If you’re using Docker Compose to run your app, you can use Subtrace to monitor all of your backend requests. Here’s how you can get started:

1

Make the following change to your Dockerfile to install and use Subtrace in your app’s Docker image:

- CMD ["node", "./app.js"]
+ RUN curl -fsSLO https://subtrace.dev/download/latest/$(uname -s)/$(uname -m)/subtrace && chmod +x ./subtrace
+ CMD ["./subtrace", "run", "--", "node", "./app.js"]
2

Add the following lines to your service’s definition in your compose.yaml file:

cap_add:
  - SYS_PTRACE
3

Start your app as you normally would:

4

That’s it! Open the subt.link URL in your browser to see your app’s requests show up in real time:

It’s possible that the subt.link URL is printed from within a container. Be sure to check

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