We built an app in Zend Framework (v1) and have not worked a lot in setting up error reporting and logging. Is there any way we could get some level or error reporting without t
You can use Zend_Controller_Plugin_ErrorHandler . As you can see on the documentation page there is an example that checks for missing controller/action and shows you how to set the appropriate headers.
You can then use Zend_Log to log your error messages to disk/db/mail.