Python Supported Environments

Python Agent Support

Python Versions

The Python agent supports these Python versions:

• Linux: Python 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, and 3.9
• Alpine Linux: Python 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, and 3.9

Operating Systems

The Python agent operates on:

• Linux distribution based on glibc 2.12+ and x86 64-bit architecture
• Alpine Linux (3.13+) distribution based on musl 1.2.2+ and x86 64-bit architecture

The Python agent does not support Power Architecture.

Python Frameworks and Protocols

Python Agent supports:

• ASGI supported frameworks such as FastAPI
• WSGI supported frameworks such as Django, Flask, CherryPy, Bottle, and Pyramid 
• Tornado

You can configure the agent to instrument any WSGI-based and ASGI-based application or framework as Python Web, including but not limited to those listed below.

At present, the Python agent fully supports exception detection in Django, Flask, CherryPy, Bottle, Pyramid, Tornado, and FastAPI frameworks. Other frameworks and custom applications may install exception handlers that effectively hide some exceptions from the agent. In such cases, the agent will only detect exceptions during exit calls, missed exceptions that are propagated to the WSGI or ASGI middleware, and exceptions reported via the custom business transaction API.

Database Exit Points

HTTP Exit Points

^* The agent detects calls to any external library built on top of httplib. Therefore, backend calls to such services, such as, boto, dropbox, python-twitter are detected and displayed as HTTP exit calls.

Cache Exit Points