Chapter 54. RESTEasy Tracing Feature

Tracing feature is a way for the users of the RESTEasy to understand what's going on internally in the container when a request is processed. It's different from the pure logging system or profiling feature, which provides more general information about the request and response.

The tracing feature provides more internal states of the Jakarta RESTful Web Services container. For example, it could be able to show what filters a request is going through, or how long a request is processed and other kinds of information.

Currently it doesn't have a standard or spec to define the tracing feature, so the tracing feature is tightly coupled with the concrete Jakarta RESTful Web Services implementation itself. This chapter, discusses the design and usage of the tracing feature.

The RESTEasy tracing feature supports three logging mode:

"ALL" will enable the tracing feature. "ON_DEMAND" mode will give the control to the client side: A client can send a tracing request via HTTP header and get the tracing info back from response headers. "OFF" mode disables the tracing feature, and is the default mode.

The tracing info has three levels:

The "SUMMARY" level will emit some brief tracing information. The "TRACE" level will produce more detailed tracing information, and the "VERBOSE" level will generate extremely detailed tracing information.

The tracing feature relies on the JBoss Logging framework to produce the tracing info. The JBoss Logging configuration controls the final output of the tracing info.

By default, the tracing feature is turned off. To enable the tracing feature, add the following dependency in your project:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.jboss.resteasy</groupId>
    <artifactId>resteasy-tracing-api</artifactId>
</dependency>

Because the tracing feature is an optional feature, the above dependency is provided by the resteasy-extensions project.

After including the dependency in the project, set the tracing mode and tracing level via the context-param parameters in the project’s web.xml file. Here is the example:

<context-param>
    <param-name>resteasy.server.tracing.type</param-name>
    <param-value>ALL</param-value>
    <param-name>resteasy.server.tracing.threshold</param-name>
    <param-value>SUMMARY</param-value>
</context-param>

Besides the above configuration, the user needs to make sure that the underlying JBoss Logger is configured properly, so the tracing output can be viewed. Here is an example of the "logging.properties":

# Additional logger names to configure (root logger is always configured)
#loggers=org.foo.bar, org.foo.baz
# Root logger level
logger.level=ALL
# Declare handlers for the root logger
logger.handlers=CONSOLE, FILE
# Declare handlers for additional loggers
#logger.org.foo.bar.handlers=XXX, YYY
# Console handler configuration
handler.CONSOLE=org.jboss.logmanager.handlers.ConsoleHandler
handler.CONSOLE.properties=autoFlush
handler.CONSOLE.level=ALL
handler.CONSOLE.autoFlush=true
handler.CONSOLE.formatter=PATTERN
# File handler configuration
handler.FILE=org.jboss.logmanager.handlers.FileHandler
handler.FILE.level=ALL
handler.FILE.properties=autoFlush,fileName
handler.FILE.autoFlush=true
handler.FILE.fileName=/tmp/jboss.log
handler.FILE.formatter=PATTERN
# The log format pattern for both logs
formatter.PATTERN=org.jboss.logmanager.formatters.PatternFormatter
formatter.PATTERN.properties=pattern
formatter.PATTERN.pattern=%d{HH:mm:ss,SSS} %-5p [%c{1}] %m%n

In above setting, the logger level is set to "ALL", and the output log file to "/tmp/jboss.log". This example is reporting all the tracing information.

After enabling the tracing feature above, the tracing output looks like the following:

16:21:40,110 INFO  [general] org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.Servlet3AsyncHttpRequest@721299ff START baseUri=[http://localhost:8081/] requestUri=[http://localhost:8081/type] method=[GET] authScheme=[n/a] accept=n/a accept-encoding=n/a accept-charset=n/a accept-language=n/a content-type=n/a content-length=n/a  [ ---- ms]
16:21:40,110 TRACE [general] org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.Servlet3AsyncHttpRequest@721299ff START_HEADERS Other request headers: Connection=[Keep-Alive] Host=[localhost:8081] User-Agent=[Apache-HttpClient/4.5.4 (Java/1.8.0_201)]  [ ---- ms]
16:21:40,114 INFO  [general] org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.Servlet3AsyncHttpRequest@721299ff PRE_MATCH_SUMMARY PreMatchRequest summary: 0 filters [ 0.04 ms]
16:21:40,118 DEBUG [general] org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.Servlet3AsyncHttpRequest@721299ff REQUEST_FILTER Filter by [io.weli.tracing.HttpMethodOverride @60353244] [ 0.02 ms]
...
16:21:40,164 INFO  [general] org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.Servlet3AsyncHttpRequest@721299ff RESPONSE_FILTER_SUMMARY Response summary: 1 filters [ 8.11 ms]
16:21:40,164 INFO  [general] org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.Servlet3AsyncHttpRequest@721299ff FINISHED Response status: 200 [ ---- ms]

There are several part to the entries in the log information above.

In next section describes how the tracing info is fetched from client side.

From the client side, request can be sent to the server side. If the server side is configured properly to produce tracing info, the info will be sent back to client side via response headers. For example, a request is sent to the server like this:

$ curl -i http://localhost:8081/foo

The tracing information is retrieved from the response header follows:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
X-RESTEasy-Tracing-026: org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.Servlet3AsyncHttpRequest@7a49a8aa MBW         [ ---- / 61.57 ms |  ---- %] [org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers.InputStreamProvider @1cbf0b08] is skipped
...
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 09:39:50 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
X-RESTEasy-Tracing-000: org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.Servlet3AsyncHttpRequest@7a49a8aa START       [ ---- /  ---- ms |  ---- %] baseUri=[http://localhost:8081/] requestUri=[http://localhost:8081/type] method=[GET] authScheme=[n/a] accept=*/* accept-encoding=n/a accept-charset=n/a accept-language=n/a content-type=n/a content-length=n/a
...
X-RESTEasy-Tracing-025: org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.Servlet3AsyncHttpRequest@7a49a8aa MBW         [ ---- / 61.42 ms |  ---- %] [org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers.FileRangeWriter @35b791fa] is skipped

From above output, the tracing info is in the response headers, and it is marked in sequence as in the form of "X-RESTEasy-Tracing-nnn".

The tracing log can be returned to client side in JSON format. To use this feature, the user must specify a JSON provider for the tracing module to generate JSON formatted info. There are two JSON providers to choose from. Both support JSON data marshalling. The first choice is to use the jackson2 provider:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.jboss.resteasy</groupId>
    <artifactId>resteasy-jackson2-provider</artifactId>
</dependency>

The second choice is to use the json-binding provider:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.jboss.resteasy</groupId>
    <artifactId>resteasy-json-binding-provider</artifactId>
</dependency>

After including one of the above modules, send a request to server. The JSON formatted tracing information will be returned. Here is a request example (the example is provided at last section of this chapter):

$ curl -H "X-RESTEasy-Tracing-Accept-Format: JSON" -i http://localhost:8081/type

In the above curl command, "X-RESTEasy-Tracing-Accept-Format: JSON" was added into the request header. This is requesting the json formatted tracing info from server, and the tracing info in response header is as follows:

X-RESTEasy-Tracing-000: [{"event":"START","duration":0,"timestamp":195286694509932,"text":"baseUri=[http://localhost:8081/] requestUri=[http://localhost:8081/type] method=[GET] authScheme=[n/a] accept=*/* accept-encoding=n/a accept-charset=n/a accept-language=n/a content-type=n/a content-length=n/a ","requestId":"org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.Servlet3AsyncHttpRequest@7f8a33b9"},{"event":"START_HEADERS","duration":0,"timestamp":195286695053606,"text":"Other request headers: Accept=[*/*] Host=[localhost:8081] User-Agent=[curl/7.54.0] X-RESTEasy-Tracing-Accept-Format=[JSON] ","requestId":"org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.Servlet3AsyncHttpRequest@7f8a33b9"}...{"event":"FINISHED","duration":0,"timestamp":195286729758836,"text":"Response status: 200","requestId":"org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.Servlet3AsyncHttpRequest@7f8a33b9"}]

The above text is the raw output from the response. It can be formatted it to make it readable:

[{
    "X-RESTEasy-Tracing-000": [
        {
            "event": "START",
            "duration": 0,
            "timestamp": 195286694509932,
            "text": "baseUri=[http://localhost:8081/] requestUri=[http://localhost:8081/type] method=[GET] authScheme=[n/a] accept=*/* accept-encoding=n/a accept-charset=n/a accept-language=n/a content-type=n/a content-length=n/a ",
            "requestId": "org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.Servlet3AsyncHttpRequest@7f8a33b9"
        },
        {
            "event": "START_HEADERS",
            "duration": 0,
            "timestamp": 195286695053606,
            "text": "Other request headers: Accept=[*/*] Host=[localhost:8081] User-Agent=[curl/7.54.0] X-RESTEasy-Tracing-Accept-Format=[JSON] ",
            "requestId": "org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.Servlet3AsyncHttpRequest@7f8a33b9"
        },
        {
            "event": "PRE_MATCH_SUMMARY",
            "duration": 14563,
            "timestamp": 195286697637157,
            "text": "PreMatchRequest summary: 0 filters",
            "requestId": "org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.Servlet3AsyncHttpRequest@7f8a33b9"
        },
 ...
        {
            "event": "FINISHED",
            "duration": 0,
            "timestamp": 195286729758836,
            "text": "Response status: 200",
            "requestId": "org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.Servlet3AsyncHttpRequest@7f8a33b9"
        }
    ]
}]

From above shows the tracing info is returned as JSON text.

To use the ON_DEMAND mode, set the tracing mode via the context-param parameters in the project’s web.xml file. Here is the example:

<context-param>
    <param-name>resteasy.server.tracing.type</param-name>
    <param-value>ON_DEMAND</param-value>
</context-param>

From the client side, the user can send a request with additional tracing headers to enable the tracing feature and set the tracing level at per-request level. Here is the trigger header to enable the tracing information for this request:

X-RESTEasy-Tracing-Accept

By putting this header with any value in your header, the tracing information will be enabled for the request. To control the tracing level, send this header with relative level value in the request:

X-RESTEasy-Tracing-Threshold

Here is an example showing how to send the request with tracing feature enabled:

$ curl --header "X-RESTEasy-Tracing-Accept: ok" --header "X-RESTEasy-Tracing-Threshold: VERBOSE" -i http://localhost:8081/foo

Here is the tracing information:

X-RESTEasy-Tracing-026: org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.Servlet3AsyncHttpRequest@5e84478b MBW         [ ---- /  5.95 ms |  ---- %] [org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers.FileProvider @37a3c619] is skipped
X-RESTEasy-Tracing-027: org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.Servlet3AsyncHttpRequest@5e84478b MBW         [ ---- /  5.96 ms |  ---- %] [org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers.ByteArrayProvider @646b8da5] is skipped
X-RESTEasy-Tracing-028: org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.Servlet3AsyncHttpRequest@5e84478b MBW         [ ---- /  5.97 ms |  ---- %] [org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers.StreamingOutputProvider @3b2a4bf4] is skipped
X-RESTEasy-Tracing-029: org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.Servlet3AsyncHttpRequest@5e84478b MBW         [ ---- /  5.98 ms |  ---- %] [org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers.ReaderProvider @24729366] is skipped
X-RESTEasy-Tracing-030: org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.Servlet3AsyncHttpRequest@5e84478b MBW         [ ---- /  5.99 ms |  ---- %] [org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers.DataSourceProvider @d481aff] is skipped
X-RESTEasy-Tracing-031: org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.Servlet3AsyncHttpRequest@5e84478b MBW         [ ---- /  6.00 ms |  ---- %] [org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers.AsyncStreamingOutputProvider @35f6b856] is skipped
X-RESTEasy-Tracing-032: org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.Servlet3AsyncHttpRequest@5e84478b MBW         [ ---- /  6.01 ms |  ---- %] [org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers.FileRangeWriter @5cea30f7] is skipped
X-RESTEasy-Tracing-033: org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.Servlet3AsyncHttpRequest@5e84478b MBW         [ ---- /  6.02 ms |  ---- %] [org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers.InputStreamProvider @6c3361af] is skipped
X-RESTEasy-Tracing-034: org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.Servlet3AsyncHttpRequest@5e84478b MBW         [ ---- /  6.02 ms |  ---- %] WriteTo by org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers.StringTextStar

In addition, this header can be used to set the tracing info format:

X-RESTEasy-Tracing-Accept-Format

For example, set the value to 'JSON' to get the JSON formatted tracing info. Here is the command example:

$ curl --header "X-RESTEasy-Tracing-Accept: ok" --header "X-RESTEasy-Tracing-Threshold: VERBOSE" --header "X-RESTEasy-Tracing-Accept-Format: JSON" -i http://localhost:8081/foo

The JSON formatted tracing info from the response header will look like this:

X-RESTEasy-Tracing-000: [{"event":"START","duration":0,"timestamp":1108675323356714,"text":"baseUri=[http://localhost:8081/] requestUri=[http://localhost:8081/level] method=[GET] authScheme=[n/a] accept=*/* accept-encoding=n/a accept-charset=n/a accept-language=n/a content-type=n/a content-length=n/a ","requestId":"org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.Servlet3AsyncHttpRequest@78dd0a57"},{"event":"START_HEADERS","duration":0,"timestamp":1108675323563245,"text":"Other request headers: Accept=[*/*] Host=[localhost:8081] User-Agent=[curl/7.79.1] X-RESTEasy-Tracing-Accept=[ok] X-RESTEasy-Tracing-Accept-Format=[JSON] X-RESTEasy-Tracing-Threshold=[VERBOSE] ","requestId":"org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.Servlet3AsyncHttpRequest@78dd0a57"},{"event":"PRE_MATCH_SUMMARY","duration":5361,"timestamp":1108675323671984,"text":"PreMatchRequest summary: 0 filters","requestId":"org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.Servlet3AsyncHttpRequest@78dd0a57"},{"event":"REQUEST_FILTER_SUMMARY","duration":3675,"timestamp":1108675324245024,"text":"Request summary: 0 filters","requestId":"org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.Servlet3AsyncHttpRequest@78dd0a57"},{"event":"MATCH_RUNTIME_RESOURCE","duration":0,"timestamp":1108675324473886,"text":"Matched resource: template=[[org.jboss.resteasy.core.registry.ClassExpression @335ce24a]] regexp=[\\Q\\E(.*)] matches=[[org.jboss.resteasy.core.registry.SegmentNode @3f56df02]] from=[]","requestId":"org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.Servlet3AsyncHttpRequest@78dd0a57"},{"event":"MATCH_SUMMARY","duration":189460,"timestamp":1108675324593863,"text":"RequestMatching summary","requestId":"org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.Servlet3AsyncHttpRequest@78dd0a57"},{"event":"MATCH_RESOURCE","duration":0,"timestamp":1108675324720925,"text":"Resource instance: [org.jboss.resteasy.core.ResourceMethodInvoker @1d4d0e20]","requestId":"org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.Servlet3AsyncHttpRequest@78dd0a57"},{"event":"MATCH_RESOURCE_METHOD","duration":0,"timestamp":1108675324897726,"text":"Matched method  : public java.lang.String org.jboss.resteasy.tracing.examples.TracingConfigResource.level(jakarta.ws.rs.core.Configuration)","requestId":"org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.Servlet3AsyncHttpRequest@78dd0a57"},{"event":"REQUEST_FILTER","duration":9518,"timestamp":1108675325000692,"text":"Filter by [org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers.jackson.PatchMethodFilter @748a2754 #2147483647]","requestId":"org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.Servlet3AsyncHttpRequest@78dd0a57"},{"event":"REQUEST_FILTER","duration":3702,"timestamp":1108675325018731,"text":"Filter by [org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers.sse.SseEventSinkInterceptor @7dad4808 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Above is the basic usage introduction of the ON_DEMAND tracing mode.

The tracing events are defined in RESTEasyServerTracingEvent. Here is a complete list of the tracing events and its descriptions:

The "resteasy-example" project, contains a RESTEasy Tracing Example to show the usages of tracing features. Please check the example to see the usages in action.