DataDog api - sending a stack trace

Question

Im replacing our existing NewRelic java support code with DataDog and am wondering about sending error messages. NewRelic has the .noticeEvent() call. The DDog library Im using has a .recordEvent() but doesn't seem to have a way to send a stack trace.

Anyone been down this road before? I can send text via the above but I need a bit more info.

Answer 1

I am not familiar with the products and libraries that you are using, but there is an open source library MgntUtils that can extract full or filtered stacktrace from exception as a String. Since you mentioned that you can pass the text (ie String) this library may help you. Here are the links to MgntUtils library:

1. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-source-java-library-some-useful-utilities-michael-gantman?trk=pulse_spock-articles Detailed article that explains what utilities are available in MgntUtils library and how to use them
2. http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Cmichaelgantman - Here you can get it as Maven resource (also library, source and Javadoc available as a separate resource)
3. Github: https://github.com/michaelgantman/Mgnt - Here you can get this library as a git project as well as Jars for library itself, sources and javadoc (each in separate jar)

I hope this helps