Add a way to suppress WARN for stackdriver NODE_ENV setup

[defunctzombie]

When I run my unit tests, the stdout contains lots of the following warning:

WARN:@google-cloud/error-reporting: The stackdriver error reporting client is configured to report errors if and only if the NODE_ENV environment variable is set to "production". Errors will not be reported. To have errors always reported, regardless of the value of NODE_ENV, set the reportMode configuration option to "always".

This happens because my unit tests invoke my entire app (a koa2 app) which includes the error reporting setup.

I'd like a way to suppress this warning for testing - maybe by handling NODE_ENV=test or a configuration option.

[defunctzombie]

Actually I'd like to amend the request. Upon setting the reportMode to never by checking the environment variable myself, I still get the following output:

ERROR:@google-cloud/error-reporting: Unable to find credential information on instance. This library will be unable to communicate with the Stackdriver API to save errors. Message: Could not load the default credentials. Browse to https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/getting-started for more information.

My expectation was that when I disable reporting, the library does not attempt to lookup any credentials or perform any other actions. Basically becomes a no-op.

[bcoe]

@defunctzombie this seems like a reasonable expectation 👌

[laljikanjareeya]

@defunctzombie reportMode can have one of three values:

production (default)
Only report errors if NODE_ENV is set to production.

always
Always report errors regardless of the value of NODE_ENV.

never
Never report errors regardless of the value of NODE_ENV.

So in case of never and always it never gives any warning.

In case of production it checks the NODE_ENV variable and if it's not set to production it will gives you warning.

The above functionality is working as expected 1.1.3 version and above.

@bcoe I think this is fair behavior WDYT?

[bachlis]

@laljikanjareeya sorry for jumping in, but why throw a warning if I specifically have changed the NODE_ENV variable? For example when running unit tests this adds too much noise to the output. It would be nice to be able to "silence" those warnings.

[laljikanjareeya]

@bachlis It throws a warning when both NODE_ENV and reportMode are not the same, I will take a look into unit test output.

[wtesler]

Yes, it would be a nice warning to silence. It's very common setup to have these logs only produced in production.

[tohagan]

Its very annoying to still have this unnecessary message filling up my log files. Please remove!