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Extending the Capabilities of Guardrail Plugins: Leveraging Hooks for Instrumentation and Monitoring

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Hi, quick question. Are the plugins only for guardrail purposes? It would be interesting for example to be able to create a plugin which leverages the hooks to use an instrumentation framework from tools like datadog or grafana tu automatically trace and inject third party monitoring to the calls

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ssega

@visarg is extending the plugins piece have generic lifecycle triggers

eelentaure.

@sega nice. Are there more details that can be shared about this?

ssega

four types of hook controllers

on start
before request
after request
on end

eelentaure.

and what about using third party libraries in the hooks? As mentioned, for example, datadog sdk

rrohit

yes, youll be able to build connectors to third party libraries or use webhooks for custom URLs as well.

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