Can I get Heroku Logs to return only lines outlining errors?

Question

The heroku logs are a great resource to check what happened to your app when things go wrong.. Unfortunately, they also log a great deal of information. Is there some way I can

Answer 1

Personally I think that logs aren't the best place to look as the error and the detail are easily missed. I would ensure that my code was raising errors to an external location to ensure that they don't get missed.

There's a number of options ranging from the simple ExceptionNotifier, to more advanced systems such as Airbrake (which is what I use myself).

Not only will these notify you of the errors, but they'll also given you a stack of meta information that you can use.