Agent status should show a full traceback for errors

[conorbranagan]

Seems like this would be useful for debugging on our end instead of seeing an error like:

Example case, if someone has an error like this in their status:

 tomcat
    ------
      - instance #0 [ERROR]: ValueError('No JSON object could be decoded',)
      - Collected 0 metrics & 0 events

they would still have to turn on debug_mode to actually figure out where the error is coming from.

thoughts @clutchski?

[olidb2]

+1 for full traceback, but only with a -v option
(so the overall status page remains uncluttered, while stating clearly "run
with -v for full tracebacks")

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Conor Branagan notifications@github.comwrote:

Seems like this would be useful for debugging on our end instead of seeing
an error like:

Example case, if someone has an error like this in their status:

tomcat
------
- instance #0 [ERROR]: ValueError('No JSON object could be decoded',)
- Collected 0 metrics & 0 events

they would still have to turn on debug_mode to actually figure out where
the error is coming from.

thoughts @clutchski https://github.com/clutchski?

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[conorbranagan]

@pcockwell You can take this one if you're looking for something to work on.

[pcockwell]

I'll see what I can do.