If I want to catch all my exceptions and log them to bugsnag, or Datadog, where is the best place to...

# ktor

[spierce7]

If I want to catch all my exceptions and log them to bugsnag, or Datadog, where is the best place to do that? I was considering the StatusPages plugin, using the Throwable catch all.

install(StatusPages) {
            exception<Throwable> {
                call.respond(HttpStatusCode.InternalServerError)
            }
        }

[Rescribet]

We used this as well, but it doesn’t catch exceptions in plugins (the classical API at least, don’t know what happens with the new createApplicationPlugin API)

[Rustam Siniukov]

@Rescribet Can you create tickets for such plugins? It’s not an expected behaviour

[Rescribet]

@Rustam Siniukov Yes, I’ll see if I can make a repro first

[spierce7]

@Rustam Siniukov So the approach I’m taking should be fine then?

[Rustam Siniukov]

Yes, it should work. Otherwise, please file a bug

[Rescribet]

@Rustam Siniukov The 2.0.0-beta-1 StatusPages does catch plugin exceptions, but doesn’t prevent later handlers from being called. Which can lead to unexpected behaviour.

We currently do a manual check to see StatusPages was activated to work around this:

if (call.attributes.contains(AttributeKey<Unit>("StatusPagesTriggered"))) {
  return@get
}

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KTOR-3707

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

@Rescribet thank you. I confirm that it's a bug.