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[[custom-instrumentation]]
=== Custom instrumentation
When <<introduction,installed>> and <<configuration,properly configured>>
ElasticAPM will automatically wrap your app's request/responses in transactions
and report its errors.
It also wraps each background job if you use Sidekiq or DelayedJob.
But it is possible to create your own transactions as well as provide spans for
any automatic or custom transaction.
See <<api-agent-start_transaction,`ElasticAPM.start_transaction`>> and
<<api-agent-start_span,`ElasticAPM.start_span`>>.
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==== Helpers
ElasticAPM includes some nifty helpers if you just want to instrument a regular
method.
[source,ruby]
----
class Thing
include ElasticAPM::SpanHelpers
def do_the_work
# ...
end
span_method :do_hard_work # takes optional `name` and `type`
def self.do_all_the_work
# ...
end
span_class_method :do_hard_work, 'Custom name', 'custom.work_thing'
end
----
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==== Custom span example
If you are already inside a Transaction (most likely) and you want to instrument
some work inside it, add a custom span:
[source,ruby]
----
class ThingsController < ApplicationController
def index
@result_of_work = ElasticAPM.with_span "Heavy work" do
do_the_heavy_work
end
end
end
----
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==== Custom transaction example
If you are **not** inside a Transaction already (eg. outside of your common web
application) start and manage your own transactions like so:
[source,ruby]
----
class Something
def do_work
transaction = ElasticAPM.start_transaction 'Something#do_work'
begin
Sequel[:users] # many third party libs will be automatically instrumented
rescue Exception => e
ElasticAPM.report(e)
raise
ensure
ElasticAPM.end_transaction('result')
end
end
end
----
**Note:** If the agent isn't started beforehand this will do nothing.
See <<api-agent-start,ElasticAPM.start>>.
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