Laravel 7 - transaction names saved as UUIDs rather than class & function about newrelic-php-agent

[zainspresso]

This is again occurring. Laravel 10 + v10.9.0.324 of the PHP agent

[darcyrailip]

Hey @Fahmy-Mohammed, I see you've added the backlog tag.

Is this confirmed to be a bug?

I'm just a bit confused since the release notes say support for Laravel 7 was explicitly added in version 9.13.0.270.

Surely someone else is running into this?

[zsistla]

Hi @darcyrailip,

Thank you for your engagement!

I know a workaround was listed on the forum post you cited (did it work for you?), but we’d like to try to work through this issue with you. Unfortunately we are not able to reproduce it on a Laravel 7 setup yet:

Could you provide a few more details about your environment:

1. What version of the PHP Agent are you using?
2. What version of PHP are you using?
3. Are there any other environmental details you can provide? (OS used, Dockerized container, etc).
4. Are all Laravel transaction names showing strangely for you, or only specific ones?

A Laravel txn name can be set in various ways.

Would it be possible to post some agent and daemon logs (or log snippets, sanitized for your privacy) to get a better idea what is going on?

To gather detailed log information for New Relic's PHP agent:
1. Find the configuration file that your server is reading. Most likely it is in /etc/php.d/newrelic.ini. If that file is missing, check your 'php.ini' file for newrelic.* entries.

2. Update (or insert) the newrelic.loglevel and newrelic.daemon.loglevel settings to "debug" Here are examples of the necessary lines:
newrelic.loglevel = "verbosedebug"

newrelic.daemon.loglevel = "verbosedebug"
Make certain that these two lines are not commented:
newrelic.logfile = "/var/log/newrelic/php_agent.log"
newrelic.daemon.logfile = "/var/log/newrelic/newrelic-daemon.log"
You can adjust the path as appropriate.

3. Uncomment the newrelic.daemon.auditlog = "/var/log/newrelic/audit.log" removing the leading ;

4. Restart the PHP daemon with the "/etc/init.d/newrelic-daemon restart" command. IGNORE ANY ERRORS YOU RECEIVE - DO NOT CREATE A CFG FILE IF ONE DOES NOT EXIST

5. Restart Apache, FPM, nginx, or whatever dispatcher you're using for your PHP application.

6. Exercise your web application so you think it will generate problem you have encountered or the metrics you want to see.

7. Collect about five minutes of the logs from the time you restarted the application in step 4 or until the problem manifests itself. The log locations typically are:
/var/log/newrelic/php_agent.log
/var/log/newrelic/newrelic-daemon.log

Note that this is a highly verbose logging level, so after you've finished collecting data, you will want to restore the old logging level by changing both log level settings back to 'info' and performing both restarts again.

[humunuk]

Hey, I think the problem appears only when caching routes(?).

PHP Version: 7.4
Laravel: 7.x
Agent: 9.16.0.295

Here is an example from my auditlog after I enabled it:

2021/04/16 07:16:53.933815 command='analytic_event_data' url='REDACTED",{"reservoir_size":833,"events_seen":4},[[{"type":"Transaction","name":"WebTransaction/Action/generated::Z7mZPkw5PDQzj3ra","timestamp":1618546610.80718,"duration":0.06312,"totalTime":0.06312,"nr.guid":"821424e33e615a5b","nr.apdexPerfZone":"S","nr.tripId":"821424e33e615a5b","nr.pathHash":"2678fa52","nr.alternatePathHashes":"8b744442","databaseDuration":0.00651,"databaseCallCount":27,"error":false},{},{"response.headers.contentType":"application/json","http.statusCode":200,"response.statusCode":200,"httpResponseCode":"200","request.uri":"/workbiter/dashboard/calendar","request.method":"GET","request.headers.host":"REDACTED.com","request.headers.accept":"application/json, text/plain, /"}],[{"type":"Transaction","name":"WebTransaction/Action/generated::QRmHMrp4Dun4GIpC","timestamp":1618546612.51234,"duration":0.05367,"totalTime":0.05367,"nr.apdexPerfZone":"S","databaseDuration":0.00083,"databaseCallCount":6,"error":false},{},{"response.headers.contentType":"text/html","http.statusCode":200,"response.statusCode":200,"httpResponseCode":"200","request.uri":"/signup","request.method":"GET","request.headers.host":"REDACTED.com","request.headers.accept":"text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,/;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9"}],[{"type":"Transaction","name":"WebTransaction/Action/generated::Z7mZPkw5PDQzj3ra","timestamp":1618546613.36192,"duration":0.09099,"totalTime":0.09099,"nr.guid":"783159856c2611e7","nr.apdexPerfZone":"S","nr.tripId":"783159856c2611e7","nr.pathHash":"2678fa52","nr.alternatePathHashes":"8b744442","databaseDuration":0.00792,"databaseCallCount":27,"error":false},{},{"response.headers.contentType":"application/json","http.statusCode":200,"response.statusCode":200,"httpResponseCode":"200","request.uri":"/workbiter/dashboard/calendar","request.method":"GET","request.headers.host":"REDACTED.com","request.headers.accept":"application/json, text/plain, /"}],[{"type":"Transaction","name":"WebTransaction/Action/generated::2AiIskh9n1KIT9cp","timestamp":1618546613.87929,"duration":0.03500,"totalTime":0.03500,"nr.apdexPerfZone":"S","databaseDuration":0.00061,"databaseCallCount":3,"error":false},{},{"response.headers.contentType":"text/html","http.statusCode":302,"response.statusCode":302,"httpResponseCode":"302","request.uri":"/auth/oauth-login/Facebook","request.method":"GET","request.headers.host":"example.com","request.headers.accept":"text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,/;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9"}]]]}

The workaround provided in forum post, adding middleware that manually sets webtransaction for newrelic extension solves the problem.

[yohangdev]

This issue also happen on Laravel 8. How to reproduce is to activate caching routes, example: php artisan optimize.

Transaction name will like this: generated::lXV9XhYeFMmMfxjI (recorded on NewRelic APM).

{
  "action": "App\\Http\\Controllers\\HomeController",
  "method": "GET",
  "name": "generated::lXV9XhYeFMmMfxjI",
  "url": "/"
}

[Fahmy-Mohammed]

Fixed in #174