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Problem

Two Sentry issues came in as SentryHttpClientException — HTTP Client Error with status code: 503, both from the same self-hosted instance (samling.myqnapcloud.com, a QNAP-hosted Pinakes) within ~12s: one on /api/v1/health, one on a cover image. The QNAP was briefly unavailable (503 = Service Unavailable).

That is not an app bug — the server was down. But Sentry's OkHttp auto-instrumentation (autoInstallation) reports every backend HTTP error as an error-level event, and this app talks to the user's own self-hosted server, so a backend outage is the server's state. The /health probe is the clearest case: its whole job is to detect a down server, so a failure there is expected.

Fix

A beforeSend in the Sentry init drops the two clearly-not-our-fault cases:

  • a failed /health probe, and
  • transient upstream 5xx (502 bad gateway / 503 unavailable / 504 timeout).

A genuine 500, a 4xx (which can indicate an app-side request bug), and all non-HTTP crashes still come through unchanged.

Compiles clean (:app:compileDebugKotlin). The filter takes effect in the next Android build.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Miglioramenti
    • Ottimizzato il monitoraggio degli errori per ridurre le segnalazioni relative ai controlli di salute del backend e agli errori temporanei del server.
    • Gli altri eventi di errore continuano a essere registrati normalmente.

Sentry's OkHttp auto-instrumentation captures every backend HTTP error as an
error-level SentryHttpClientException. This app points at the user's OWN
self-hosted server, so a backend outage is the server's state, not a bug here —
and it generated noise like two "HTTP Client Error 503" events (one on the
/health probe, one on a cover image) when a QNAP-hosted instance was briefly
unavailable.

Add a beforeSend that drops the two clearly-not-our-fault cases: a failed
/health probe (whose whole job is to detect a down server) and transient
upstream 5xx (502/503/504). A real 500 or a 4xx — which can point at an app-side
request bug — still comes through.
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L’applicazione configura il filtro beforeSend di Sentry. Il filtro scarta gli errori backend relativi a /health e agli stati HTTP 502, 503 e 504. Gli altri eventi restano inviabili a Sentry.

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Filtro degli eventi Sentry

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configurazione e riconoscimento degli errori HTTP
app/src/main/java/com/pinakes/app/PinakesApplication.kt
Aggiunge gli import Sentry, configura beforeSend e introduce isExpectedBackendHttpFailure. Il filtro scarta gli errori dell’endpoint /health e gli stati 502, 503 e 504. Gli altri eventi restano invariati.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Semplice) | ~10 minuti

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c215b

The change can suppress a genuine non-HTTP exception when its message resembles an HTTP error, and it may also discard health-endpoint 500 or 4xx failures that the PR says should remain visible. These bounded filtering risks should be corrected or explicitly accepted before merge.

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Sono un coniglio, salto nel log,
Sentry filtra con ordine e foglia,
/health riposa, i gateway fan stop,
gli altri eventi seguono la soglia,
e il codice procede con passo leggero.

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Actionable comments posted: 1

🧹 Nitpick comments (1)
app/src/main/java/com/pinakes/app/PinakesApplication.kt (1)

79-101: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Aggiungi test per la matrice del filtro.

Copri 502, 503 e 504, 500 e 4xx, entrambi gli endpoint health e un’eccezione non HTTP con testo simile a HTTP Client Error with status code:. I test devono verificare anche query string e slash finale.

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In `@app/src/main/java/com/pinakes/app/PinakesApplication.kt` around lines 79 -
101, Aggiungi test per isExpectedBackendHttpFailure coprendo 502, 503 e 504,
500, codici 4xx, entrambi gli endpoint health, query string e slash finale.
Verifica inoltre che un’eccezione non HTTP contenente il testo “HTTP Client
Error with status code:” non venga filtrata, mantenendo il comportamento atteso
per gli errori HTTP reali.
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Inline comments:
In `@app/src/main/java/com/pinakes/app/PinakesApplication.kt`:
- Around line 56-58: Update the BeforeSendCallback around
isExpectedBackendHttpFailure to classify OkHttp failures using Hint
TypeCheckHint.OKHTTP_REQUEST and TypeCheckHint.OKHTTP_RESPONSE, and determine
expected HTTP failures from the structured response status code, including
event.contexts.response.statusCode, rather than matching detail text. Preserve
non-HTTP exceptions such as IllegalStateException from being discarded.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@app/src/main/java/com/pinakes/app/PinakesApplication.kt`:
- Around line 79-101: Aggiungi test per isExpectedBackendHttpFailure coprendo
502, 503 e 504, 500, codici 4xx, entrambi gli endpoint health, query string e
slash finale. Verifica inoltre che un’eccezione non HTTP contenente il testo
“HTTP Client Error with status code:” non venga filtrata, mantenendo il
comportamento atteso per gli errori HTTP reali.
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Comment thread app/src/main/java/com/pinakes/app/PinakesApplication.kt Outdated
Address review feedback:

- Classify OkHttp failures from the Sentry integration's structured signals — the
  Request/Response on the Hint (TypeCheckHint.OKHTTP_REQUEST/OKHTTP_RESPONSE) and
  contexts.response.statusCode — instead of matching exception text. A non-HTTP
  crash whose message happens to contain "HTTP Client Error with status code:" is
  no longer misclassified and dropped.
- Extract the decision into a pure `isExpectedBackendFailure(...)` and cover it
  with a unit-test matrix: 502/503/504 dropped; 500 and 4xx kept; /health dropped
  for any status incl. query string and trailing slash; a non-HTTP failure kept
  even with a 503; unknown status/URL handled. testDebugUnitTest green.
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