airbrake/airbrake — Issue #23: failure with Airbrake takes down entire app
Author: skippy
Created: 2011-10-11 03:57:42+00:00
State: open

related to: https://github.com/airbrake/airbrake/issues/17

when the SSL misconfiguration error is thrown for that hoptoad, it bubbles up the exception. We use hoptoad in a lot of cases to notify us when something happened but we then swallow the error and continue on...and right now it is brining things to a sudden halt.

The SSL misconfiguration issue aside, this concerns me because it means the app is dependent upon a 3rd party system to function; this isn't fire and forget but fire and hope Airbrake doesn't fail or take 5 seconds to return. I would be very interested in working with you all to convert this over to a separate thread that doesn't get in the way of the application. If you are open to that let me know!

thanks