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Kaushik Gopal

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In this short fragment, Kaushik explains how you can trace network requests from your app by adding a special header. Easily trace an HTTP request all the way from a client to your backend web process.

In this short fragment, Kaushik explains how you can trace network requests from your app by adding a special header. Easily trace an HTTP request all the way from a client to your backend web process.

## Shownotes

* [What is the X-Request-ID](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25433258/what-is-the-x-request-id-http-header)
* [HTTP Request IDs improve visibility across the application stack](https://blog.heroku.com/http_request_id_s_improve_visibility_across_the_application_stack)
* [How HTTP headers work](https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/http-headers-for-dummies—net-8039)
* [Where does the X- come from?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_header_fields)

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Donn Felker

@donnfelker

Kaushik Gopal

@kaushikgopal

Fragmented · December 18, 2018

145: Tracking Network Requests With x-Request-ID

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