apollo-server-plugin-cloud-trace

Description

This plugin enables you add more granular tracing spans in your Google Cloud traces. Without any complex setup it is possible to instrument on a field by field basis and further enables you when integrating Cloud Trace with BigQuery to analyse usage of fields.

Getting started

Prerequisites:

• Google Cloud Trace Agent

yarn add @google-cloud/trace-agent

• Apollo Server with Koa/Express By default the trace-agent will instrument the /graphql endpoint

To get started with this plugin:

• Install the plugin

yarn add apollo-server-plugin-cloud-trace

• Integrate the plugin with your Apollo Server

import { apolloGCloudTracePlugin } from 'apollo-server-plugin-cloud-trace';
import * as GTrace from '@google-cloud/trace-agent';

const cloudTrace = GTrace.start({
    serviceContext: {
        service: 'my-service',
        version: '1.0',
    },
});

const server = new ApolloServer({
    typeDefs,
    resolvers,
    plugins: [
        apolloGCloudTracePlugin({
            tracer: cloudTrace,
        }),
    ],
});

Configuration

• $0 PluginOptions
  • $0.tracer
  • $0.prefix (optional, default 'GQL')
  • $0.addFieldValues (optional, default false)
  • $0.addFieldArguments (optional, default false)
• tracer Instance of the GCloud Tracer
• prefix Prefix used in the traces for all GraphQL spans
• addFieldValues Configures whether or not the result of field resolvers are added to traces
• addFieldArguments Configures whether or not parameters of a field resolver are added to traces