Python for Entrepreneurs Transcripts
Chapter: Monitoring and logging in production
Lecture: Setting up notifications in Rollbar
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So it was really cool that we went to Rollbar and we saw the error message
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but how do we get notified? I mean, this is better than logging by a long shot but it's not as good as I said it could be.
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Well, you have a little bit more configuration to do for that. So, let's go over here and look at my email, check this out, in my email,
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just five minutes ago I got pretty much what we got in our dashboard, so bam, an error has occurred, Python For Entrepreneurs Course in dev mode,
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here is the error, and this just shows you the trace back of all the various things that I showed you when we looked around, OK.
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So that's really great. But, there is more options OK, so let's go over here,
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click on settings for the project and go to make sure you have source control integrated,
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so you can get extra information, but notifications, that's where we want to go,
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so right now we have email, and we could connect this to Bitbucket issues or if you are using Campfire or create GitHub issues automatically from this,
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all of those are awesome, I'll just scroll through, we got Jira, we've got Slack,
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we've got Trello, you can sort of break out of the box and do web hooks, all you want, I am going to integrate this with Slack.
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OK, so we come down here, I have already authorized Slack and I am going to say enable Slack integration, it says cool I am going to use this
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and where is it going to go, I am going to post to a runtime, so we are going to post all he errors to runtime, save those settings,
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and then if we come down here you can see on a tenth error, tenth time error occurrs, we could sent that and it's an error not a message,
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when there is a deployment, and how do we know like if something gets reactivated or whatever, we are going to get all of these sent.
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But if for some reason I don't want to know when an item is reopened, I could just delete that, right. OK, so let's go cause that error again.
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Here it is, and if I hit it again, it's going to happen again, actually let me just make a different error
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so you can see what it looks like the first time. It's going to be a ValueError, and this is going to trigger it, here we go,
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sign in again and "Ka Boom!", ValueError. OK, now notice, I got a little pop up already right there, now it depends on
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how your Slack is set up, if it pops up like an actual notification,
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or it just says "hey, there is something going on, look at this, red thing Rollbar",
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nice message, there has been an error in dev, a new ValueError, kaboom,
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there is some of your notifications, right, and if you have the Slack app installed for your phone and you turn on notifications for this channel,
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you can create a special runtime channel or something, right, and then you will get those notifications popping up on your phone, straight away,
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so again, we can just click here and let's use Chrome because that is where it's authenticated against, and we'll pull it up, and there it is,
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"Ka Boom", ValueError in all the stuff that you would expect to see. So, that is how you set up the notification side, so don't forget to do that
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because that is where some of the biggest value for what you have in Rollbar is, the fact that you get notified straight away.
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Final thing to notice is we have a dev section here, if we go over to settings, you can see here we have environments dev, there could be test,
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there could be production, you can hide the notifications and messages
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from various things, so you can come over here and say "I don't want to see dev errors",
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I only want to see production errors, or production and staging, whatever, right, but you probably don't want to leave this on,
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because you will get freaked out - "oh my gosh there is something wrong with the website",
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no, actually, it's just somebody doing some development and they are not done. Something like that. So that is how you add Rollbar to a Pyramid app.
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I have this running in all of my Pyramid apps, and it has saved me more than once.