Capture All AJAX Requests

[rr0214]

Problem

Customers would like all Ajax Requests available to query in Insights. The confusion lies when just a subset of ajax requests are captured as event data, the rest are not-so-easy-to-query aggregate metric data.

Ajax calls are currently captured as events (AjaxRequest) _ only _when the call happens as part of a browser interaction that is captured. Since out of the box we capture only interactions that are classified as route changes, many ajax calls do not get recorded as events.

Ajax requests that are stored as event data are the starting point for Distributed Tracing, so by not representing all requests in the system, we lose some visibility.

What we need to do

We need to capture all AJAX requests in a way that customers can facet and filter by AJAX and not missing AJAX requests when using DT

The goal of this effort is to consolidate all AJAX requests into one data collection type, that is queryable via Insights and a seamless experience for our customers.

Proposed Solutions

All ajax requests as events (which come with storage concerns)

Ajax requests as dimensional metrics, which likely requires some rework for DT? This is likely the better candidate.

BROWAGENT-50

Related Operational Links

• Koan Key Result (FY22 June)

[smblee]

I have raised an issue regarding New Relic not being able to capture AJAX requests in a fetch library i was using ky, but it seems more like a issue of Newrelic browser client. You can see my notes here: sindresorhus/ky#345

[lukeupup]

Thank you @smblee for debugging on this. We are also using ky and facing exact the same problem. Considering that ky is now the most popular request utility based on fetch (weekly download on npm is over 400k), we really want New Relic can fix it asap.

[aubreymasten]

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