging, Error Reporting auto-detects and aggregates. Manual reporting: POST /v1beta1/{projectName}/events:report.
FAQ
Can it replace Sentry?+
For basic scenarios, yes. Sentry has release tracking, user context, performance monitoring, custom events — better for deeper scenarios.
How do I report errors from code proactively?+
Use the official SDK (e.g. @google-cloud/error-reporting) and call reportError().
Technical details
- Auth type
- unknown
- Pricing
- unknown
- Protocols
- REST
- SDKs
- python, javascript, go, java, csharp, php, ruby
- Response time
- 42 ms
- Last health check
- 5/12/2026, 7:37:30 AM
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