Is there way to push NewRelic error manually?

Question

In our Rails app we rescue most of the exceptions on ApplicationController to give correct API response, but still want to track errors happening using ErrorCollector. Is there a way to manually send error to NewRelic?

Answer 1

Based on what I see in the New Relic agent code you can do

NewRelic::Agent.notice_error(exception, options)

I have tested this and have this running in my stack

Here's an example in a controller:

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  rescue_from ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid, with: :rescue_invalid_record

  private

  def rescue_invalid_record(exception)
    NewRelic::Agent.notice_error(exception)
  end
end

Answer 2

Not sure if it's recommended way to use, but this works perfectly:

NewRelic::Agent.agent.error_collector.notice_error( exception )

Answer 3

Full documentation of the API call to notice errors and increment the error metric is the New Relic Ruby Agent API documentation here http://rdoc.info/github/newrelic/rpm/NewRelic/Agent/Transaction.notice_error