OpencensusPhoenix

Phoenix 1.5

Phoenix has abandoned instrumenters in 1.5 in favour of the :telemetry library.

Simply ensure that the following code runs while your app is starting up (eg, in the Application.start/2 callback):

# lib/my_app_web/endpoint.ex check this file for the event_prefix
defmodule MyAppWeb.Endpoint do
  ...
  plug Plug.Telemetry, event_prefix: [:my_app, :endpoint]
  ...
end

# lib/my_app/application.ex, add this line using event_prefix from above:
def start(_type, _args) do
  ...
  OpencensusPhoenix.Telemetry.setup([:my_app, :endpoint])
  ...
end

Phoenix 1.4

Phoenix instrumenter callback module to automatically create OpenCensus spans for Phoenix Controller and View information.

Simply configure your Phoenix Endpoint to use this library as one of its instrumenters:

config :my_app, MyAppWeb.Endpoint,
  # ... existing config ...
  instrumenters: [OpencensusPhoenix.Instrumenter]

Resource Names

Prior to Phoenix 1.4, the "route info" was not available to plugs. As such instead of using the http route as the resource name, we use the controller + action combination. For example:

• Pre 1.4: MyApp.Posts.index
• Version 1.4 or greater: /posts