Manually starting a new trace, profiling a function, and continuing a trace down into instrumented library calls with TraceView

gistfile1.py

import oboe
import urllib2
from oboeware import loader

# load monkey-patched instrumentation for supported modules
loader.load_inst_modules()

oboe.config['tracing_mode'] = 'always'
oboe.config['sample_rate'] = 1

#START a new trace at the entry point of your code
@oboe.trace('code_entry_point')
def handle_request():
    print 'checking google.com ...'
    #CONTINUE a trace by calling an instrumented library (set up by loader.load_inst_modules() call above)
    response = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.google.com')
    if validate_html(response.read()):
        print 'A lot of bytes read!'
    else:
        print 'Seems like we need more bytes!'

#CONTINUE a trace by adding a profiled function
@oboe.profile_function('some_function')
def validate_html(html_response):
    if len(html_response) < 1024:
        return False
    else:
        return True


if __name__ == "__main__":
    handle_request()