Configurable web transaction name

[giladmaya]

I'm using Flask framework, and the web transaction name is automatically determined by callable_name of function.
As a result, stakeholders that access NewRelic dashboards cannot understand which endpoint is related to the transaction.

I would like to have the option to configure the web transaction name according to the rule, which more informative and is known by other stakeholders.

I've considered using set_transaction_name but we don't use new relic agent directly in our code, and doing so would not be as clean as having it configured as part of agent initialisation.

It's a feature that we must have in order to be able to handle production failures rapidly (currently we have to lookup the relevant function in our code base which wastes precious time)

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[billcrook]

Supporting this in starlette would be nice as well.

[billcrook]

Looks like encode/starlette#685 would make this a bit easier.

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[hmstepanek]

Hi! Thanks for submitting this feature request. Just so I make sure I understand what you are asking for here:

You would like the transaction name to be the endpoint name/path instead of the callable name so instead of something like
module:function it would be something like api/v1/endpoint.

AND

You would like this to be configurable via something like transaction_name.set_name = 'endpoint' export NEW_RELIC_TRANSACTION_NAME_SET_NAME=endpoint for example in the agent config file or as an environment variable respectively so that all transaction names would be set as their endpoint/path names instead of their callable names.

Is that correct?

[billcrook]

You would like the transaction name to be the endpoint name/path instead of the callable name so instead of something like module:function it would be something like api/v1/endpoint.

Sounds correct to me. IIRC, this is how other newrelic agents (java/node) report transaction names OOTB.

[hmstepanek]

Posting some additional relevant research/info for this feature request:

The Java agent optionally supports transaction naming based on endpoint when enable_auto_transaction_naming is set to False. There is a cautionary statement at the bottom of this setting about metric grouping issues. Note, in order to distinguish between the same api endpoint being called with a different method the method is included after the api endpoint path name: WebTransaction/RestWebService/customers/{id} (GET).

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[Ak-x]

Hello @billcrook if you would like to submit a PR our team would be happy to review it. This is not currently on our roadmap.

[billcrook]

While I appreciate the opportunity, I must respectfully decline to offer pro-bono services for a publicly-traded company. I'll be exploring other Python-friendly APM options. Thanks.