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Network requests tracking for 3rd parties

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
android, kotlin

Research direction

Start with the issue description and the linked Firebase Performance network-traces reference. No files, tests, or entry points are named, so first investigate the Android SDK's existing network tracking and how an instrumentation plugin could cover third-party libraries. Done means automatically tracking requests from libraries that do not expose a custom OkHttp instance.

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Description

enhancement

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I would like Datadog to be able to automatically track the network requests for every third party libraries I have in my apps.

For some libraries, it's possible to give a custom Okhttp instance and add the required interceptors but not all libraries allow this.

This is particularly useful to get alerts when a 3rd party service is down.

Describe the solution you'd like

Ideally, something like what Firebase Performances propose:
https://firebase.google.com/docs/perf-mon/network-traces?platform=android&hl=en

Network requests are automatically tracked by just applying the plugin.
It also works on third-party libraries.

Dominant language
Kotlin
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Merged PRs (30d)
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