FastAPI Tracing

H.init("<YOUR_PROJECT_ID>", {
  tracingOrigins: ['localhost', 'example.myapp.com/backend'],
  networkRecording: {
    enabled: true,
    recordHeadersAndBody: true,
  },
});

Install the highlight-io python package.

Download the package from pypi and save it to your requirements. If you use a zip or s3 file upload to publish your function, you will want to make sure highlight-io is part of the build.

poetry add highlight-io

# or with pip
pip install highlight-io

Initialize the Highlight SDK.

Setup the SDK to with the FastAPI integration.

from fastapi import FastAPI

import highlight_io
from highlight_io.integrations.fastapi import FastAPIMiddleware

# `instrument_logging=True` sets up logging instrumentation.
# if you do not want to send logs or are using `loguru`, pass `instrument_logging=False`
H = highlight_io.H(
	"<YOUR_PROJECT_ID>",
	instrument_logging=True,
	service_name="my-app",
	service_version="git-sha",
	environment="production",
)

app = FastAPI()
app.add_middleware(FastAPIMiddleware)

Hit your FastAPI app.

Visit one of your pages in your browser that will make a request to the server.

from fastapi import Request

@app.get("/")
async def root(request: Request):
    return {"message": "Hello world!"}

Verify your backend traces are being recorded.

Visit the highlight traces portal and check that backend traces are coming in.

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