apitoolkit-flask 1.0.3

A Flask SDK for Apitoolkit integration

Flask SDK

APIToolkit Flask SDK is a middleware that can be used to monitor HTTP requests, report errors and monitor outgoing requests. It is provides additional functionalities on top of the open telemetry instrumentation which creates a custom span for each request capturing details about the request including request, response bodies, headers, and more.

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Table of Contents

• Installation
• Setup Open Telemetry
• Configuration
• Contributing and Help
• License

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Installation

Kindly run the command below to install the apitoolkit django sdks and necessary opentelemetry packages:

pip install apitoolkit-flask opentelemetry-distro opentelemetry-exporter-otlp
opentelemetry-bootstrap -a install

Setup Open Telemetry

Setting up open telemetry allows you to send traces, metrics and logs to the APIToolkit platform. To setup open telemetry, you need to configure the following environment variables:

OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT="http://otelcol.apitoolkit.io:4317"
OTEL_SERVICE_NAME="my-service" # Specifies the name of the service.
OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES="at-project-key={ENTER_YOUR_API_KEY_HERE}" # Adds your API KEY to the resource.
OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_PROTOCOL="grpc" #Specifies the protocol to use for the OpenTelemetry exporter.

Then run the command below to start your server with opentelemetry instrumented:

opentelemetry-instrument flask run --app app

APItoolkit Django Configuration

After setting up open telemetry, you can now configure the apitoolkit django middleware. Next, initialize APItoolkit in your application's entry point (e.g., main.py), like so:

from flask import Flask
from apitoolkit_flask import APIToolkit

app = Flask(__name__)

# Initialize APItoolkit
apitoolkit = APIToolkit(
    service_name = "my-service",
    capture_request_body = True,
    capture_response_body = True,
)

@app.before_request
def before_request():
    apitoolkit.beforeRequest()

@app.after_request
def after_request(response):
    apitoolkit.afterRequest(response)
    return response
# END Initialize APItoolkit

@app.route('/hello', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def sample_route():
    return {"Hello": "World"}

app.run(debug=True)

[!NOTE]

The {ENTER_YOUR_API_KEY_HERE} demo string should be replaced with the API key generated from the APItoolkit dashboard.

[!IMPORTANT]

To learn more configuration options (redacting fields, error reporting, outgoing requests, etc.), please read this SDK documentation.

Contributing and Help

To contribute to the development of this SDK or request help from the community and our team, kindly do any of the following:

• Read our Contributors Guide.
• Join our community Discord Server.
• Create a new issue in this repository.

License

This repository is published under the MIT license.

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