Error Notification in Production

When a traceback occurs in production sites, you need to send it somewhere. Normally Django sends emails which can work fine until you get a few thousand error emails in a minute.

To mitigate this, you can use Arecibo to track your errors. There are currently three servers:

https://arecibo-phx.mozilla.org/ (behind LDAP)

The preferred PHX instance.

To use it place the following in your Django settings:

ARECIBO_SERVER_URL = 'http://arecibo1.dmz.phx1.mozilla.com/'

https://arecibo-sjc.mozilla.org/ (behind LDAP)

The SJC instance.

To use it place the following in your Django settings:

ARECIBO_SERVER_URL = 'http://arecibo1.dmz.sjc1.mozilla.com/'

http://amckay-arecibo.khan.mozilla.org/

Test server for local development.

To use it place the following in your Django settings:

ARECIBO_SERVER_URL = 'http://amckay-arecibo.khan.mozilla.org/'

To send errors from playdoh, see the playdoh docs.

Warning

IT needs to update the ARECIBO_SERVER_URL in Django’s local settings. They will need to verify via curl, that the webheads can reach Arecibo:

curl -I http://arecibo1.dmz.phx1.mozilla.com/

Note

The PHX data centre server is on a dedicated box, where as SJC is in a VM. Please use the PHX one if possible.