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fix(browser): semconv HTTP status by default; release browser 0.10.1, effect-sdk 0.9.1 - #1184

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Why

The HTTP semantic conventions (docs/http/http-spans.md) say, for client spans:

  • a 4xx response: status SHOULD be Error;
  • a 5xx response: status SHOULD be Error;
  • error.type SHOULD be the status code, as a string;
  • the status description is not set when the status code already explains it.

The fetch and XHR instrumentations already do this at 0.222. The SDK's export-time status policy undid it: a status only counted if the app listed it in errors.captureHttpStatus (default none), so main currently reports failed fetches less than a plain OTel setup would. It also added error.message, which the semconv registry marks deprecated.

What changes

  • errors.captureHttpStatus defaults to [[400, 599]] (the spec). Narrowing it, e.g. [[500, 599]], clears the Error for statuses left out.
  • No error.message on status errors or network failures. error.type alone classifies them, and sdk-core's httpStatusError becomes httpErrorType.
    • Issues from failed requests now group by service and status code, as they do for any OTel service, instead of per endpoint.
  • Customer docs: the browser SDK page (apps/landing/.../session-replay/browser-sdk.md) gets the stack's sections, which never reached main. The docs PR (docs(landing): browser SDK logs, Web Vitals, error tooling, replay on error, React #1159) was merged into its base branch after that branch had already landed. The page is three-way merged with fix(browser): address review findings in the browser SDK and session replay #1168's edits to it and updated for the new default.
  • docs/browser-sdk.md and the README describe the new default.

Semantic-conventions pass

Every attribute key the browser SDK, @maple/sdk-core and @maple/browser-session emit was checked against the semconv registry (v1.44.0).

Stable or development, and correct:

  • http.request.method, http.response.status_code, url.full, url.path
  • http.request.header.*, http.response.header.*, http.response.body.size
  • error.type, exception.*, code.*
  • browser.web_vital.* (and the browser.web_vital event)
  • session.id, user.id, service.namespace, deployment.environment.name, vcs.ref.head.revision

Flagged:

  • error.message (deprecated): removed in this PR.
  • http.method, http.status_code, http.url (renamed): only read as fallbacks when classifying spans from other instrumentations. The SDK doesn't emit them; the 0.222 instrumentations emit the stable keys.
  • deployment.environment (renamed): the existing deliberate dual-emit next to deployment.environment.name, kept because warehouse materialized views still read the legacy key.
  • app.navigation.interrupted: a custom attribute from before this work. By repo convention it would be maple.*; left alone here to avoid a silent rename.

Testing

  • packages/sdk-core: typecheck and tests (49), covering the default range and error.type-only typing.
  • packages/browser: typecheck and tests (124). Tests cover:
    • 4xx/5xx stay Error with no description;
    • 2xx, exceptions, network failures and non-client spans are left alone;
    • a narrowed list clears the statuses left out;
    • network failures carry no error.message.
  • packages/effect-sdk: typecheck, since it depends on sdk-core.
  • apps/landing docs-search test; size budgets; oxlint/oxfmt.

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Also bumps the SDKs for a patch release: @maple-dev/browser 0.10.1 (npm already has 0.10.0, published outside the repo, while the tree said 0.9.0) and @maple-dev/effect-sdk 0.9.1. Publishing is a separate manual step after merge.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Browser SDK documentation now covers logs, Web Vitals, browser reports, expanded tracing and replay options, HTTP error handling, error filtering, breadcrumbs, offline delivery, and replay-on-error sampling.
    • Added documentation for page-load spans, React error handling, router integrations, and expanded configuration and privacy settings.
  • Behavior Changes
    • Failed fetch and XHR responses with HTTP 4xx or 5xx statuses are captured as errors by default, with the status code recorded as the error type. Configure status capture to narrow which responses count as errors; network failures remain errors.
    • Timed-out requests are captured as errors, while requests aborted through their own AbortController are not.
    • HTTP errors no longer include a request-derived error description.
  • Documentation
    • Clarified how HTTP status capture and failed-request sampling work.

…fault

The HTTP semantic conventions say a client span with a 4xx or 5xx response
SHOULD be Error, with error.type set to the status code and no status
description. The fetch and XHR instrumentations already do that at 0.222,
but the SDK's status policy cleared it unless the app listed the status in
errors.captureHttpStatus, and added an error.message the registry marks
deprecated.

- errors.captureHttpStatus defaults to [[400, 599]]; narrowing it clears
  the Error for the statuses left out.
- No error.message on status or network-failure errors; error.type alone
  classifies them (httpStatusError becomes httpErrorType).
- The customer browser SDK page gets the stack's sections, which never
  reached main: the docs PR was merged into its base branch after that
  branch had already landed. Three-way merged with #1168's edits.
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The Browser SDK now treats HTTP 4xx and 5xx client responses as errors by default and assigns status-based error types. Fetch tracing also recognizes timeout aborts as errors. The PR updates tests, SDK version declarations, HTTP handling guidance, and documentation for Browser SDK features.

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Browser SDK HTTP errors and documentation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Default HTTP client-span error status
packages/sdk-core/src/http-status.ts, packages/sdk-core/src/http.test.ts, packages/sdk-core/src/index.ts, packages/browser/src/http-status.ts, packages/browser/src/http-status.test.ts, packages/browser/package.json, packages/browser/src/version.ts, packages/effect-sdk/package.json, packages/effect-sdk/src/version.ts
The shared policy defaults to HTTP statuses 400–599 and returns error.type from the status code without an error.message. The browser exporter applies configured status ranges. Tests cover default errors, excluded statuses, and retained network-failure behavior. The Browser and Effect SDK version declarations are updated.
Fetch timeout error handling
packages/browser/src/tracing.ts, packages/browser/src/tracing.browser.test.ts
Fetch tracing recognizes timeout errors by their name or signal reason. Tests cover timeout aborts and confirm that fetch failures do not include the deprecated error.message attribute.
HTTP error handling documentation
docs/browser-sdk.md, packages/browser/README.md, packages/sdk-core/src/error-filters.ts
The documentation describes default 4xx and 5xx errors, status-range configuration, network failures, timeout aborts, and sampling behavior for failed requests.
Browser SDK configuration and capture documentation
apps/landing/src/content/docs/session-replay/browser-sdk.md
The guide adds configuration and usage details for error filtering, breadcrumbs, logs, Web Vitals, request and response capture, and browser reports.
Navigation, sampling, and integration documentation
apps/landing/src/content/docs/session-replay/browser-sdk.md
The guide adds details about navigation timing, router integrations, trace and replay sampling, offline transport, and React error handling.

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Change: Bug fix

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The HTTP status and timeout handling changes have no established merge-blocking defect. Timeout descriptions remain compatible with the documented network-failure behavior.

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Changed systems: packages/browser, packages/sdk-core, packages/effect-sdk, apps/landing, docs

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  • observed — packages/browser (library) was modified; 7 changed files map to changed impact.
  • observed — packages/sdk-core (library) was modified; 4 changed files map to changed impact.
  • observed — packages/effect-sdk (library) was modified; 2 changed files map to changed impact.
  • observed — apps/landing (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

  • observed — Modified behavior in packages/browser/README.md: The documentation changes failed HTTP responses from errors only when captureHttpStatus is configured to treating all 4xx and 5xx fetch/XHR responses as status-typed errors by default. Setting captureHttpStatus to [[500, 599]] narrows the statuses treated as errors; network failures remain errors.
  • observed — Modified behavior in packages/browser/package.json: The package version changes from 0.9.0 to 0.10.1.
  • observed — Modified behavior in packages/browser/src/http-status.test.ts: The default-exporter tests now expect 404 and 503 client spans to have Error status and status-valued error.type, with no error.message. They add expectations for an unchanged 204 span, network failures, recorded exceptions, and an internal span with status 500. This replaces the previous tests that expected a status-only 404 error to be cleared and preserved errors on internal spans.
  • observed — Modified behavior in packages/browser/src/http-status.test.ts: The capture-status tests now configure [500, 599] and 429; they expect a listed legacy-semconv 429 to remain an Error typed as "429", and a 404 omitted from the configuration to have its instrumentation-set Error status and error.type cleared. This replaces tests for a described 503 status error, request-derived error messages, and network-failure descriptions.
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Patch releases. browser 0.10.0 was published from outside the repo, so the
browser package goes from 0.9.0 in the tree to 0.10.1 to stay above npm.
@Makisuo Makisuo changed the title fix(browser): HTTP client spans follow the semconv status rules by default fix(browser): semconv HTTP status by default; release browser 0.10.1, effect-sdk 0.9.1 Sep 30, 2026
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🟢 Confidence 4/5 · likely safe to merge
The new default flips client 4xx spans to Error in traces; ingest's existing 4xx guard keeps them out of error tracking, so the blast radius is error rate, not noise.
quality 100/100 · no findings · tests covered · risk medium

The browser SDK's export-time HTTP status policy now follows the client-span semconv by default: every 4xx/5xx makes a client span Error with error.type set to the status, and the deprecated error.message is gone. Contained and well tested.

  • HttpStatusExporter defaults to DEFAULT_ERROR_STATUS ([[400, 599]])
  • httpStatusError becomes httpErrorType: status and network errors carry no error.message
  • Narrowed errors.captureHttpStatus still clears the Error a status left out
What was checked
  • error_events_mv drops exception-less 4xx client spans whose error.type is the status (migration 0030)
  • isStatusOnlyError still requires a 3-digit error.type and no exception event (browser http-status.ts:18)
  • httpErrorType is used through both constructors and version.ts matches each bumped package.json

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- Line 260: Update the rejected-fetch handling in the tracing logic referenced
by the browser SDK documentation so timeout-triggered aborts are recorded as
errors while intentional request aborts remain excluded. Distinguish timeout
aborts from other cases where request.signal.aborted is true, and align the
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- AbortSignal.timeout() aborts the signal and rejects with a TimeoutError,
  so the abort check skipped it. A timeout now marks the span Error with
  error.type TimeoutError; aborting with the app's own controller still
  does not.
- The docs promised every error span is sent whatever tracing.sampleRate
  is; only errors reported as their own spans are. Failed request spans
  follow the session's sampling.
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🟢 Confidence 5/5 · safe to merge
The new isTimeout branch only widens the error case for AbortSignal.timeout() and leaves app-driven aborts untouched; the added browser test exercises it and fails without the change.
quality 100/100 · no findings · tests covered · risk low

The follow-up makes a fetch rejected by AbortSignal.timeout() count as an error again, without changing how app-driven aborts are classified, and marks error.message as gone in the docs and tests. Contained and safe to merge.

  • isTimeout treats a TimeoutError rejection or signal reason as a failure
  • Fetch timeout now sets Error status despite signal.aborted being true
What was checked
  • A normal request aborted by the app still reports Unset: AbortError and signal.aborted short-circuit isTimeout (tracing.ts:280)
  • A pre-aborted signal with a non-timeout reason returns false from isTimeout, confirmed by the existing custom-reason test

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