Improving Error Reporting in Oban Jobs

The article addresses the challenges of error handling in Oban jobs for Elixir applications, specifically when interacting with external networks or running queries. It emphasizes the importance of error monitoring services like Sentry and provides detailed strategies for improving error reports. The author recommends attaching an error handler using standard telemetry events and describes techniques for including additional context, such as customizing the `fingerprint` property to help Sentry group errors effectively. The article highlights the use of tags and extra context to provide more details in error reports and to help categorize them correctly. It also covers how to create consistent stack traces for better identification of issues. The final section includes a comprehensive guide to combining all the tips into an effective error-handling block for developers to implement in their own projects.