<html><head></head><body><p>With the 1.12.0 release of the Elastic APM Node.js agent, we now have the ability to identify routes and collect errors for the <a href="http://restify.com">restify</a> server framework. See the <a href="https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-nodejs/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#1120---2018831">CHANGELOG.md</a> for the full list of changes in this release.
</p><h2>Getting started with restify</h2><p>Using restify with Elastic APM requires no special configuration. Here&#x2019;s a simple app to demonstrate tracing:
</p><pre class="prettyprint">require(&apos;elastic-apm-node&apos;).start()
var restify = require(&apos;restify&apos;)

var app = restify.createServer()

app.get(&apos;/hello/:name&apos;, (req, res, next) =&gt; {
  res.send(&apos;hello &apos; + req.params.name)
  next()
})

app.listen(3000)
</pre><p>With this app, a request to <code>/hello/world</code> will produce a transaction with the name <code>GET /hello/:name</code>.
</p><h2>Error reporting</h2><p>There is also no configuration necessary to benefit from reporting of restify errors. Any error given to the next method in a route will be reported.
</p><pre class="prettyprint">app.get(&apos;/fail&apos;, (req, res, next) =&gt; {
  return next(new restify.errors.NotFoundError(&apos;fail&apos;))
})
</pre><p>A request to the <code>/fail</code> route will record the <code>NotFoundError</code>.
</p><h2>Give it a try!</h2><p>If you are already using the Elastic APM Node.js agent, all you need to do is upgrade to the latest version and your restify servers will start naming transaction with route names and will report errors &#x2014; no configuration needed.
</p><p>If you haven&#x2019;t yet taken Elastic APM for a spin, get started by reading our <a href="/guide/en/apm/get-started/6.4/overview.html">Getting Started Guide</a>.
</p><h2>What&#x2019;s next?</h2><p>There&#x2019;s always something new and exciting in the pipeline, but right now we&#x2019;re working hard to enable distributed tracing. With distributed tracing, Elastic APM will be able to correlate requests between multiple servers to form a unified trace across multiple servers, revealing what part of the entire user-facing request lifecycle would benefit the most from performance improvements.
</p>Please give the agent a try and give some feedback in the<a href="https://discuss.elastic.co/c/apm"> discussion forum</a>. We are also always open for contributions, so feel free to check out the source code over at<a href="https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-nodejs"> GitHub</a> and to open a pull request.</body></html>

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