Manage error groups

This page explains how you can manage your error groups in Error Reporting.

Error events that are grouped together are usually very similar, so Error Reporting keeps only 1,000 samples and extrapolates the remaining information. To view all error events that are part of an error group, view the related logs with the Logs Explorer. For more information about error grouping, see How error events are grouped.

Before you begin

Make sure that you have at least one error group. For more information, see Collect error events by using Error Reporting.

To get the permissions that you need to manage errors, ask your administrator to grant you the Error Reporting User (roles/errorreporting.user) IAM role on your project. For more information about granting roles, see Manage access to projects, folders, and organizations.

You might also be able to get the required permissions through custom roles or other predefined roles.

Change resolution status

To record the status of your investigation into an error group, do the following:

In the Google Cloud console, go to the Error Reporting page:
Go to Error Reporting

You can also find this page by using the search bar.
On the error group that you want to update, click Open, and then select a resolution status. You can select any of the following values:
- Open: The default initial state of all error groups. The other states are set manually. You can revert an error group's status back to Open at any time.
- Acknowledged: A state for triaging error groups.
- Resolved: A state for indicating that an error group is fixed and no longer expected to occur. If an error group marked as Resolved later reoccurs, then Error Reporting changes the resolution status back to Open.
- Muted: A state for hiding an error group from your list. If an error event occurs in a muted error group, then the error event isn't isn't recorded and you aren't notified.

Add links to error groups

You can link error groups to pages such as issue trackers or documentation with resolution steps.

To add a link to an error group, click Set the link to an issue tracker for this error group, and then complete the dialog.
To edit the link on an error group, click Set the link to an issue tracker for this error group, and then complete the dialog.
To open the link for an error group, click Link to the issue tracker for this error group.

Set notifications

Error Reporting can notify you when new error events occur. It can also notify you when an error event occurs in an error group that has been marked Resolved. To learn more, and for instructions on setting notifications, see Configure and manage notifications.

Delete errors

You can delete all error events which are stored for the given Google Cloud project, and reset error-event counts to zero, using either the gcloud tool or the REST API.

gcloud

To delete all error events, run this command:

gcloud beta error-reporting events delete

REST API

To delete all error events, use the projects.deleteEvents method of the REST API.

If you subscribe to notifications for the Google Cloud project and delete error events for an error group that has a status of Resolved, then the error group resolution status changes back to Open. If a new error event occurs, then Error Reporting sends a notification.

If you delete error events when the status of the error group is Open or Acknowledged, then Error Reporting doesn't send a notification if new error events occur.