Vince Foley

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Investigate use of seq_trace label for span context

I think doing some benchmarks is a great idea. Based on my experience, I suspect that leveraging the VM to pass context will be plenty fast, likely faster than manually...

Investigate use of seq_trace label for span context

I did some benchmarking documented here: https://github.com/binaryseed/seq_trace_intro/issues/1 There were pretty minimal differences in overhead (on the order of 0-2 us on my very old macbook air)

`new_relic_phoenix` is deprecated; is this package being deprecated too for similar reasons?

Yes, the same thing will happen, but I have no timeline at the moment

~100mb memory usage when idle

The `ErlangTrace` GenServer is responsible for tracking cross process work, so the application must be doing work that is spawning processes which are being tracked by the agent. The GenServer...

Dumb question about crashes

You also need to make sure the agent is started. If you use a mix task, you can `use NewRelic.Instrumented.Mix.Task `... see https://github.com/newrelic/elixir_agent?tab=readme-ov-file#pre-instrumented-modules It ensures the agent is started and...

No logs shown in NewRelic when using Logger in console

Are you seeing this in a running application or just in the console?