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feat(microbot): report script errors to microbot.cloud - #1900

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Summary

  • New diagnostics/ScriptErrorReporter, a root logback appender. It groups every ERROR log event (caught exceptions, Microbot.logStackTrace, uncaught exceptions) by exception type plus the top 3 stack frames, counts repeats, and keeps at most 100 distinct errors per batch.
  • Every 5 minutes it posts a batch to POST /api/plugintelemetry/errors, using the existing X-Plugin-Telemetry-Token. Each error is attributed to the owning Hub plugin and its installed version, worked out from the stack trace.
  • Privacy: messages go through DiagnosticReport.clean, which redacts paths, emails and tokens, and the local player name becomes [player]. The microbot.cloud session ID already used for pings is sent, so the API can reject reports from clients without a live session. Errors stay queued until that session exists. No account ID is sent.
  • Opt-out: skipped by --disable-telemetry, -Dmicrobot.disableTelemetry=true or the "Disable telemetry" toggle, whose description now lists error reports.
  • -Dmicrobot.apiUrl overrides the microbot.cloud base URL for local testing.

Backend

The endpoint is in chsami/Microbot-Api#1. Deploy that first; until then, uploads fail silently and are logged at debug level only. Payload:

{ "sessionId": "<server-issued session id>", "microbotVersion": "...", "microbotCommit": "...", "buildChannel": "stable",
  "javaVersion": "17", "osName": "Windows 11", "osArch": "amd64",
  "errors": [{ "fingerprint": "...", "count": 146, "firstSeen": 1759850000000,
    "plugin": "AutoMiningPlugin", "pluginVersion": "1.4.2", "logger": "...", "thread": "AutoMiningScript-1",
    "message": "...", "exception": "java.lang.NullPointerException", "exceptionMessage": "...",
    "stack": ["pkg.Class.method:123"] }] }

Test plan

  • ScriptErrorReporterTest 7/7 (grouping, JDK-frame grouping, plugin attribution, sanitising errors without an exception, cap, both opt-out paths)
  • Full :client:runUnitTests: 2122 tests, 0 failures
  • Live shaded jar on Xvfb with a sideloaded fixture plugin, pointed at a local sink via -Dmicrobot.apiUrl:
    • telemetry on: one upload after 5 minutes with 3 grouped errors (count=146 for the repeating loop), all attributed to the fixture plugin and its version; warnings not sent; path and email redacted
    • --disable-telemetry: 194 errors logged, 0 requests sent
  • Windows and macOS untested

Review fixes (a145ed5)

  • The fingerprint for errors without an exception is now sanitised. It had sent the raw log message.
  • A runtime failure during an upload is caught, so it can no longer stop reporting for the rest of the session.
  • Exception fingerprints skip java./javax./jdk./sun. frames, so unrelated errors thrown inside the JDK no longer merge.

Limits

  • Up to 5 minutes of errors are lost when the client exits, because nothing flushes on exit.
  • DiagnosticReport.clean truncates messages to 80 characters and strips <...>, so JDK helpful-NPE text loses its <localN> names.
  • Only the local player's name is scrubbed from free-text messages.
  • Plugin attribution reads only the root cause's first 20 frames. Errors rethrown from the client thread, or with deep stacks, may go out with no plugin field.

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A root logback appender groups ERROR events by exception type and top
stack frames, attributes them to the owning Hub plugin and version,
sanitises messages and posts a batch to /plugintelemetry/errors every
5 minutes. Honours --disable-telemetry, -Dmicrobot.disableTelemetry and
the Disable telemetry toggle. -Dmicrobot.apiUrl overrides the API base
URL for local testing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PKz6YjDRJdva762xPzTaia
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The API client now supports a configurable base URL and asynchronous error-report submission. A new Logback appender groups error events, sanitizes diagnostic details, attributes matching installed plugins, and submits batches every five minutes. The plugin attaches the appender during startup and removes it during shutdown. Telemetry-disable settings suppress collection and submission. Tests cover error grouping, plugin attribution, the fingerprint limit, and telemetry suppression.

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Error reports can disclose a player name after logout, and rejected uploads are not visible in logs. Address the privacy gap before merging.

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Review of #1900: the no-exception fingerprint carried the raw log
message, so paths and emails reached the payload unsanitised. Scrub it
like the message field. Build exception fingerprints from the first
non-JDK frames so unrelated errors thrown inside the JDK do not merge,
and catch runtime failures in flush so one bad batch cannot cancel the
scheduled task for the rest of the session.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@runelite-client/src/main/java/net/runelite/client/plugins/microbot/diagnostics/ScriptErrorReporter.java:
- Around line 235-236: Update `scrub` to use a safely retained player name when
`localPlayerName()` is unavailable after logout, so previously known names are
still removed from messages and exception text; obtain client state through
`ClientThread.runOnClientThreadOptional` rather than accessing it during
arbitrary log calls.

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@runelite-client/src/main/java/net/runelite/client/plugins/microbot/MicrobotApi.java:
- Around line 127-129: Update MicrobotApi’s onResponse callback to check
response.isSuccessful() and log the HTTP status at debug level for unsuccessful
telemetry uploads. Keep closing the response and the existing pending-batch
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String name = localPlayerName();
if (raw != null && name != null && !name.isEmpty())

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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Do not send a player name when the local player is unavailable.

If a script logs an error after logout, localPlayerName() returns null. scrub then leaves a previously known player name in the message or exception message sent to the server. Retain the name for scrubbing through logout, or omit free-text fields when no name is available. Obtain client state on the client thread rather than during arbitrary log calls. As per coding guidelines, “Use ClientThread.runOnClientThreadOptional for safe client access.”

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Update `scrub` to use a safely retained player name when `localPlayerName()` is
unavailable after logout, so previously known names are still removed from
messages and exception text; obtain client state through
`ClientThread.runOnClientThreadOptional` rather than accessing it during
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chsami and others added 2 commits October 7, 2026 20:42
The API now accepts error reports only from a live microbot.cloud
session. Send ClientSessionManager's server-issued session id instead
of a random one, and keep errors queued until a session exists.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PKz6YjDRJdva762xPzTaia
Final review of #1900:
- microbotPing reset the RuneLite session id instead of the Microbot
  one, so a dead Microbot session was never reopened and every error
  upload would 403 until restart. Reset microbotSessionId.
- Requeue a batch the server rejects or that fails to send, and log
  the HTTP status at debug.
- Remember the local player name from GameTick on the client thread
  and keep it after logout for scrubbing, instead of reading game
  state from the logging thread.
- Normalise digits in message fingerprints so "failed 1..N" does not
  fill the 100-entry cap.
- Restore ClientSessionManager's CRLF line endings.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PKz6YjDRJdva762xPzTaia
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