INVALID_ARGUMENT (400 error) when calling Stackdriver Error Reporting API

Question

When trying to invoke the Stackdriver Error Reporting API (via the API explorer or via the Client-Side JavaScript library), I receive the following error:

Request:

{ "message" : "test" }

Response:

{
  "error": {
    "code": 400,
    "message": "Request contains an invalid argument.",
    "status": "INVALID_ARGUMENT"
  }
}

The Stackdriver Error Reporting API is enabled and I have Owner rights to the App Engine project.

Is the API simply not functional? If I'm doing something wrong, can someone try to help?

Kirk Kelsey Kirk Kelsey · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-04T13:46:23

The documentation for reporting events says that a ServiceContext is required.

If you're only sending a message (not a stacktrace / exception) you'll need to include a context with a reportLocation as well. This is noted in the documentation of the message field, but it's not obvious.

The following works from the API explorer:

{
 "context": {
  "reportLocation": {
   "functionName": "My Function"
  }
 },
 "message": "error message",
 "serviceContext": {
  "service": "My Microservice",
 }
}

You might be interested in the docs on How Error are Grouped too.

FWIW, I work on this product and I think the error message is too generic. The problem is (?) that the serving stack scrubs the message unless they're annotated as being for public consumption. I'll chase that down.

INVALID_ARGUMENT (400 error) when calling Stackdriver Error Reporting API

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