[Alpha] Configure the Splunk RUM Flutter agent
Configure Splunk RUM instrumentation for your Flutter applications.
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AgentConfiguration
You can configure the Splunk RUM Flutter agent to add custom attributes, adapt the instrumentation to your environment and application, customize sampling, and more.
To configure the Splunk RUM Flutter agent, pass the settings to the agent in an AgentConfiguration object. The following example shows how to configure this object with your Splunk RUM token, Splunk realm, application name, and deployment environment:
SplunkOtelFlutter.instance.install(
agentConfiguration: AgentConfiguration(
endpointConfiguration: EndpointConfiguration.forRum(
realm: 'Your realm',
rumAccessToken: 'Your app name',
),
appName: 'Your app name',
deploymentEnvironment: 'Your dev env',
),
);
General settings
Use the following settings to configure the Splunk RUM Flutter agent's AgentConfiguration object:
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
appName (required) | Sets the application name. |
appVersion | Sets the application version. |
deferredUntilForeground | Defer telemetry until the app is brought to the foreground. Default: Android only. |
deploymentEnvironment (required) | Environment for all the spans produced by the application. For example, dev, test, or prod. |
enableDebugLogging | Activates debug logging. Default: false |
endpoint | Sets the configuration needed to export data to an endpoint. There are two required inputs:
|
globalAttributes | Attributes to append to every span collected. For an example, see Manage global attributes. |
instrumentedProcessName | Compares application ID and process name. If they are the same, the application is visible to user. If not, it is the background process. Android only. |
session | Configured by
|
user | Configured by
|
Instrumentation module settings
You can configure the following modules in the Splunk RUM Flutter agent:
- HTTP instrumentation module
- Navigation detection module (detection of screen names)
- Crash reporting module
- Application not responding module (Android only)
- Slow rendering module
- Interaction detection module
- Application lifecycle monitoring module
isEnabled attribute to true). All modules except navigation detection are activated by default. HTTP instrumentation module
- Automatic network instrumentation
The Splunk RUM Flutter agent supports automatic instrumentation for the
OkHttpandHttpURLConnectionHTTP clients for Android.Okhttp3(Android only)This instrumentation automatically modifies the code at build time and adds the necessary hooks for tracing network requests made through the
OkHttp3APIs. To activate this, add the following plugin to your Android application:SplunkOtelFlutter.instance.install( moduleConfigurations: [ OkHttp3AutoModuleConfiguration( isEnabled: true, capturedRequestHeaders: [], capturedResponseHeaders: [], ), ], );Note: If you don't add the plugin to the application at build time, the runtimeOkHttp3AutoModuleConfigurationwill have no effect.HttpUrlConnection(Android only)This instrumentation automatically modifies the code at build time and adds the necessary hooks for tracing network requests made via the
URLConnection,HttpURLConnection, orHttpsURLConnectionAPIs. To enable this, add the following plugin to your Android application.SplunkOtelFlutter.instance.install( moduleConfigurations: [ HttpUrlModuleConfiguration( isEnabled: true, capturedRequestHeaders: [], capturedResponseHeaders: [], ), ], );Note: If you don't add the plugin to the application at build time, the runtimeHttpUrlModuleConfigurationwill have no effect.Note:Note: There is currently an open issue with Google that may result in a build failure when an application is built with these plugins. It's related to the Jetifier. The issue is tracked in the Google Issue Tracker and can be resolved by setting the
enableJetifierflag tofalsein yourgradle.propertiesfile. For example,android.enableJetifier=false
- Manual OkHttp instrumentation (Android only)
Not available in the alpha release.
- Capture request and response headers (Android only)
You can opt-in to capture certain request and response headers using the HTTP instrumentation module. If those headers are available, the resulting span will contain
http.request.header.keyandhttp.response.header.keyattributes with the header value(s).SplunkOtelFlutter.instance.install( moduleConfigurations: [ HttpUrlModuleConfiguration( isEnabled: true, capturedRequestHeaders: [ 'authorization', 'content-type', 'user-agent', ], capturedResponseHeaders: [ 'content-type', 'cache-control', ], ), OkHttp3AutoModuleConfiguration( isEnabled: true, capturedRequestHeaders: [ 'authorization', 'accept', ], capturedResponseHeaders: [ 'content-type', 'content-length', ], ), ], );- Automatic
URLSessioninstrumentation (iOS only) Configure automatic instrumentation for
URLSessionclients to make HTTP network requests.Specify patterns for NSRegularExpression to exclude requests from instrumentation as in the example below.
SplunkOtelFlutter.instance.install( moduleConfigurations: [ NetworkInstrumentationModuleConfiguration( isEnabled: true, ignoreURLs: [ RegularExpression( pattern: "123", options: [ RegexOption.allowCommentsAndWhitespace, RegexOption.anchorsMatchLines, ], ), ], ), ], );
Crash reporting module
The crash reporting module is included in the new Splunk RUM Flutter agent and is activated by default. No additional steps are needed to activate crash reporting. If you want to deactivate crash reporting, see an example below on settings.
SplunkOtelFlutter.instance.install(
moduleConfigurations: [
CrashReportsModuleConfiguration(isEnabled: false)
],
);Application not responding module (Android only)
Application not responding (ANR) occurs when an Android application's main thread is blocked for more than five seconds, preventing it from processing user input. The detection of ANRs is activated by default. You can deactivate it by setting AnrModuleConfiguration to false as shown in the examples below.
SplunkOtelFlutter.instance.install(
moduleConfigurations: [
AnrModuleConfiguration(isEnabled: false),
],
);Slow rendering module
The slow rendering module is activated by default. You can configure its frame detection interval as shown in the examples below.
SplunkOtelFlutter.instance.install(
moduleConfigurations: [
SlowRenderingModuleConfiguration(isEnabled: false,
interval: const Duration(seconds: 1)
),
],
);Interaction detection module
Interaction detection is enabled by default. You can deactivate it by setting the isEnabled parameter as in the examples below.
SplunkOtelFlutter.instance.install(
moduleConfigurations: [
InteractionsModuleConfiguration(isEnabled: false),
],
);Application lifecycle monitoring module
The application lifecycle monitoring module is included in the new Splunk RUM Flutter agent and is activated by default. To deactivate application lifecycle monitoring, see examples below.
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