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Overview
Front-end errors are collected with Browser SDK. The error message and stack trace are included when available.
Error sources
Front-end errors come from several different sources:
source: From unhandled exceptions or unhandled promise rejections in the source code
Error attributes
For information about the default attributes for all event types, see Data Collected. For information about configuring for sampling or global context see Modifying Data and Context.
Attribute
Type
Description
error.source
string
Where the error originates from (for example, console).
error.type
string
The error type (or error code in some cases).
error.message
string
A concise, human-readable, one-line message explaining the event.
error.stack
string
The stack trace or complementary information about the error.
Source errors
Source errors include code-level information about the error. More information about the different error types can be found in the MDN documentation.
Attribute
Type
Description
error.type
string
The error type (or error code in some cases).
Collect errors manually
Monitor handled exceptions, handled promise rejections, and other errors not tracked automatically by the Browser SDK with the addError() API:
addError(error:unknown,context?:Context);
Note: Error Tracking processes errors that are sent with the source set to custom, source or report, and contain a stack trace. Errors sent with any other source (such as console) or sent from browser extensions are not processed by Error Tracking.
import{datadogRum}from'@datadog/browser-rum';// Send a custom error with context
consterror=newError('Something wrong occurred.');datadogRum.addError(error,{pageStatus:'beta',});// Send a network error
fetch('<SOME_URL>').catch(function(error){datadogRum.addError(error);})// Send a handled exception error
try{//Some code logic
}catch(error){datadogRum.addError(error);}
// Send a custom error with context
consterror=newError('Something wrong occurred.');window.DD_RUM.onReady(function(){window.DD_RUM.addError(error,{pageStatus:'beta',});});// Send a network error
fetch('<SOME_URL>').catch(function(error){window.DD_RUM.onReady(function(){window.DD_RUM.addError(error);});})// Send a handled exception error
try{//Some code logic
}catch(error){window.DD_RUM.onReady(function(){window.DD_RUM.addError(error);})}
// Send a custom error with context
consterror=newError('Something wrong occurred.');window.DD_RUM&&window.DD_RUM.addError(error,{pageStatus:'beta',});// Send a network error
fetch('<SOME_URL>').catch(function(error){window.DD_RUM&&window.DD_RUM.addError(error);})// Send a handled exception error
try{//Some code logic
}catch(error){window.DD_RUM&&window.DD_RUM.addError(error);}
React error boundaries instrumentation
You can instrument the React error boundaries to monitor React rendering errors using the RUM Browser SDK addError() API.
The collected rendering errors contain a component stack, which is unminified like any other error stack traces after you upload sourcemaps.
To instrument React error boundaries for monitoring, use the following:
For security reasons, browsers hide details from errors triggered by cross-origin scripts. When this happens, the Error Details tab shows an error with the minimal message “Script error.”
For more information about cross-origin scripts and why details are hidden, see CORS and this Note on Global Event Handlers. Some possible reasons for this error include:
Your JavaScript files are hosted on a different hostname (for instance, example.com includes assets from static.example.com).
Your website includes JavaScript libraries hosted on a CDN.
Your website includes third-party JavaScript libraries hosted on the provider’s servers.
Get visibility into cross-origin scripts by following these two steps:
With crossorigin="anonymous", the request to fetch the script is performed securely. No sensitive data is forwarded through cookies or HTTP authentication.
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * to allow all origins to fetch the resource.
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: example.com to specify a single allowed origin. If the server supports clients from multiple origins, it must return the origin for the specific client making the request.