Strawberry Metrics Plugin

The Stellate GraphQL Strawberry Metrics Plugin is a powerful tool designed to integrate Stellate with your existing GraphQL Strawberry APIs with just a few lines of code.

Simple and easy to integrate, our Strawberry Metrics Plugin enables schema syncing and metrics logging, allowing for a seamless connection with the Stellate service for performance insights and analytics.

Benefits of the Strawberry Metrics Plugin

The primary benefit of using our Strawberry Metrics Plugin is to be able to collect metrics without setting up the Stellate Edge proxy. For more information about the Stellate Edge proxy, read Stellate Edge proxy. In addition, the Strawberry Metrics Plugin features:

Straightforward setup and integration with standard services.
Simple way to add an extension to your Strawberry GraphQL schema class with a create_stellate_extension method. This extension captures and logs detailed information about your StrawberryGraphQL requests and their execution. This data is invaluable for debugging, monitoring performance, and understanding your GraphQL Strawberry API usage patterns.
Automatically synchronize your GraphQL schema with your Stellate service, ensuring that your Stellate metrics can show you which types and fields are (un)used.

Before you Begin

Before you install and use the Stellate Strawberry Plugin, you need to have a Python environment set up with Strawberry. Additionally, you need to:

Set Up a Stellate Service: You must have an active Stellate service set up. Our GraphQL Strawberry Plugin is designed to work with your Stellate service. It provides performance insights and analytics for GraphQL Strawberry-based APIs.

Create a Logging Token: To implement this plugin, you need to create a logging token specific to your Stellate service. This token is used to authenticate and log metrics data from your GraphQL API to your Stellate dashboard. You can get your logging token by going to your Stellate Dashboard > Services > Your Service > Config > Token

Once these prerequisites are met, you can install the GraphQL Strawberry Metrics Plugin.

Set up the Strawberry Metrics Plugin

To install and set up and use the Strawberry Metrics Plugin use the following simple setup steps:

Before you can make use of this plugin, you must have set up a Stellate service and create a logging token. See the prior Before You Begin section for more information.
Install the Strawberry Metrics Plugin using a standard package manager for Python, such as pip
The installation command is typically:
```
pip install strawberry-graphql
```

Import necessary functions from the plugin, such as create_stellate_extension, and add them as extension to the Strawberry schema. The allows you to add extensions to the Strawberry GraphQL schema.

from stellate_strawberry import create_stellate_extension

service_name = "my-service"  # The name of your Stellate service
token = "stl8_xyz"           # The logging token for above service

schema = strawberry.Schema(
    query=Query,
    extensions=[create_stellate_extension(service_name, token)]
)

Start the server and send some requests to your API.
Refresh your dashboard to show the incoming requests and metrics, highlighting the plugin's capability to track Strawberry GraphQL API usage.

Schema Syncing

The GraphQL Strawberry Metrics Plugin allows schema syncing, which ensures that the GraphQL schema stays in sync with the service being used. You can enable schema syncing on server startup by adding the following code:

from stellate_strawberry import sync_schema_to_stellate

service_name = "my-service"  # The name of your Stellate service
token = "stl8_xyz"           # The logging token for above service

schema = strawberry.Schema(query=Query)

# This will send schema information to stellate
sync_schema_to_stellate(schema, service_name, token)

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