Using highlight.io with Gatsby
Install the npm pulugin in your terminal.
# with npm
npm install @highlight-run/gatsby-plugin-highlight
# with yarn
yarn add @highlight-run/gatsby-plugin-highlight
Grab your project ID from app.highlight.io/setup and insert it in place of <YOUR_PROJECT_ID>.
To get started, we recommend setting environment, version, and networkRecording. Refer to our docs on SDK configuration to read more about these options.
module.exports = {
plugins: [
{
resolve: '@highlight-run/gatsby-plugin-highlight',
options: {
orgID: '<YOUR_PROJECT_ID>', // Get your project ID from https://app.highlight.io/setup
},
},
],
}
Identify users to tie their sessions/errors to their account. We suggest doing this before/after the authentication flow of your web app.
The first argument of identify will be searchable via the property identifier, and the second property is searchable by the key of each item in the object. Read more about this in our identifying users section.
H.identify('jay@highlight.io', {
id: 'very-secure-id',
phone: '867-5309',
bestFriend: 'jenny'
});Check your dashboard for a new session. Don't see anything? Send us a message in our community and we can help debug.
To get properly enhanced stacktraces of your javascript app, we recommend instrumenting sourcemaps. If you deploy public sourcemaps, you can skip this step. Refer to our docs on sourcemaps to read more about this option.
# Upload sourcemaps to Highlight
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npx --yes @highlight-run/sourcemap-uploader upload --apiKey ${YOUR_ORG_API_KEY} --path ./build
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The next step is instrumenting your backend to tie logs/errors to your frontend sessions. Read more about this in our backend instrumentation section.