Tagging
Use the Appsignal.Transaction.set_sample_data function to supply extra context on errors and
performance issues. This can help to add information that is not already part of
the request, session or environment parameters.
1 | Appsignal.Transaction.set_sample_data("tags", %{locale: "en"}) |
Warning: Do not use tagging to send personal data such as names or email addresses to AppSignal. If you want to identify a person, consider using a user ID, hash or pseudonymized identifier instead. You can use link templates to link them to your own system.
Tags
Using tags you can easily add more information to errors and performance issues tracked by AppSignal. There are a few limitations on tagging though.
- The tag key must be a
StringorAtom. - The tagged value must be a
String,AtomorInteger.
Tags that do not meet these limitations are dropped without warning.
set_sample_data can be called multiple times, the given data will be merged, for example:
1 2 3 | Appsignal.Transaction.set_sample_data("tags", %{locale: "en"}) Appsignal.Transaction.set_sample_data("tags", %{user: "bob"}) Appsignal.Transaction.set_sample_data("tags", %{locale: "de"}) |
will result in the following data:
1 2 3 4 | %{ user: "bob", locale: "de" } |
Link templates
Tags can also be used to create link templates. Read more about link templates in our link templates guide.