pkerrigan\xray
A basic PHP instrumentation library for AWS X-Ray
Until Amazon releases an official PHP SDK for AWS X-Ray this library allows you to add basic instrumentation to PHP applications and report traces via the AWS X-Ray daemon.
Please note that no automatic instrumentation of popular libraries is provided. In order to instrument SQL queries, HTTP requests and/or other services you'll be required to create your own wrappers which start and end tracing segments as appropriate.
Installation
The recommended way to install this library is using Composer:
$ composer require pkerrigan/xray ^1.2
Usage
Starting a trace
The Trace
class represents the top-level of an AWS X-Ray trace, and can function as a singleton for easy access from anywhere in your code, including before frameworks and dependency injectors have been initialised.
You should start a trace as early as possible in your request:
use Pkerrigan\Xray\Trace;
Trace::getInstance()
->setTraceHeader($_SERVER['HTTP_X_AMZN_TRACE_ID'] ?? null)
->setName('app.example.com')
->setUrl($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])
->setMethod($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'])
->begin();
Adding a segment to a trace
You can add as many segments to your trace as necessary, including nested segments. To add an SQL query to your trace, you'd do the following:
Trace::getInstance()
->getCurrentSegment()
->addSubsegment(
(new SqlSegment())
->setName('db.example.com')
->setDatabaseType('PostgreSQL')
->setQuery($mySanitisedQuery) // Make sure to remove sensitive data before passing in a query
->begin()
);
// Run your query here
Trace::getInstance()
->getCurrentSegment()
->end();
The getCurrentSegment()
method will always return the most recently opened segment, allowing you to nest as deeply as necessary.
Ending a trace
At the end of your request, you'll want to end and submit your trace. By default only submitting via the AWS X-Ray daemon is supported.
Trace::getInstance()
->end()
->setResponseCode(http_response_code())
->submit(new DaemonSegmentSubmitter());
Features not yet implemented
- Exception and stack trace support
- Submission of incomplete segments