instrument-error-tracking

PostHog error tracking automatically captures exceptions by integrating the platform SDK reference, enabling exception autocapture, and configuring environment variables for your React or Node.js project. It handles initial SDK installation if needed, providing automatic exception monitoring across web and server-side platforms.

Exception autocapture automatically detects and records unhandled errors across supported platforms, while source maps upload guidance deminifies stack traces to reveal original source code. This combination captures production errors with full context, enabling developers to monitor exceptions and review stack traces during feature work or PR reviews.

PostHog error tracking applies to frontend and backend apps across React, Next.js, Web, Node.js, Python, Ruby, and Go. It enables automatic exception capture and manual capture points via platform equivalents like captureException, supporting both web and server-side instrumentation.

Yes, you can add manual error capture points using captureException or platform equivalents alongside automatic exception autocapture. This allows targeted error tracking for specific code paths while automatic capture handles unhandled exceptions across your supported platforms.

Upload source maps to PostHog to deminify stack traces from production errors. The Skill provides source maps upload guidance to transform minified production stack traces back to original source code, making it easier to debug exceptions captured through automatic or manual error tracking.

Configuring environment variables per project ensures PostHog error tracking correctly attributes captured exceptions to the right project context. This per-project configuration is required during SDK integration to enable exception autocapture and manual capture points to function properly across your platforms.