Add Harakiri Use Case to WSGI based Frameworks

[smeubank]

Core or SDK?

Platform/SDK

Which part? Which one?

Python (wsgi based frameworks)

Description

Full background in this discussion:

getsentry/sentry-python#1783

Harakiri:

A feature of uWSGI that aborts workers that are serving requests for an excessively long time.

We could consider adding to docs as use case helper

Suggested Solution

Consider:

React Features

We don't neccesarrily need to provide specific support but we can suggest apporaches that may work for many users

[getsantry]

Assigning to @getsentry/support for routing, due by Tuesday, March 7th at 2:07 pm (sfo). ⏲️

[getsantry]

Routing to @getsentry/team-web-sdk-backend for triage, due by Wednesday, March 8th at 2:10 pm (sfo). ⏲️

[untitaker]

uwsgi kills the process if it takes too long. the sdk cannot instrument this unless we build something sophisticated. if we do something like "report error shortly before uwsgi kills the process", reliability of the transport is questionable imo.

you can just setup a metric alert for when there's a transaction that takes too long. you don't need to spend the user's errors quota on it. sending an error might still be nice because of the stacktrace, like ANR

[smeubank]

the sdk cannot instrument this unless we build something sophisticated

the idea is not to add some auto-instrumentation. Just add documenation about how a user could handle this if they want to. See the related discussion for how this user handled it, and there have been some blog posts. It is more about having a section in the docs to help guide users who may have similar wants. The user must set it up themselves but we can save them from searching around to figure it out

you can just setup a metric alert

this could also be in the page for example

[cleptric]

@antonpirker You may add this to our backlog.

[antonpirker]

No, it is not that important yet.

[github-actions]

This issue has gone three weeks without activity. In another week, I will close it.

But! If you comment or otherwise update it, I will reset the clock, and if you label it Status: Backlog or Status: In Progress, I will leave it alone ... forever!

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