instana_agent 2.0.0

An Instana agent to collect statistics about sessions and HTTP requests for Flutter-based apps.

Instana agent for Flutter

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Instana agent allows Flutter apps to send monitoring data to Instana.

Installation

The Instana agent Flutter package is available via pub.dev.

You can add it to your app the same way as usual:

1. Open the pubspec.yaml file located inside the app folder, and add instana_agent: under dependencies.
2. Install it From the terminal: Run flutter pub get Or
   • From Android Studio/IntelliJ: Click Packages get in the action ribbon at the top of pubspec.yaml.
   • From VS Code: Click Get Packages located in right side of the action ribbon at the top of pubspec.yaml.

Initialization

Import package in your dart file(s):

import 'package:instana_agent/instana_agent.dart';

Stop and restart the app, if necessary

Setup Instana once as soon as possible. For example, in initState()

@override
  void initState() {
    super.initState();
    InstanaAgent.setup(key: 'YOUR-INSTANA-KEY', reportingUrl: 'YOUR-REPORTING_URL');
  }

Tracking View changes

At any point after initializing the Instana agent:

import 'package:instana_agent/instana_agent.dart';

[...]

InstanaAgent.setView('Home');

Tracking HTTP requests

At any point after initializing the Instana agent:

import 'package:instana_agent/instana_agent.dart';

[...]

InstanaAgent.startCapture(url: 'https://example.com/success', method: 'GET').then((marker) => marker
    ..responseStatusCode = 200
    ..responseSizeBody = 1000
    ..responseSizeBodyDecoded = 2400
    ..finish());

We recommend creating your own InstrumentedHttpClient extending http.BaseClient as shown in this snippet, for example:

class _InstrumentedHttpClient extends BaseClient {
   _InstrumentedHttpClient(this._inner);

   final Client _inner;

   @override
   Future<StreamedResponse> send(BaseRequest request) async {
      final Marker marker = await InstanaAgent.startCapture(url: request.url.toString(), method: request.method);

      StreamedResponse response;
      try {
         response = await _inner.send(request);
         marker
            ..responseStatusCode = response.statusCode
            ..responseSizeBody = response.contentLength
            ..backendTracingID = BackendTracingIDParser.fromHeadersMap(response.headers);
      } finally {
         await marker.finish();
      }

      return response;
   }
}

class _MyAppState extends State<MyApp> {

   [...]

   Future<void> httpRequest() async {
      final _InstrumentedHttpClient httpClient = _InstrumentedHttpClient(Client());
      final Request request = Request("GET", Uri.parse("https://www.instana.com"));
      httpClient.send(request);
   }

   [...]
}

More

The complete documentation for this package, including custom events and others can be found within Instana's public documentation page

Please also check out the Flutter example in this repository for a simple usage demonstration.