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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2026 01:12:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] docs: Create error handling and logging audit report

This commit adds the AUDIT-ERROR-HANDLING.md file, which contains a detailed audit of the error handling and logging practices in the codebase. The audit was conducted as per the initial request and covers exception handling, error recovery, user-facing errors, API errors, and various aspects of logging.

Co-authored-by: Snider <631881+Snider@users.noreply.github.com>
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+# Error Handling
+
+## Exception Handling
+
+- **Are exceptions caught appropriately?**
+  - The framework appears to rely on Laravel's default exception handling, as no custom global exception handler was found.
+  - Specific `try/catch` blocks are used in some places, such as in the `StructuredDataTester`, to handle exceptions from external API calls.
+
+- **Generic catches hiding bugs?**
+  - No evidence of generic `catch (Exception $e)` blocks that hide bugs was found in the analyzed files.
+
+- **Error information leakage?**
+  - The `BuildsResponse` trait's `fromHttp` method includes the full body of the upstream response in the new error response's context. This could potentially leak sensitive information or internal stack traces to the client if the upstream service's errors are not sanitized.
+
+## Error Recovery
+
+- **Graceful degradation?**
+  - The `Storage` configuration includes a `silent_fallback` option to fall back to the database when Redis fails, which is a good example of graceful degradation.
+
+- **Retry logic with backoff?**
+  - The `PushAssetToCdn` job includes retry logic with backoff, which is a good error recovery pattern.
+
+- **Circuit breaker patterns?**
+  - The `Storage` configuration includes a circuit breaker to prevent cascading failures when Redis becomes unavailable.
+
+## User-Facing Errors
+
+- **Helpful without exposing internals?**
+  - The `StructuredDataTester` provides an excellent example of user-facing error handling, with clear, actionable feedback that doesn't expose internal details.
+
+- **Consistent error format?**
+  - The `BuildsResponse` trait provides a consistent structure for API responses, with helper methods for common success and error scenarios.
+
+- **Localization support?**
+  - The `lang` configuration includes options for logging missing translation keys, but no specific localization support for error messages was found in the analyzed files.
+
+## API Errors
+
+- **Standard error response format?**
+  - The `BuildsResponse` trait provides a standard error response format.
+
+- **Appropriate HTTP status codes?**
+  - The `BuildsResponse` trait's `fromHttp` method correctly handles common status codes like 401 and 429.
+
+- **Error codes for clients?**
+  - The `StructuredDataTester` uses error codes to identify specific validation issues, which is a good practice.
+
+# Logging
+
+## What is Logged
+
+- **Security events (auth, access)?**
+  - The `activity` logging, using the `spatie/laravel-activitylog` package, is used to log model changes, which can serve as an audit trail.
+  - The `bouncer` configuration includes options for logging action requests and honeypot hits.
+- **Errors with context?**
+  - Yes, the `PushAssetToCdn` job provides a good example of `Log::error` being called with a structured context array containing relevant data for debugging.
+- **Performance metrics?**
+  - The `storage` configuration includes a `metrics` section with a `log_enabled` option to log cache metrics.
+
+## What Should NOT be Logged
+
+- **Passwords/tokens**
+  - No evidence of explicit logging of passwords or tokens was found.
+- **PII without consent**
+  - The `LogsActivity` trait defaults to logging all dirty model attributes. This could inadvertently log PII if models are not configured to exclude sensitive attributes using the `$activityLogAttributes` property.
+- **Full credit card numbers**
+  - No evidence of handling or logging of credit card numbers was found.
+
+## Log Quality
+
+- **Structured logging (JSON)?**
+  - The framework relies on Laravel's default logging configuration, which is not structured by default. However, the consistent use of context arrays with `Log::error` calls is a good practice that facilitates structured logging if a JSON formatter is configured.
+- **Correlation IDs?**
+  - No evidence of correlation IDs was found.
+- **Log levels used correctly?**
+  - Yes, the code analyzed uses different log levels (`debug`, `info`, `warning`, `error`) appropriately. The `storage`, `lang`, and `activity` configurations also allow for configurable log levels.
+
+## Log Security
+
+- **Injection-safe?**
+  - Laravel's logger uses parameterized logging, so it should be safe from log injection.
+- **Tamper-evident?**
+  - This is outside the scope of the application code and depends on the logging infrastructure.
+- **Retention policy?**
+  - The `activity` and `bouncer` logs have configurable retention policies (`retention_days`). Other logs rely on Laravel's default log rotation.