Reporting Errors

Use Honeybadger.notify(exception) to send any exception to Honeybadger. For example, to notify Honeybadger of a rescued exception without re-raising:

ruby
controller.rb

  

begin
  fail 'oops'
rescue => exception
  Honeybadger.notify(exception)
end

Reporting Errors Without an Exception

You can report any type of error to Honeybadger, not just exceptions. The simplest form is calling Honeybadger.notify with an error message:

ruby

Honeybadger.notify("Something is wrong here")

The error's class name will default to "Notice", and a backtrace will be generated for you from the location in your code where Honeybadger.notify was called.

Passing Additional Options to `Honeybadger.notify`

In some cases you will want to override the defaults or add additional information to your error reports. To do so, you can pass a second options Hash to Honeybadger.notify.

For example, building on the example in Reporting errors without an exception, you could override the default class name:

ruby

Honeybadger.notify("Something is wrong here", error_class: "MyError")

These are all the available options you can pass to Honeybadger.notify:

Option name	Description	Default value
`:error_message`	The `String` error message.	`nil`
`:error_class`	The `String` class name of the error.	`"Notice"`
`:backtrace`	The `Array` backtrace of the error.	`caller`
`:fingerprint`	The `String` grouping fingerprint of the exception.	`nil`
`:force`	Always report the exception when `true`, even when ignored.	`false`
`:sync`	Send data synchronously (skips the worker) when `true`.	`false`
`:tags`	The `String` comma-separated list of tags.	`nil`
`:context`	The `Hash` context to associate with the exception.	`nil`
`:controller`	The `String` controller name (such as a Rails controller).	`nil`
`:action`	The `String` action name (such as a Rails controller action).	`nil`
`:parameters`	The `Hash` HTTP request paramaters.	`nil`
`:session`	The `Hash` HTTP request session.	`nil`
`:url`	The `String` HTTP request URL.	`nil`

Getting the Current Backtrace

There are two ways to get the current backtrace in Ruby:

Thread.current.backtrace returns the entire backtrace up to and including the current method.
caller returns the backtrace up to but NOT including the current method.

Either method can be passed to Honeybadger.notify using the backtrace option. Honeybadger sends the exception backtrace by default, or caller if there is no exception object available.

Reporting Errors