philiprehberger-api-timer

Drop-in ASGI/WSGI middleware for endpoint timing with Server-Timing headers.

Installation

pip install philiprehberger-api-timer

Usage

ASGI (FastAPI, Starlette)

from fastapi import FastAPI
from philiprehberger_api_timer import ASGITimerMiddleware

app = FastAPI()
app.add_middleware(ASGITimerMiddleware, slow_threshold_ms=500)

WSGI (Flask, Django)

from flask import Flask
from philiprehberger_api_timer import WSGITimerMiddleware

app = Flask(__name__)
app.wsgi_app = WSGITimerMiddleware(app.wsgi_app, slow_threshold_ms=500)

Custom Logger

import logging
from philiprehberger_api_timer import ASGITimerMiddleware

logger = logging.getLogger("my_api")
app.add_middleware(ASGITimerMiddleware, logger=logger, include_header=False)

Exclude Paths

from philiprehberger_api_timer import ASGITimerMiddleware

app.add_middleware(
    ASGITimerMiddleware,
    exclude_paths=["/health", "/metrics"],  # bypass timing entirely
)

Custom Header Name

from philiprehberger_api_timer import WSGITimerMiddleware

app.wsgi_app = WSGITimerMiddleware(app.wsgi_app, header_name="X-Request-Time")

Export to Prometheus / statsd via metric_callback

from philiprehberger_api_timer import ASGITimerMiddleware

def record(method: str, path: str, status: int, elapsed_ms: float) -> None:
    histogram.labels(method=method, path=path, status=status).observe(elapsed_ms)

app.add_middleware(ASGITimerMiddleware, metric_callback=record)

The callback fires once per non-excluded request after the response has been sent. Exceptions raised inside the callback are caught and logged so they cannot break the response.

What It Does

• Adds Server-Timing header to every response (e.g., Server-Timing: total;dur=42.5)
• Logs a WARNING for requests exceeding the slow threshold
• Zero configuration required — just add the middleware

API

Development

pip install -e .
python -m pytest tests/ -v

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License

MIT