Tracing

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

Setup

Register the service provider Nuwave\Lighthouse\Tracing\TracingServiceProvider, see registering providers in Laravel (opens new window).

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.