How to get more granular traces?

[mr-feek]

Hi,

I'm just getting started with the datadog APM and node!

I'm using adonisjs as my framework (https://adonisjs.com/).

The dd-trace library is successfully automatically detecting incoming web requests and postgres queries, but other than that I don't seem to have any deeper visibility. I was hoping for more granular traces being automatically detected (IE see the time spent in code that my http request handlers are calling).

Is there a way to automatically have spans for functions called within my http controller, or are we supposed to be manually tracing everything? That gets complex when I'd like to see where time is spent within third party packages in my node_modules, for example.

Here's an example trace in my dashboard:

Is this the expected level of granularity from automatic instrumentation, or am I missing something?

Thanks in advance!

[schester44]

@mr-feek did you ever figure this out? I am interested as well. I'd like to see the executed functions within the request handler without manually wrapping everything in spans.

[mr-feek]

@schester44 no, but you may be able to get what you want with the DD profiling feature. That's pretty pricy, so I used an open source node profiler called clinic and was able to see where my time was being spent in third party packages easily!