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SE Radio 563: David Cramer on Error Tracking

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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How Century Knows Things About an Application Without Manual Configuration

century knows literally everything because an error object in each language has all these attributes with it. On the performance side, we use a combination of leveraging some like open source, I guess, implementations like open telemetry where it's got all this instrumentation already and we can just soak that in. And so for Python, for example, you plug it into an application will capture things like the error, error object, which is like exception class name, exception value,. So we'll give you a stack trace file name, line number, all those normal things function name. We'll also collect source code. The goal should always be no input. Like we ask the user to do anything whatsoever.

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