Enabling Advanced Request Tracing may pose a potential security risk. For this reason, we have implemented a mechanism to ensure secure communication from Cosmo Studio to your routers. This allows to debug routers in productionA connection with the controlplane is required and a router with version 0.42.3 or higher.
Advanced Request Tracing (ART) renders the Execution Plan including verbose information about how it was resolved as a JSON and adds it to the GraphQL response in the “extensions” part of the response using the “trace” key. You get the following information from ART
  • planning timings, e.g. how long it took to generate an execution plan
  • the general structure of the execution plan
  • the types of fetches (load operations) the Router does, like parallel, serial, entity, batch entity, etc.
  • what actual requests are being sent to the Subgraphs
  • what data was used to render the input for a load operation
  • the rendered input of a load operation
  • the output of a load operation
  • the timings, like latency, of a load operation
All of this information can be quite useful to fully understand how the Router resolves a request and why it might be slow or behave unexpectedly.

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Configuration

For convenience, Advanced Request Tracing is enabled by default. When starting the Router, a warning indicates if the feature is active. To fully disable Advanced Request Tracing, set the following environment variable: 
ENGINE_ENABLE_REQUEST_TRACING=false

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Request Parameters

To use Advanced Request Tracing, you need to either use Request Headers or Query Parameters. To disable ART, simply omit the “X-WG-Trace” Header or the “wg_trace” Query Parameter.

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Headers

You must set the following Header to enable tracing 
X-WG-Trace=true

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Query Parameter

It’s also possible to use Query Parameters 
POST http://example.com/graphql?wg_trace=true

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Optional Arguments

Other (optional) arguments that are available:
  • exclude_planner_stats (exclude planner timings in the trace)
  • exclude_raw_input_data (exclude the raw input data for a loader)
  • exclude_input (exclude the rendered input data for a loader)
  • exclude_output (exclude the output of a loader)
  • exclude_load_stats (exclude load stats like latency)
  • enable_predictable_debug_timings (useful for debugging, makes timings constant)

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Examples

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Enable Advanced Tracing but exclude planner stats and input via Header

X-WG-Trace=exclude_planner_stats,exclude_input

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Enable Advanced Tracing but exclude output via Query Parameters

POST http://example.com/graphql?wg_trace=exclude_output

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Development

For security reasons, we don’t enable Advanced Request Tracing (ART) by default but you can enable it by setting the router environment variable DEV_MODE to true and using the following header in the playground: 
{
  "X-WG-TRACE" : "true"
}