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Error Reference Legacy API

The API returns errors in the following format:

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{
  "error": {
    "message": "<error text>",
    "code": 1,
    "detail_code": 99,
    "field_errors": {
      "fieldname1": ["error1", "error2"],
      "fieldname2": ["error1", "error2"]
    },
    "errors": ["error1", "error2"]
  }
}

message and code are required fields:

• message describes the error.
• code is an internal numerical identifier, useful when reporting problems to k6 support.

All other fields are optional. The field_errors object will have keys named after the data field causing a problem (fieldname1 and fieldname2 above are just examples) whereas the errors array will hold details about any other errors.

The most common error codes are (not a full list):