@haathie/postgraphile-otel

Postgraphile OTEL Plugin

OpenTelemetry plugin for PostGraphile, providing tracing capabilities for GraphQL requests. This plugin traces:

• Errors in GraphQL requests
• Operation Planning
• Step Execution

Installation & Usage

Install:

npm i @haathie/postgraphile-otel

Add to your PostGraphile config:

import { OTELPlugin } from '@haathie/postgraphile-otel';

const preset: GraphileConfig.Preset = {
	...otherOptions,
	plugins: [
		OTELPlugin,
		...otherPlugins,
	],
}

Of course, this assumes you have OpenTelemetry set up in your application. If you don't, you can refer to the OpenTelemetry documentation for guidance on how to set it up. For reference, you can refer to our example application's tracing

An example trace looks like this in Jaeger: