Server Side Rendering and distributed tracing

[davodesign84 (Davide Scalzo)]

Hi there,

we are trying to implement distributed tracing on our frontend APM, however we are using SSR and that causes the first page load to miss useful tracing information.

'page-load' example:

'route-change': example:

The application is built with Nextjs and react, as well as using a zeit now serverless deployment.

Should we initialise with the node agent instead of the js agent on the server side or is there something else I'm missing?

[vigneshshanmugam]

Hi Davide,

Thanks for reaching out. You just need a bit of config changes for the page-load transaction from the Node.js agent side. You can find the relevant information on this issue comments https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-rum-js/issues/425#issuecomment-532648711

Let us know if you need any help.

Thanks,
Vignesh