How to measure background jobs? | Atatus Documentation

Atatus APM automatically instruments all web requests. In case you want to instrument web sockets calls, background jobs, and unsupported databases, you need to use custom instrumentation as follows:

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var atatus = require("atatus-nodejs");
atatus.startBackgroundTransaction("background transaction name");
var span = atatus.startSpan("custom span name");
// Your code here.
if (span) span.end()
atatus.endTransaction();

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var atatus = require("atatus-nodejs");
atatus.startBackgroundTransaction("new:chat-message");
socket.on("message", function (data) {
    var span = atatus.startSpan("add:message:firebase");
    addMessageToFirebase(data, function () {
        socket.emit("got the message");
        span.end()
        atatus.endTransaction();
    });
});

Transaction timing consists of spans(aka layers). Every transaction must have at least one span. Any database calls will be added automatically as a span to the transaction.