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Tracing

Tracing is automatically enabled for all HTTP requests. You can view the trace endpoint and obtain basic information about the last 100 requests:

[{
	"timestamp": 1394343677415,
	"info": {
		"method": "GET",
		"path": "/trace",
		"headers": {
			"request": {
				"Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8",
				"Connection": "keep-alive",
				"Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate",
				"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 Gecko/Firefox",
				"Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.5",
				"Cookie": "_ga=GA1.1.827067509.1390890128; ..."
				"Authorization": "Basic ...",
				"Host": "localhost:8080"
			},
			"response": {
				"Strict-Transport-Security": "max-age=31536000 ; includeSubDomains",
				"X-Application-Context": "application:8080",
				"Content-Type": "application/json;charset=UTF-8",
				"status": "200"
			}
		}
	}
},{
	"timestamp": 1394343684465,
	...
}]

The following are included in the trace by default:

Name Description

Name	Description
Request Headers	Headers from the request.
Response Headers	Headers from the response.
Cookies	`Cookie` from request headers and `Set-Cookie` from response headers.
Errors	The error attributes (if any).
Time Taken	The time taken to service the request in milliseconds.

Request Headers

Headers from the request.

Response Headers

Headers from the response.

Cookie from request headers and Set-Cookie from response headers.

Errors

The error attributes (if any).

Time Taken

The time taken to service the request in milliseconds.

Custom tracing

If you need to trace additional events you can inject a TraceRepository into your Spring beans. The add method accepts a single Map structure that will be converted to JSON and logged.

By default an InMemoryTraceRepository will be used that stores the last 100 events. You can define your own instance of the InMemoryTraceRepository bean if you need to expand the capacity. You can also create your own alternative TraceRepository implementation if needed.