Why don't my network requests appear in the Firebase Performance console?

[gcarpi]

Hi everyone, how’s it going?

I could use some help with integrating Firebase Performance. I added the @capacitor-firebase/performance module to my app and completed all the necessary configurations as in the documentation.

The integration appears to be successful since I can see custom traces like _app_start, _app_in_foreground, etc. However, on the Network Requests tab, the only entries I’m seeing are cdn.branch.io/** for Android, and firebase-settings.crashlytics.com/**, fcmtoken.googleapis.com/**, app-analytics-services.com/**, firebaseremoteconfig.googleapis.com/** for iOS. Where are the rest of the network requests?

I searched for help online and found that some requests may not be captured automatically. Could this be the case here? If so, I noticed there’s a method called newHttpMetric in the original Firebase Performance module for manually registering requests, but I couldn’t find this method in the Capacitor library. For context, I’m using Axios on the client side to make API requests in my app.

Libraries in use:

• @capacitor/[email protected]
• @capacitor-firebase/[email protected]
• @ionic/[email protected]
• [email protected]

Thank you in advance!

[robingenz]

Thank you for creating this discussion! The Firebase Performance SDK can only capture http requests on the native layer. You can try to use the Capacitor HTTP plugin but i have not tested this myself. See https://firebase.google.com/docs/perf-mon/network-traces for more information.

[gcarpi]

Hi @robingenz, thank you for the quick answer.

Got it! I'm wondering if the simplest thing for me now would be to install and configure the web version of Firebase Performance, so I can see the requests in another project in the Firebase console. Changing the HTTP Request library from Axios to this one from Capacitor would be a big change for now.

Thanks again.

[gcarpi]

Hi @robingenz, do you think we could add the newHttpMetric method to this module? I think it could help us manually track HTTP requests on the web side.

[robingenz]

Sure, feel free to create a feature request.