Method to track recoverable exceptions in sentry

This adds a method to track errors that can be recovered from in
sentry.

It is useful when debugging performance issues, or exceptions that are
hard to reproduce.

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/gitlab/sentry.rb b/lib/gitlab/sentry.rb
index 4a22fc80f75..6381e94c1d2 100644
--- a/lib/gitlab/sentry.rb
+++ b/lib/gitlab/sentry.rb
@@ -18,6 +18,25 @@ module Gitlab
       end
     end
 
+    # This can be used for investigating exceptions that can be recovered from in
+    # code. The exception will still be raised in development and test
+    # environments.
+    #
+    # That way we can track down these exceptions with as much information as we
+    # need to resolve them.
+    #
+    # Provide an issue URL for follow up.
+    def self.track_exception(exception, issue_url: nil, extra: {})
+      if enabled?
+        extra[:issue_url] = issue_url if issue_url
+        context # Make sure we've set everything we know in the context
+
+        Raven.capture_exception(exception, extra: extra)
+      end
+
+      raise exception if should_raise?
+    end
+
     def self.program_context
       if Sidekiq.server?
         'sidekiq'
@@ -25,5 +44,9 @@ module Gitlab
         'rails'
       end
     end
+
+    def self.should_raise?
+      Rails.env.development? || Rails.env.test?
+    end
   end
 end