Supported way of setting hosts on external-request segments? about newrelic-ruby-agent

[workato-integration]

https://new-relic.atlassian.net/browse/NR-273282

[tannalynn]

Thanks for submitting this feature request! It's an interesting idea that i don't think we've considered before. Metric normalization, like you had mentioned, happens after the data has already left the ruby agent, but currently, there is no built in way to accomplish this within the ruby agent itself. I'll bring it back to our team to discuss and prioritize.

In the mean time, after taking a quick look I think your idea for your workaround by changing ExternalRequestSegment#name is reasonable to try out, but I would also like to point out that there is another metric other than the segment name that gets created using the host, so unless you make updates there, you may run into the same MGI issue. Hopefully that helps!

[jdelStrother]

I would also like to point out that there is another metric other than the segment name that gets created using the host

Good catch, thanks. I'll try overriding ExternalRequestSegment#host instead.