apm-agent-nodejs vs require-in-the-middle

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apm-agent-nodejs		require-in-the-middle
	Project
5	Mentions	2
565	Stars	157
0.4%	Growth	1.9%
9.6	Activity	5.0
5 days ago	Latest Commit	8 days ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License	License	MIT License

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apm-agent-nodejs

Posts with mentions or reviews of apm-agent-nodejs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2020-12-07.

How to auto-instrument your applications
1 project | dev.to | 2 Jan 2024

Most popular packages are auto-instrumented, and you can take a look on all supported modules here
A shallow dive into auto-instrumenting Node.js applications with Elastic APM
9 projects | dev.to | 7 Dec 2020

The Redis instrumentation wraps the RedisClient.prototype.internal_send_command method so that any new clients will automatically start spans before sending any commands.

require-in-the-middle

Posts with mentions or reviews of require-in-the-middle. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2020-12-07.

A shallow dive into auto-instrumenting Node.js applications with Elastic APM
9 projects | dev.to | 7 Dec 2020

Of course, in the real thing, there's a lot more, like caching, resolving module paths, and handling race conditions. If you'd like to read more about the module system, the Node.js docs are pretty detailed. I've also written a bit about some testing libraries that hook into the Node.js module system. And here's an example of someone else hooking into require.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing apm-agent-nodejs and require-in-the-middle you can also consider the following projects:

appmetrics - Node Application Metrics provides a foundational infrastructure for collecting resource and performance monitoring data for Node.js-based applications.

zipkin-js - Zipkin instrumentation for Node.js and browsers

jaeger-ui - Web UI for Jaeger

opentracing-javascript - OpenTracing API for Javascript (both Node and browser). 🛑 This library is DEPRECATED! https://github.com/opentracing/specification/issues/163

beeline-nodejs - Legacy instrumentation for node.js applications with Honeycomb

dora-metrics - Small backend project to calculate DORA Metrics

apm-server - APM Server

apm-agent-dotnet - Elastic APM .NET Agent