diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
index e4139f44..3a4e2871 100644
--- a/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -28,10 +28,12 @@ const pumpify = require('pumpify');
 import * as streamEvents from 'stream-events';
 import * as through from 'through2';
 import * as middleware from './middleware';
+import {detectServiceContext} from './metadata';
 import {StackdriverHttpRequest as HttpRequest} from './http-request';
 
 export {middleware};
 export {HttpRequest};
+export {detectServiceContext};
 
 const PKG = require('../../package.json');
 const v2 = require('./v2');
diff --git a/src/metadata.ts b/src/metadata.ts
index 69bf3f83..609db4f5 100644
--- a/src/metadata.ts
+++ b/src/metadata.ts
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ import * as gcpMetadata from 'gcp-metadata';
 import {GCPEnv, GoogleAuth} from 'google-auth-library';
 import * as pify from 'pify';
 
+import {ServiceContext} from './index';
+
 const readFile = pify(fs.readFile);
 
 function zoneFromQualifiedZone(qualified: string): string|undefined {
@@ -153,3 +155,34 @@ export async function getDefaultResource(auth: GoogleAuth) {
       return getGlobalDescriptor();
   }
 }
+
+/**
+ * For logged errors, users can provide a service context. This enables errors
+ * to be picked up Stackdriver Error Reporting. For more information see
+ * [this guide]{@link
+ * https://cloud.google.com/error-reporting/docs/formatting-error-messages} and
+ * the [official documentation]{@link
+ * https://cloud.google.com/error-reporting/reference/rest/v1beta1/ServiceContext}.
+ */
+export async function detectServiceContext(auth: GoogleAuth):
+    Promise<ServiceContext|null> {
+  const env = await auth.getEnv();
+  switch (env) {
+    case GCPEnv.APP_ENGINE:
+      return {
+        service: process.env.GAE_SERVICE || process.env.GAE_MODULE_NAME,
+        version: process.env.GAE_VERSION || process.env.GAE_MODULE_VERSION,
+      };
+    case GCPEnv.CLOUD_FUNCTIONS:
+      return {
+        service: process.env.FUNCTION_NAME,
+      };
+    // One Kubernetes we probably need to use the pod-name to describe the
+    // service. Currently there isn't a universal way to acquire the pod
+    // name from within the pod.
+    case GCPEnv.KUBERNETES_ENGINE:
+    case GCPEnv.COMPUTE_ENGINE:
+    default:
+      return null;
+  }
+}
diff --git a/test/metadata.ts b/test/metadata.ts
index 7bc6ec7a..2d157fd7 100644
--- a/test/metadata.ts
+++ b/test/metadata.ts
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import {GCPEnv} from 'google-auth-library';
 import * as proxyquire from 'proxyquire';
 
 import assertRejects = require('assert-rejects');
+import {detectServiceContext} from '../src/metadata';
 
 let instanceOverride;
 const fakeGcpMetadata = {
@@ -360,4 +361,85 @@ describe('metadata', () => {
       });
     });
   });
+
+  describe('detectServiceContext', () => {
+    it('should return the correct descriptor for App Engine', async () => {
+      const GAE_MODULE_NAME = 'gae-module-name';
+      const GAE_MODULE_VERSION = 'gae-module-version';
+      const GAE_SERVICE = 'gae-service';
+      const GAE_VERSION = 'gae-version';
+      process.env.GAE_MODULE_NAME = GAE_MODULE_NAME;
+      process.env.GAE_MODULE_VERSION = GAE_MODULE_VERSION;
+      process.env.GAE_SERVICE = GAE_SERVICE;
+      process.env.GAE_VERSION = GAE_VERSION;
+      const fakeAuth = {
+        async getEnv() {
+          return GCPEnv.APP_ENGINE;
+        }
+      };
+
+      const sc1 = await metadata.detectServiceContext(fakeAuth);
+      assert.deepStrictEqual(sc1, {
+        service: GAE_SERVICE,
+        version: GAE_VERSION,
+      });
+
+      delete process.env.GAE_SERVICE;
+      const sc2 = await metadata.detectServiceContext(fakeAuth);
+      assert.deepStrictEqual(sc2, {
+        service: GAE_MODULE_NAME,
+        version: GAE_VERSION,
+      });
+
+      delete process.env.GAE_VERSION;
+      const sc3 = await metadata.detectServiceContext(fakeAuth);
+      assert.deepStrictEqual(sc3, {
+        service: GAE_MODULE_NAME,
+        version: GAE_MODULE_VERSION,
+      });
+    });
+
+    it('should return the correct descriptor for Cloud Functions', async () => {
+      const FUNCTION_NAME = process.env.FUNCTION_NAME = 'function-name';
+
+      const fakeAuth = {
+        async getEnv() {
+          return GCPEnv.CLOUD_FUNCTIONS;
+        }
+      };
+
+      const sc1 = await metadata.detectServiceContext(fakeAuth);
+      assert.deepStrictEqual(sc1, {service: FUNCTION_NAME});
+    });
+
+    it('should return null on GKE', async () => {
+      const fakeAuth = {
+        async getEnv() {
+          return GCPEnv.KUBERNETES_ENGINE;
+        }
+      };
+      const serviceContext = await metadata.detectServiceContext(fakeAuth);
+      assert.strictEqual(serviceContext, null);
+    });
+
+    it('should return null on GCE', async () => {
+      const fakeAuth = {
+        async getEnv() {
+          return GCPEnv.COMPUTE_ENGINE;
+        }
+      };
+      const serviceContext = await metadata.detectServiceContext(fakeAuth);
+      assert.strictEqual(serviceContext, null);
+    });
+
+    it('should return null elsewhere', async () => {
+      const fakeAuth = {
+        async getEnv() {
+          return GCPEnv.NONE;
+        }
+      };
+      const serviceContext = await metadata.detectServiceContext(fakeAuth);
+      assert.strictEqual(serviceContext, null);
+    });
+  });
 });