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codeforamerica / balance

A text message system for checking one's EBT card balance (SNAP benefits and more)
MIT License
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Uniquely stamp a user request for the entire HTTP flow #305

Closed daguar closed 8 years ago

daguar commented 9 years ago

The next tier up on monitoring is really to pass some unique ID through each URL that comprises the flow of checking a user's balance so that we can see for this specific inbound balance request that this was the result and delay at each step.

So, something like:

Initial call TwiML URL: /get_balance?...transaction_id=myuniqueidgoeshere Transcription success callback URL: /1510111222/1415111222/myuniqueidgoeshere/send_balance

Not too hard, but a decent chunk of work — worth considering if the monitoring surfaces a not-tiny number of operations errors on the API side that we want solid data about.

daguar commented 8 years ago

This has actually already been implemented, so closing!