Add error message context to failure

[StephenOTT]

When a job/task fails the logs contain what happened, but often you want to add a error message/explanation as part of the log

Is there a way to do this?

At first glance it would seem a json col in the events table would work and allow submitting "context" info as part of the job attempt/fail

Thanks

[onlyann]

https://procrastinate.readthedocs.io/en/stable/howto/production/logging.html#make-the-most-out-of-the-logging-system

Does the above section help?

In the case of a failed job, there would be an exc_info atttribute in the extra field that holds the caught exception.

Another way is to define a middleware and catch/re-raise exceptions there.

At first glance it would seem a json col in the events table would work and allow submitting "context" info as part of the job attempt/fail

I can see how it would be useful to have error context persisted for failed job events.