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Salim Chemes
Salim Chemes

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Global Error Handler in Angular + Application Insights

We don't like errors, but they will happen anyway, so it's important to have a centralized way to handle errors in our angular app. We want to catch, identify and take actions with them.
In this post we will:

  • Implement global error handler in angular
  • Add Application Insights (aka AI) sdk
  • Track errors in AI

Implement global error handler in angular
Angular makes our life easier catching the errors globally thank to ErrorHandler class, so let's see how to implement it

  • Create Global Error Handler service and implement ErrorHandler class
import { Injectable, ErrorHandler } from "@angular/core";
import { HttpErrorResponse } from "@angular/common/http";

@Injectable({
  providedIn: "root",
})
export class GlobalErrorHandler implements ErrorHandler {
  constructor() {}

  handleError(error: Error | HttpErrorResponse) {}
}
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  • Update app.module.ts providers
import { BrowserModule } from "@angular/platform-browser";
import { NgModule, ErrorHandler } from "@angular/core"; 
import { AppRoutingModule } from "./app-routing.module";
import { AppComponent } from "./app.component";
import { HttpClientModule } from "@angular/common/http";
import { GlobalErrorHandler } from "./services/global-error-handler";

@NgModule({
  declarations: [AppComponent],
  imports: [BrowserModule, HttpClientModule, AppRoutingModule],
  providers: [{ provide: ErrorHandler, useClass: GlobalErrorHandler }], // Our service added

  bootstrap: [AppComponent],
})
export class AppModule {}
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Add Application Insights sdk
We need to add this dependency in our app

  • npm i --save @microsoft/applicationinsights-web

Now let's create a service to send exceptions to AI

import { Injectable } from "@angular/core";
import { ApplicationInsights } from "@microsoft/applicationinsights-web";
import { environment } from "src/environments/environment";
@Injectable({
  providedIn: "root",
})
export class ApplicationInsightService {
  appInsights: ApplicationInsights;
  constructor() {
    this.appInsights = new ApplicationInsights({
      config: {
        connectionString: environment.appInsightsConfig.connectionString, // provided by Azure
        /* ...Other Configuration Options... */
      },
    });
    this.appInsights.loadAppInsights();
    this.appInsights.trackPageView();
  }

  logError(error: Error) {
    this.appInsights.trackException({ exception: error });
  }
}

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And then integrate it with our global error handler service

import { Injectable, ErrorHandler } from "@angular/core";
import { HttpErrorResponse } from "@angular/common/http";
import { ErrorService } from "./error.service";
import { LogService } from "./log.service";

@Injectable({
  providedIn: "root",
})
export class GlobalErrorHandler implements ErrorHandler {
  constructor(
    private errorService: ErrorService,
    private logService: LogService
  ) {}

  handleError(error: Error | HttpErrorResponse) {
    if (error instanceof HttpErrorResponse) {
      // Server error
      alert(this.errorService.getHttpError(error));
    } else {
      // Client Error
      this.logService.logErrorOnApplicationInsight(error);
      alert(this.errorService.getClientSideError(error));
    }
    // Always log errors
    this.logService.logError(error);
  }
}
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logService is just a wrapper to take log actions

import { Injectable } from "@angular/core";
import { ApplicationInsightService } from "./application-insight.service";
import { HttpErrorResponse } from "@angular/common/http";

@Injectable({
  providedIn: "root"
})
export class LogService {
  constructor(private applicationInsightService: ApplicationInsightService) {}

  logErrorOnApplicationInsight(error: Error) {
    return this.applicationInsightService.logError(error);
  }

  logError(error: Error | HttpErrorResponse) {
    console.error(error);
  }
}

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Track errors in AI
To be able to see errors we send from the app we need to

  • Create AI artifact (need a resource group first)
  • Get connection string and add it into our app (you will find it in Azure portal)
  • Throw an error from our app and track exception (check example app)

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This is how the errors look in AI
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References

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LQQ677

Hello Salim, I'm not very familiar with Angular. I'd like to ask if I threw a browser exception, such as console. Exception ('0 '), whether this can be captured by AI. I tried, but it doesn't report to AI. When I search for angular exceptions, it seems that all angular exceptions are automatically retrieved, right.

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Salim Chemes

Hi, not sure what is the issue you are having, you can take a look into the repo or into this video
youtube.com/watch?v=tvzjesdpfFQ&fe...

repo:
github.com/salimchemes/global-erro...

Additionally, the library is not Angular specific, so you should not have any major issues
github.com/microsoft/applicationin...