websocket support

[RichardWright]

Hi!

We want to be able to instrument our websocket server automatically, will be this supported anytime soon? We currently use metrics to capture application state but are not happy with the memory/cpu cost this is incurring.

[kdawgwilk]

With the surge in LLMs and streaming from those models this is becoming a crucial needs for many companies

[tlhunter]

Which websocket package(s)?

[p-desaintchamas]

We have a similar issue, using the socket.io package.

Yet, would be perhaps even more useful to set-up a single example on how to do this with custom spans so people can at least make a workaround. We also would rely on NATS for our internal messaging & asynchronous task, and none of the actions it triggers appears to be tracked. (So https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-js/issues/2769 would probably also be useful for us)

[mysterycommand]

Which websocket package(s)?

For Node/JS servers https://github.com/socketio/socket.io and https://github.com/websockets/ws seem to be the most popular. I agree that an example of how to do it ones self would be invaluable.

[richardwf1arcade]

@tlhunter Hi! Any idea where this request is on your backlog?

[tlhunter]

Websocket support is currently being worked on