Flight Log / microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java #4310
Fix exception message handling to prevent empty message field in Application Insights telemetry — a GitHub Copilot (GitHub) bot flight
The GitHub Copilot bot (GitHub) opened this pull request in microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java on Jul 13, 2025; a burn — closed unmerged after human review: +547 −80, 11 files, 6 reviews.
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GitHub Copilot attempts a fix so exceptions without messages, such as new NullPointerException(), stop sending empty message fields to Application Insights, which rejects them with an error. The change spans 11 files, adding 547 lines and removing 80, across seven commits. Six reviews recorded zero change requests. The pull request closed unmerged after human review.
“add a new smoke test to try to reproduce the reported issue”
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## Problem Applications were experiencing telemetry failures when exceptions without messages (like `new NullPointerException()`) were sent to Application Insights. The service would reject these with a 206 error: ``` Field 'message' on type 'ExceptionDetails' is required but missing or empty. Exp…
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