Is it possible to somehow link the 'request excecuted in background thread' with the service that spawn the thread in service flow?

[waikeat_chan]

So, let's say I have a service-flow where I know (before deployment) is like

Service A-> Service B-> Service C-> Service D.

Good thing about Dynatrace over AppMon is that, it automatically let us know is it handle by the process itself (as I understand it, the 'foreground' thread?) or it is handle by other background thread.

Right now I able to see the truth, which is

Service A-> Service B

Background Thread of Service B -> Service C ->Service D

This is such a good news for the dev and ops, but too bad not so good for management and biz.....because in the service flow I don't see 'end-to-end', but instead two broken flow.

So I am wondering is there any way that we can "link" these two "Broken" service flow together into one?

Best Regards,

Wai Keat

[Julius_Loman]

It's not generally possible without changing the code of the monitored application. Typically those "requests in background threads" are some kind of background processing jobs, doing processing from queue / stack. The other services (web requests / web services / ... ) are pushing data into the queue / stack for further processing. The background execution may happen a long time after the "front-end" request has been processed.

So without changing the code, there is no correlation id and long gaps may happen between those executions.

[waikeat_chan]

Would Custom Service a possible option to explore?

Reason being, the application just migrated from AppMon to Dynatrace Managed. Back then the transaction flow in AppMon is end-to-end; but right now in Managed the service flow is 'broken' and doesn't stitch up.

[alexandre_marl2]

Hello,

I have exactly the same issue. Our Service flow/purepath are broken as we are requesting external services inside another thread.

Our code is python and we use the amazing Python Auto instrument module to instrument our code https://github.com/dynatrace-oss/OneAgent-SDK-Python-AutoInstrumentation 

I guess it is possible but not sure how. I can change my code if needed.

Thanks,

Alexandre