Tracing Flask with wrapture
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Tracing HTTP requests in a Flask app requires more than a simple config binding — WSGI's split between headers, callbacks, and streamed bodies means naive instrumentation misses failures entirely. Using wrapture-instrumentation, a single config entry hooks into Flask's dispatch, middleware, and exception handler to capture each request as one complete trace tree, including 500 errors that Flask silently swallows.
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