cockroachdb/errors

Health v2 · maintenance only

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2454 stars · 74 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Go error handling library that is a drop-in replacement for the standard errors package and github.com/pkg/errors, adding network-portable error objects for distributed systems. It supports PII-free error details and optional automatic Sentry.io error reporting.

Use cases

• serialize errors across RPC boundaries in distributed systems
• replace github.com/pkg/errors with richer error wrapping
• capture stack traces efficiently when wrapping errors
• report errors to Sentry with PII automatically stripped
• maintain error compatibility across mixed-version services
• use errors.Is and errors.As with enhanced error types

When to choose

• building distributed Go systems where errors must survive network transport
• you need structured, PII-safe error details for telemetry
• you want a superset of pkg/errors and Go 1.13 errors APIs

When to avoid

• small single-process apps where the standard library errors package suffices
• non-Go projects
• you need zero external dependencies

Facets

library · maturity active

error-handling serialization logging developer-tools microservices backend go cross-platform error-wrapping network-portability pii-redaction sentry-reporting drop-in-replacement

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