Websocket support

[dignifiedquire]

I wanted to ask if there are any plans to support websockets, especially primus and sockjs. Nearly all our node based servers do some kind of socket based communication and without support for websockets this agent becomes nearly useless :(

[maziyarpanahi]

I would like to have that kind of support for those products and also Socket.io as so many people have been using it for a long time. It is a good suggestion, I second it.

[othiym23]

Hi! This is a very commonly requested feature, so you're not alone. Websockets, being session-based, presume a very different performance model than transactional HTTP requests. As such, New Relic is likely to roll out support for websockets in many tiny little pieces -- number of sockets opened / closed over time, event throughput, etc -- before we tackle big features like session traces or integrating websockets with real user monitoring (RUM) or cross-application tracing.

Readers of this issue: your best bet, if you want websocket / long-polling / WebRTC data channel support for Node, is to contact [email protected] and to be as specific as possible about what performance problems you encounter with those technologies that you'd like New Relic to help you resolve. Adding a 👍 to this issue will not be helpful.Your detailed feedback, on the other hand, will help our product team figure out how to prioritize the various pieces of work here, and will help them make a case for bumping this work up the priority queue. Thanks!

[dignifiedquire]

@othiym23 Thanks a lot for the info. I might start taking matters into my own hands as I haven't found any solution that does provide that and the newrelic agent seems a good starting point. Any pointers where to look/to begin?

[othiym23]

@dignifiedquire most of the most useful changes will probably require changes to how New Relic conceptualizes performance data, but that's the part that will take a while. You might take a look at our plugin platform and custom dashboards if you want to start exploring options. Good luck!

[Zolmeister]

👍

[txase]

Hi folks,

As an update, we are close to releasing custom instrumentation! This will allow you to mark when transactions start and end, including websocket transactions. Look for it in a coming release.

At the same time, we are closing down support through github issues. For future issues or feature requests, please follow up with us at http://support.newrelic.com. We are better able to support you through our dedicated portal than through github issues.

Thanks!