boto3 should provide a way to obtain AWS RequestIds

[thanatos]

Every time I've filed a bug w/ AWS support, even for the this-is-obviously-trivially-broken-on-your-side bug, they always want a request ID.

AFAICT looking at the code, the only place that boto3 reports the request ID is when the request as a whole gets logged; this is really hard to work with, since the response body is huge.

If the request ID were passed as extra data to the logging call, I could extract it via a custom handler. Or some sort of callback system, etc.

[kyleknap]

So one way to reliably get the request ID is by accessing the RequestMetadata for any client request:

In [1]: import boto3

In [2]: c = boto3.client('ec2')

In [3]: resp = c.describe_regions()

In [4]: resp['ResponseMetadata']
Out[4]: 
{'HTTPHeaders': {'content-type': 'text/xml;charset=UTF-8',
  'date': 'Wed, 21 Jun 2017 16:11:20 GMT',
  'server': 'AmazonEC2',
  'transfer-encoding': 'chunked',
  'vary': 'Accept-Encoding'},
 'HTTPStatusCode': 200,
 'RequestId': '6f86084a-62db-4ecc-ad9d-6592c2f51dd8',
 'RetryAttempts': 0}

and in this request metadata you will have access to the request id for any client calls you make.

However, this not easily accessible through the logs as you pointed out nor through the resource interface, which I think would be useful to have as well. Marking as feature request.

[dejonghe]

I had to turn this on today. Try: boto3.set_stream_logger(name='botocore',level=10)

[aBurmeseDev]

Hi @thanatos, I'd recommend to check out this doc on how to log Request IDs and this doc also provides a good example of how to handle error responses. Please let me know if that accomplishes the goal here!

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