Send heroku router stats like in other languages

[sylvinus]

If I'm not mistaken, the Node.js agent doesn't support frontend queueing stats like the Ruby one, via the x-request-start header.

That would be extremely helpful to debug heroku issues!

Thanks,

[othiym23]

We're discussing this right now, and we'll be adding this somewhere between soon and very soon. Thanks for bringing this up!

[sylvinus]

That's great, thanks a lot! Will definitely candidate it if you need beta testers !

[tehnrd]

Agreed this is needed.

We have a simple and stable app that has very consistent app server response times. So while the app server looks like its performing great we really have no idea how long requests are taking because we have no insight into how long they were in the router queue before they hit our app. This makes if very difficult to scale appropriately.

[pwmckenna]

👍

[tehnrd]

Looks like this was added in 1.8.1. I haven't be able to test it yet. https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/release-notes/agent-release-notes/nodejs-release-notes/node-agent-181

[tehnrd]

Just updated and it's working beautifully.

[groundwater]

@tehnrd excellent!