Canvas Error Reports API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Canvas LMS REST Error Reports API
  version: v1
  summary: The complete Canvas LMS REST API, converted from the Swagger 1.2 documents Instructure publishes under https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/.
  description: The Canvas LMS REST API covers courses, assignments, quizzes, grades, users, enrollments, accounts, files, modules, rubrics, submissions, SIS imports, LTI, analytics and account administration.
  contact:
    name: Instructure Canvas
    url: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/
  license:
    name: AGPL-3.0
    url: https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms/blob/master/LICENSE
servers:
- url: https://canvas.instructure.com/api
  description: Instructure-hosted Canvas (canvas.instructure.com)
- url: https://{canvas_host}/api
  description: Any Canvas instance; Canvas is multi-tenant and self-hostable, so the host is the institution's Canvas domain.
  variables:
    canvas_host:
      default: canvas.instructure.com
      description: Your institution's Canvas hostname, e.g. school.instructure.com
security:
- bearerAuth: []
- oauth2: []
tags:
- name: Error Reports
  x-resource: error_reports
  externalDocs:
    url: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/error_reports.html
paths:
  /v1/error_reports:
    post:
      tags:
      - Error Reports
      operationId: create_error_report
      summary: Create Error Report
      description: 'Create a new error report documenting an experienced problem


        Performs the same action as when a user uses the "help -> report a problem"

        dialog.'
      requestBody:
        required: false
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                error[subject]:
                  type: string
                  description: The summary of the problem
                error[url]:
                  type: string
                  description: URL from which the report was issued
                error[email]:
                  type: string
                  description: Email address for the reporting user
                error[comments]:
                  type: string
                  description: The long version of the story from the user one what they experienced
                error[http_env]:
                  type: object
                  additionalProperties: true
                  description: 'A collection of metadata about the users'' environment.  If not provided,

                    canvas will collect it based on information found in the request.

                    (Doesn''t have to be HTTPENV info, could be anything JSON object that can be

                    serialized as a hash, a mobile app might include relevant metadata for

                    itself)'
              required:
              - error[subject]
          application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                error[subject]:
                  type: string
                  description: The summary of the problem
                error[url]:
                  type: string
                  description: URL from which the report was issued
                error[email]:
                  type: string
                  description: Email address for the reporting user
                error[comments]:
                  type: string
                  description: The long version of the story from the user one what they experienced
                error[http_env]:
                  type: object
                  additionalProperties: true
                  description: 'A collection of metadata about the users'' environment.  If not provided,

                    canvas will collect it based on information found in the request.

                    (Doesn''t have to be HTTPENV info, could be anything JSON object that can be

                    serialized as a hash, a mobile app might include relevant metadata for

                    itself)'
              required:
              - error[subject]
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success, no content returned
      externalDocs:
        url: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/error_reports.html
components:
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: 'Canvas OAuth2 access token sent as "Authorization: Bearer <token>". See https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.oauth.html'
    oauth2:
      type: oauth2
      description: Canvas OAuth2. See https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.oauth.html and https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.oauth_endpoints.html
      flows:
        authorizationCode:
          authorizationUrl: https://canvas.instructure.com/login/oauth2/auth
          tokenUrl: https://canvas.instructure.com/login/oauth2/token
          refreshUrl: https://canvas.instructure.com/login/oauth2/token
          scopes: {}
externalDocs:
  description: Canvas LMS REST API Documentation
  url: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/
x-generated-from: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/api-docs.json
x-provenance:
  method: derived
  derived_by: API Evangelist enrichment pipeline (Swagger 1.2 -> OpenAPI 3.1 conversion)
  source: openapi/_original/swagger-1.2/*.json (144 verbatim first-party Swagger 1.2 documents)
  source_url: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/api-docs.json
  fetched: '2026-09-05'
  http_status: 200