Missing an example for using waitUntil() for metrics about examples

[lfades]

@arturenault I opened a PR for that in the Next.js repo: vercel/next.js#35622 (it's merged)

[lfades]

Hi @arturenault I hope you're doing well!

We have not decided yet about the best place to send analytics and middleware has some constraints around it, I'll come back to you in the future but for the moment I'll close the issue as analytics and logging won't be added using edge functions in our examples.

[arturenault]

Thanks, I'll look forward to that! We should probably change the docs then, at least, as it specifically mentions this as a use case for middleware.

[Noitidart]

Aw dang, was looking for a place to do this. Looking forward to see when a solution is given for analytics like datadog.

[Noitidart]

Does anyone else have any example of middleware where they do code before the api-route runs and then after the api-route finishes running?

[mquandalle]

Also curious what is the recommended solution to insert a record in a database for analytics without blocking the HTTP response. I tried log drains but it's really a mess to retrieve a simple Json object.

[Noitidart]

@mquandalle it seems we can run dd-trace as discovered here - vercel/next.js#16600 - it links to - https://jake.tl/notes/2021-04-04-nextjs-preload-hack