Tracing

Tracing offers field-level performance monitoring for your GraphQL server.

Setup

Add the service provider to your config/app.php

'providers' => [
    \Nuwave\Lighthouse\Tracing\TracingServiceProvider::class,
],

Drivers

Lighthouse tracing is implemented though drivers, this allows supporting different tracing formats.

Lighthouse includes the following drivers:

• Nuwave\Lighthouse\Tracing\ApolloTracing\ApolloTracing::class (default) which implements Apollo Tracing response format (opens new window)
• Nuwave\Lighthouse\Tracing\FederatedTracing\FederatedTracing::class which implements Apollo Federated tracing (opens new window)

Federated tracing

Federated tracing driver requires google/protobuf to be installed. For better performance you can also install the protobuf php extension.