document ignore_errors

[biblicabeebli]

The old raven library had this functionality, implemented for Django by declaring a list of names of errors in the settings file.

This kind of functionality is necessary to control error reporting spam.

[eth3lbert]

There is a ignore_errors options.

[biblicabeebli]

Could you please link to the documentation for this feature? I have been finding the updated documentation for the new library frustratingly scant in its cross linkings, and laking in details that the older, mature raven library's documentation did contain.

[untitaker]

@biblicabeebli we will add this. I'll keep this issue open as reminder

[untitaker]

@biblicabeebli FWIW we decided not to stabilize ignore_errors for now, in the sense that you can still use it right now but we want to encourage people to use before_send for this instead: https://docs.sentry.io/learn/filtering/?platform=python#before-send

Concretely we eventually want to use the same syntax for ignore_errors that you can use in the project settings on sentry.io, such that it works the same everywhere.

[biblicabeebli]

I understand the urge to centralize an inherently scattered feature - integration with every framework/library requires a custom blob of code to extract the configuration correctly - but I strongly disagree with what sounds like a decision to drop probably the most basic necessary feature beyond "does it work" in an error reporting/monitoring framework.

Asking someone to write their own code to handle this particular issue is silly. This is an error reporting platform. The literal first thing we encountered was "oh, error X is garbage and for Capital-R Reasons we can't disable or squash it, but we don't want that particular one spamming us, how do I disable it..." This cannot possibly be an edge case.

The above should be sufficient reason to stabilize the feature, but if its not...

This is an error reporting and monitoring framework. If I can't block a thing at its source - because sometimes its just not possible to block a thing in the Sentry website's UI because it varies just slightly too much - then cannot use the service to monitor my servers. Too many false negatives. I'm going elsewhere.