fix(event): adding env var to allow cutting exception data (#405)

* fix(event): adding environment variable to allow cutting exception data - frames part

* fix(lint): handle exception type specified

* fix(event): rename environment variable and add to readme

README.md

@@ -481,6 +481,8 @@ Advanced options can be configured as a parameter to the init() method or as env
 |-                       |DISABLE_EPSAGON_PATCH          |Boolean|`False`      |Disable the library patching (instrumentation)                                     |
 |-                       |EPSAGON_LAMBDA_TIMEOUT_THRESHOLD_MS          |Integer|`200`      |The threshold in millieseconds to send the trace before a Lambda timeout occurs                                     |
 |-                       |EPSAGON_PAYLOADS_TO_IGNORE     |List   |-            |Array of dictionaries to not instrument. Example: `'[{"source": "serverless-plugin-warmup"}]'` |
+|-                       |EPSAGON_REMOVE_EXCEPTION_FRAMES|Boolean|`False`      |Disable the automatic capture of exception frames data                             |
+
 
 
 ## Getting Help

epsagon/constants.py

@@ -42,6 +42,11 @@
 # List of ignored endpoints for web frameworks.
 IGNORED_ENDPOINTS = []
 
+# Indicates whether to skip collection of the exception frames part
+SHOULD_REMOVE_EXCEPTION_FRAMES = (
+    os.getenv('EPSAGON_REMOVE_EXCEPTION_FRAMES', 'false').lower() == 'true'
+)
+
 EPSAGON_MARKER = '__EPSAGON'
 EPSAGON_HEADER = 'epsagon-trace-id'
 # In some web frameworks, there is an automated capitalization

epsagon/event.py

@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@
 import inspect
 import uuid
 from .common import ErrorCode
+from .constants import (
+    SHOULD_REMOVE_EXCEPTION_FRAMES,
+)
 
 
 class BaseEvent(object):
@@ -152,19 +155,20 @@ def set_exception(
             traceback_data
         )
         self.exception['time'] = time.time()
-
+        # Check if to collect the frames
         # Adding python frames (input data of functions in stack) in python 3.
         # Ignoring filenames with /epsagon since they are ours.
-        if sys.version_info.major == 3:
-            self.exception['frames'] = {
-                '/'.join([
-                    frame.filename,
-                    frame.function,
-                    str(frame.lineno)
-                ]): frame.frame.f_locals
-                for frame in inspect.trace()
-                if '/epsagon' not in frame.filename and frame.frame.f_locals
-            }
+        if not SHOULD_REMOVE_EXCEPTION_FRAMES:
+            if sys.version_info.major == 3:
+                self.exception['frames'] = {
+                    '/'.join([
+                        frame.filename,
+                        frame.function,
+                        str(frame.lineno)
+                    ]): frame.frame.f_locals
+                    for frame in inspect.trace()
+                    if '/epsagon' not in frame.filename and frame.frame.f_locals
+                }
         self.exception.setdefault('additional_data', {})['handled'] = handled
         if from_logs:
             self.exception['additional_data']['from_logs'] = True