I see it's been asked before a few times with no a...

# ktor

[Michael Pearce]

I see it's been asked before a few times with no answers, but I thought I'd check to see if anyone has managed to get transaction tracing with New Relic working with Ktor? Currently all transactions are being merged into a single /NettyDispatcher transaction, because the New Relic agent doesn't have built-in framework support for ktor.

[cy]

Currently we only have very simple dropwizard metrics https://ktor.io/servers/features/metrics.html

[mp]

Probably will need to implement an interceptor that sets whatever threadlocals NR uses via the coroutine context

[mp]

perhaps with https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/coroutines/coroutine-context-and-dispatchers.html#thread-local-data

[mp]

I don’t know if NR exposes its threadlocal, though, so you may need to explicitly enter and exit a particular transaction

[mp]

At some point I’ll probably need to do that to get ktor adopted at $job since we use NR

[mp]

ping me if you beat me to it 🙂

[cy]

We don't have plans to do it since our priorities are slightly different right now but PRs are always welcome 🙂