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Operations

Introduction

The Operations tab will present a processed real-time log of all requests to the GraphQL Engine. Here you can also inspect individual operations.

Capture query variables

At the top of the Monitoring > Operations page in the Console, you can select whether to turn on "Capture query variables" which is disabled by default.

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When "Capture query variables" is enabled, you are able to inspect the query variables provided for each request.

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Terminology

Operation
Any GraphQL (query, mutation, subscription) request made to v1/graphql endpoint of a GraphQL Engine instance

Operation name
(Optional) Any GraphQL request can be labelled with a name by the client making the query. In this example, getPollOptions is the operation name:

query getPollOptions (
  poll {
    options {
      id
      name
      description
    }
  }
}

Operation ID
A unique, auto-generated hash for each Operation name; can distinguish between different operations executed with the same name

Operation type
Whether the operation is a query, mutation, or subscription

Request ID
A unique, auto-generated ID for each request, comes from x-request-id HTTP header

Websocket ID
A unique ID generated by the server when a websocket connection is established by the client

Websocket Operation ID
A unique ID generated by the websocket client for each operation it is sending to the server

Filtering operations

Click on the Filter header to open the menu of filter options

Sorting operations

Each column in the Operations List can be sorted (ascending or descending) just by clicking on it. Very useful for identifying operations with unusually high execution time or response size!