added transaction type to error events

closes #383

Author: beniwohli

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 
  * Added support for collecting system and process metrics (#361)
  * Added `transaction.sampled` to errors (#371)
+ * Added `transaction.type` to errors (#391)
  * Added parsing of `/proc/self/cgroup` to capture container meta data (#352)
  * Added option to configure logging for Flask using a log level (#344)
 

elasticapm/base.py

@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ def _build_msg_for_logging(
                 event_data["trace_id"] = transaction.trace_parent.trace_id
             event_data["parent_id"] = transaction.id
             event_data["transaction_id"] = transaction.id
-            event_data["transaction"] = {"sampled": transaction.is_sampled}
+            event_data["transaction"] = {"sampled": transaction.is_sampled, "type": transaction.transaction_type}
 
         return event_data
 

tests/client/client_tests.py

@@ -648,6 +648,7 @@ def test_transaction_data_is_attached_to_errors(elasticapm_client):
     assert "transaction_id" not in errors[0]
     assert errors[1]["transaction_id"] == transaction.id
     assert errors[1]["transaction"]["sampled"]
+    assert errors[1]["transaction"]["type"] == "test"
     assert "transaction_id" not in errors[2]