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newrelic_accept_distributed_trace_headers

Syntax

newrelic_accept_distributed_trace_headers (array $headers, string $transport_type)

Accepts an array of distributed trace headers.

Requirements

Requires PHP agent version 9.8 or higher.

Description

Distributed tracing allows you to see the path that a request takes as it travels through a distributed system. When distributed tracing is enabled, use newrelic_accept_distributed_trace_headers to accept a payload of headers. These include both W3C Trace Context and New Relic distributed trace headers.

It is possible to only accept only W3C Trace Context headers and disable the New Relic Distributed Tracing header via the newrelic.distributed_tracing_exclude_newrelic_header INI setting.

Parameters

Parameter

Description

$headers

array

Required: an array containing distributed tracing headers.

$transport_type

string

Optional. A string overriding the default transport type.

Default values:

  • HTTP for web traffic

  • Unknown for non-web traffic

    Additional accepted values:

  • AMQP

  • HTTP

  • HTTPS

  • IronMQ

  • JMS

  • Kafka

  • Other

  • Queue

Return values

Returns True if the headers were accepted successfully, otherwise returns False.

Examples

For examples of how and when to use this API method, see the documentation to manually instrument applications and services.

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