Receive email when script produces an error

[kjvowen]

I encountered an issue yesterday where the server that produces the ical feed went down and I did not realize it until I happened to notice that the events I expected to be on my calendar were not there (and someone double-booked me). Looking back at the execution logs, I could see the error (and forwarded the information to our IT department to look into), but it would be nice if there was an option to have error messages like these sent to the email address specified in the script. In this case, the error was in the callWithBackoff function, but there are a variety of error messages throughout the script that probably would be useful to know about.

Aug 4, 2021, 6:03:21 PM Info Error, Retrying...Exception: Request failed for [REDACTED] returned code 500. Truncated server response:

<title>The wait operation timed out</title>

[derekantrican]

Typically Google will send you an email the next day for all the previous day's failures. You can change this to happen immediately, though, by going to the trigger page, editing the trigger, and choosing "Notify me immediately".

Please let me know if you have questions about finding that page

[kjvowen]

Derek, Thanks for your reply. I think in this case I did not get an email because the script itself doesn't end in an error (perhaps only unhandled errors end in this manner?). Many of the errors, including this one, are caught (and usually logged), and then the script continues and ends "successfully", so google does not notify me. The error rate is 0%, despite continuously failing (every 30 min) to connect to the server from 1 pm Aug 3rd to 6:30 pm Aug 4th. [image: image.png] The final line from each execution log is always Sync finished. [image: image.png]

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-Kevin

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[derekantrican]

I see. Yes, this would be for unhandled errors.