Issue States in Error Tracking

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Overview

All issues in Error Tracking have a status to help you triage and prioritize issues or dismiss noise. There are four statuses:

FOR REVIEW: Ongoing and in need of attention because the issue is new or it’s a regression.
REVIEWED: Triaged and needs to be fixed, either now or later.
IGNORED: Requiring no additional investigation or action.
RESOLVED: Fixed and no longer occurring.

All issues start with a FOR REVIEW status. Error Tracking automatically updates the status in the cases described below, or you can manually update the status. You can also view the history of a given error’s state changes.

The diagram below shows how the Error Tracking states are updated automatically and manually:

Automatic review

Error Tracking automatically marks issues as REVIEWED if one of the following actions has been taken:

The issue has been assigned
A case has been created from the issue

Automatic resolution

Error Tracking automatically marks issues as RESOLVED that appear to be inactive or resolved due to a lack of recent error occurrences:

If the issue was last reported in a version that is more than 14 days old, and a newer version has been released but does not report the same error, Error Tracking automatically resolves the issue. Configure your services with version tags (see instructions for APM, RUM, and Logs) to ensure that automatic resolution accounts for versions of your services.
If version tags are not set up, Error Tracking automatically resolves an issue if there have been no new errors reported for that issue within the last 14 days.

Automatic re-opening through regression detection

See Regression Detection.

Updating the issue status

The issue status appears anywhere the issue can be viewed, such as in the issues list or on the details panel for a given issue. To manually update the status of an issue, click the status and choose a different one in the dropdown menu.

The Activity Timeline in the Error Tracking Issue

Issue history

View a history of your issue activity with the Activity Timeline. On the details panel of any Error Tracking issue, view the Activity Timeline by clicking the Activity tab.