Better Documentation around Error Reporting

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Hey folks,

We now have a separate SDK documentation page around Error Reporting in the IntelliJ Platform. It should cover pretty much everything around the topic, including the information I posted earlier about ErrorReportSink.

I recorded a more practical guide to error reporting that explains things from a more hands-on perspective. If you find this helpful, please consider liking it or commenting on how you implemented your error reporter, which backend you used, or what was difficult.

@jansorg I still kept a link to your Sentry tutorial in the docs page and also put it in the description of my video. I hope this is OK. It’s a lovely guide that is still very relevant. And kudos for your feedback on ErrorReportSink :slight_smile:

As always: If you have any questions, you’re missing something or find error, let us know!

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@patrick.scheibe Thanks! Sure, it’s okay to include the link. On the other hand, I’ve migrated all my own error reporting to OTel API (with a small otel telemetry library instead of the huge OTel dependencies).
That’s backend-agnostic and allows to change the backend behind the OTel-receiver without updating all the plugins. I’m using Signoz for now, because Sentry has been a nightmare for self-hosting. Error deduplication etc. is not as nice as with Sentry, but good enough.

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