Support for Kotlin Multiplatform and Ktor

[ThomasRichtsfeld]

Are you requesting automatic instrumentation for a framework or library? Please describe.

• Framework or library name : KMP, Ktor
• Library type: KMP library
• Library version: ktor version. 2.3.4

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
We are currently using Ktor in one of our KMP modules. None of the network calls are reported in Datadog. All the other network calls that are done with retrofit are reported.

Describe the solution you'd like
If Datadog is installed in the App module it should automatically trace the network requests that are done with the Ktor HttpClient

Describe alternatives you've considered
We didn't find an alternative solution

[jonathanmos]

hi @ThomasRichtsfeld, thanks for this feature request. We don't currently have plans to support KMP. Regarding Ktor we will discuss and see whether it is possible.

[ThomasRichtsfeld]

From our POV we don't need support for KMP, as long as tracing works for Ktor out of the box.

Thanks for the update @jonathanmos

[tassilo-posegga]

Any updates on this ussue? It looks like we are not the only ones with this need: https://www.reddit.com/r/ktor/comments/10584a3/ktor_client_tracing_and_monitoring_for_a_kotlin/

@ThomasRichtsfeld one solution could be using OkHttp instead, which starts KMP support with version 5

[0xnm]

Hello @tassilo-posegga! There is no update on this topic so far, it is not at the top of our list, but if we see that this feature is highly requested this will definitely change its priority for us.

[christer-hansen]

Ktor is growing bigger and bigger, it would be great to have support for this.