From aeb8f05865f9cda530b4914e947aab8eada2e29d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joseph Kruskal <99559985+kruskall@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 13:36:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix: propagate and handle metadata errors (#254)

metadata processing errors were being logged and ignored
leading a nil metadata.
---
 apm-lambda-extension/apmproxy/apmserver.go | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/apm-lambda-extension/apmproxy/apmserver.go b/apm-lambda-extension/apmproxy/apmserver.go
index b48de5a8..c0ab00e1 100644
--- a/apm-lambda-extension/apmproxy/apmserver.go
+++ b/apm-lambda-extension/apmproxy/apmserver.go
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ func (c *Client) ForwardApmData(ctx context.Context, metadataContainer *Metadata
 			if metadataContainer.Metadata == nil {
 				metadata, err := ProcessMetadata(agentData)
 				if err != nil {
-					extension.Log.Errorf("Error extracting metadata from agent payload %v", err)
+					return fmt.Errorf("failed to extract metadata from agent payload %w", err)
 				}
 				metadataContainer.Metadata = metadata
 			}