Spring Boot GraphQL Tutorial #25 - Request Tracing

Veröffentlicht am: 11 Oktober 2020
auf dem Kanal: Philip Starritt

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In a traditional REST API, it is common to add percentile response time monitoring on the URL level. In graphql, things are slightly different. All requests go via one endpoint, /graphql. Placing a percentile on the HTTP URL would not give us any useful information. So how do we identify slow resolvers and bottlenecks?

One method is to add request tracing to your resolvers/datafetchers, dataloaders and fields. This tracing will record important information such as the execution time. This data can then be used to identify slow revolvers that need tuned.

Although, beware If a resolver throws an exception, its child resolvers will not execute - therefore you may have slightly misleading metrics / missing data for that period of time (until parent resolver is not throwing exceptions).

We can enable the TracingInstrumentation bean by setting the graphql.servlet.tracingEnabled: true.
This will record the execution time of our resolvers/field methods. This data will be placed into the graphql response object and visible via graphql playground.

Beware in production, I have seen this add considerable latency to response times in high-throughput APIs. You might want to have a play about first... or do some sampling.

In the next video I introduce a multi-threaded safe correlation_id log :)

See you in the next video!

Cheers!
Philip

GraphQL Instrumentation: https://www.graphql-java.com/document...

Spring Boot GraphQL Java: https://github.com/graphql-java-kicks...

Good article on graphql paypal instrumentation: / graphql-instrumenting-your-api-and-unlocki...

Apollo tracing: https://github.com/apollographql/apol...

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