Is there a way to create errors in GCP Error Reporting without Error Reporting associating them together?

Question

Often GCP Error Reporting's groupings are helpful in making the tool coherent and allowing for quick identification of issues; however, sometimes I would like to make sure that Error Reporting creates a separate group for a specific error and does not group it together, for instance the failure of a system. Is it possible, through the ErrorReporting Node.js client (we are using Node.js Cloud Functions) or otherwise to force-create an Error and ensure that it is not grouped with other, similar stack traces?

Answer 1

Error reporting are grouped by following these general patterns:

• Exceptions are grouped together if they have the same exception type and similar stacks.
• The stack trace is ignored for exceptions that are typically unrelated to the source location where they occur.
• Errors without an exception stack are grouped together if they were created by the same log statement, approximated by the source location it was reported from (reportLocation).

You can also create a custom error reporting for Node.js by using the client library. Refer to this guide in setting up error reporting for Node.js