Dashboard: Grouping of requests with query parameters

[zaanposni]

First of: Thank you for your work. Really appreciate it!

I have been trying to integrate api-analytics into my project and have found that it handles query params a bit differently than I expected it to.

I have an API endpoint that looks like this GET /uploadplan?date=yyyy-mm-dd. Since a HTTP body is not expected for GET requests I chose this approach. However, I have found that the grouping in the dashboard does not expect multiple requests on the same endpoint with different query parameters.

I do understand that there are multiple viewpoints on this topic. My suggestion would be to either

1. disregard query parameters when grouping requests on the dashboard
2. add a toggle button on the dashboard that allows the user to choose whether or not to ignore the query params

If this is something you want to address, I would be happy to contribute a solution myself. I have pinpointed the issue to this endpointID which seems to be the identifier for grouping multiple requests.

[zaanposni]

I have found that it makes more sense to handle this sort of thing directly in the api.
For express it would be something like this:

const apiAnalyticsConfig = new Config();
apiAnalyticsConfig.getPath = (req) => req.path.split("?")[0];

Therefore, I would withdraw my request. What do you think about it? I may not be the first one to stumble over this problem. Might it be possible to implement something like this as part of "improving the developer experience"?

[tom-draper]

That's a great point!

I think a toggle switch to turn params off in the dashboard would be best the way to go. I'll try and add this feature soon. Thanks for this suggestion