# GraphQL and tracing

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/graphql-and-tracing/347132>\
**Category:** APM\
**Tags:** nodejs\
**Created:** [November 14, 2023, 2:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/graphql-and-tracing/347132 "2023-11-14T14:42:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![samiujan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/samiujan/32/23605_2.png) [@samiujan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/samiujan)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2023, 2:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/graphql-and-tracing/347132/1 "2023-11-14T14:42:07Z")

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Hi

I am curious about this article: [https://github.com/elastic/apm/blob/main/specs/agents/tracing-instrumentation-graphql.md](https://github.com/elastic/apm/blob/main/specs/agents/tracing-instrumentation-graphql.md)

I have implemented tracing in an Apollo Server running inside NestJS but I see a big block of GraphQL and not instrumentation for the beautiful parse, analyze and execute that you can see in the diagram there

Is there something specific you need to turn on to see that? I am using Elastic/Kibana/APM Agent 8.10.4 on a Ubuntu machine

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**Author:** ![Sami\_Ullah\_Jan1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sami_ullah_jan1/32/127404_2.png) [@Sami\_Ullah\_Jan1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sami_Ullah_Jan1)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 5:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/graphql-and-tracing/347132/2 "2023-11-16T05:37:45Z")

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anyone from the Elastic team? I can see it was implemented for the Ruby agent but has it been implemented for the NodeJS agent as well?

> <https://github.com/elastic/apm/pull/208>
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> A proposal for a common approach to GraphQL for the server side agents.
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> \*\*Cur…rent status:\*\* \[Implementation merged and released in the Ruby agent\](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-ruby/pull/721https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-ruby/pull/721) following this doc. If there are no objections, we merge this but keep the \_work in progress\_ note until more agents have implemented.

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**Author:** ![trentm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/trentm/32/77647_2.png) [@trentm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/trentm)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 10:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/graphql-and-tracing/347132/3 "2023-11-20T22:41:09Z")

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Ah, sorry I didn't see this discuss post originally. I answered, where it was re-asked, on the PR: [https://github.com/elastic/apm/pull/208#issuecomment-1815501047](https://github.com/elastic/apm/pull/208#issuecomment-1815501047)

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**Author:** ![samiujan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/samiujan/32/23605_2.png) [@samiujan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/samiujan)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 3:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/graphql-and-tracing/347132/4 "2023-11-21T03:56:07Z")

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Thank you @trentm

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2023, 3:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/graphql-and-tracing/347132/5 "2023-12-19T03:56:35Z")

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