[Feature] Error Tracking via logs about dd-trace-php HOT 5 OPEN

Hi @TheLevti 👋

Thanks for opening this feature request!

On my sandbox, I've tried the following:

1. Sending a sample exception

try {
    // ...
} catch (\Exception $e) {
    Log::error('An error occurred', [
        'error.message' => $e->getMessage(),
        'error.kind' => get_class($e),
        'error.stack' => $e->getTraceAsString(),
    ]);
}

Nota Bene: Monolog with JSON formatting

2. Adding the necessary remapping pipelines

The above currently adds the error information under the context array; hence, the pipeline would need to be enhanced with three remappers, remapping each of these context.error.X to error.X

Result

With the two above steps being done, I can get my errors in error tracking, as shown by the screenshots below:

To ensure that Error Tracking can capture errors in your PHP code, we can add three remappers to the default PHP pipeline. However, while we work on implementing this, you may add these remappers to your pipeline on your end as well. This will prevent you from waiting for us to add them to our backend.

Please let me know if this aligns with your requirements or if I have misunderstood your request.

Thank you for your collaboration!

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Great! I was attempting something similar, instead I added a datadog processor that would populate those fields in the extras array to not pollute the given context from the application (if context.exception is provided of course).

What I did not do is adding remapping settings, but instead added my own custom JsonFormatter that would move the error array out of extras into the root. So it should have also worked, or?

I will try to do how you did it.

Would be nice if the default php remappers can check both, the extras and context array. Thank you for the hints, will let you know if it worked.

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