In highlight.io, you can search for a errors using different attributes on the error group and error instance. The instance is a specific occurance of an error that occurred. Based on the error event, stacktrace, and other attributes, instances are organized into groups. These groups are returned by the search on the Errors search page.

Searching for errors

For general information on searching errors, check out our Search docs.

Default key

The default key for error search is event. If you enter an expression without a key (undefined variable) it will be used as the key for the expression (event="*undefined variable*").

To search for a error event, simply type the text of the message. Given the following error:

sql: statement is closed

We can find this error by typing sql: statement is closed.

Error Instance Search

The error instances of a specific group and be searched as well. By clicking the "See all instances" button, you can search across instances to get more information on different occurrences of the error group.

Autoinjected attributes

Errors can be searched by the following attributes:

Helpful Tips

Use contains, =**, and matches =// operators when searching by visited_url to avoid being too limited by query params. See Searching by Visited URL for more information.