Browser support

[stephen]

What parts are missing for this package to work in the browser? Is there a plan overall for traces from frontends?

Our datadog agents aren't exposed to the public internet, so we're thinking of having a small ingestion proxy that forwards spans. I think that means we'd want to plug in a custom write method or similar.

[rochdev]

This is not planned at the moment as we are focusing on having feature complete Node support.

However, to answer your question and for future reference:

• Ability to run the test suite in the browser (zuul?)
• Ability to run benchmarks in the browser
• Browser platform
• Support for browser plugins The instrumenter is not compatible with platforms other than Node #63
• Support for bundlers with CommonJS / AMD
• Build script to generate a distribution that can be loaded locally or from a CDN
• Some kind of interceptor system to support backend authentication
• Minified and optionally GZip distributions
• Sourcemaps
• Documentation

[Paskalouis]

Hi,

Is there any update regarding this feature request ?
Now I stumbled upon working on integrating datadog into the frontend.
In this case, I am using Vue. I see another similar issue (#233) about integrating to React/ReactNative .

Thanks !

[rochdev]

I don't have any updates at the moment unfortunately.

However, we have recently released our RUM product in private beta.

@Paskalouis Would that fit your use case?

[timiyay]

What is the status of browser support for this package?

We've just started assessing the Real User Monitoring (RUM) Traces feature, which uses this library to correlate RUM requests with APM requests. This implies that dd-trace will be deployed to a browser.

[rochdev]

@timiyay While dd-trace has beta support for the browser with limited functionality, it is indeed currently required to correlate RUM and APM. We are however working on a change that should remove this requirement in the next few weeks. Once the change lands, you will only need to add dd-trace in the browser if you want to do actual tracing, but not for simply correlating RUM and APM.

[rochdev]

Closing as browser support has been moved from APM to RUM. Tracing can be enabled on the browser SDK with the allowedTracingOrigins configuration options.