Independent Study Spring 2019/Errbit

Set up an open-source error monitoring tool instead of Airbrake

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Errbit

Purpose

Errbit has been set-up, replacing the already existing Airbrake API to serve several purposes like :

• Errbit is a much more powerful monitoring tool
• Errbit is Airbrake API compliant
• Store unresolved errors indefinitely without any extra cost.

The Steps taken for the setup

There were several steps taken to set-up Errbit for Expertiza and schedule it to automatically pull changed from its forked branch and deploy:

Setup Heroku

• Made an account with Email: expertiza-support@lists.ncsu.edu and Password: expertiza2019@

Setup Errbit

• Fork Errbit from https://github.com/errbit/errbit and follow the steps mentioned on README.md
• When we run rake errbit:bootsrap or rake db:seed it will create an admin user with a random password. We can see these login credential in the console log. But instead, we can provide this username and password explicitly by just making some changes in errbit/db/seed.rb file.

Deploy Errbit on Heroku

• Created a new empty application on Heroku, named errbit-expertiza2019
• The app will have an associated empty git repository https://git.heroku.com/errbit-expertiza2019.git

Took the following steps in the /errbit repository on local machine:

• Login to Heroku using Herkou CLI from console using `heroku login`
• Added remote using `heroku git:remote -a errbit-expertiza2019`

  heroku addons:add mongolab:sandbox 

  heroku addons:add sendgrid:starter 

  heroku config:add HEROKU=true 

  git add . 

  git commit -m “new creds” 

  git push heroku master 

Configure Expertiza to point to our deployed Errbit application

• Create a new app on Errbit
• Copy it's configuration and place it in the expertiza/config/initializers/airbrake.rb file.

  Airbrake.configure do |config|
 config.host = 'https://errbit-expertiza2019.herokuapp.com'
 config.project_id = 1 # required, but any positive integer works
 config.project_key = '64ed97f0c8e628acefb3a7f63308a11c'
 # Uncomment for Rails apps
  config.environment = Rails.env
  config.ignore_environments = %w(test)
 end

Set up Cron job to regularly pull changes from Forked repository and deploy on Heroku.