Node.js Settings Reference

You can use environment variables for some of the settings. To apply the settings, add them to the require statement for the Node.js Agent in the monitored application.

The Node.js Agent no longer supports the proxy as of version 21.9.

General Settings

The following table is the complete list of settings in the require statement that you insert into your application code. Not all of these settings are required.

Analytics Settings

You can configure the Node.js Agent to send default transaction data to the Analytics Agent.

To add a setting for the Analytics host and port with the following format, specify the host and port numbers. The Analytics Agent may report on the same or different host and port numbers from the Node.js Agent.

analytics: {
    host: <analyticsHostName>,
    port: <analyticsPortNumber>,
    ssl: <true / false>  
}

In Analytics Settings, ensure to specify the values for the variables in their supported data types.

To configure Analytics data limits, see Configure Transaction Analytics for Node.js, PHP, and Python Applications.

Windows Settings

On Windows, the Node.js Agent requires three additional ports:

• proxyCommPort: default is 10101
• proxyRequestPort: default is 10102
• proxyReportingPort: default is 10103

See Run the Node.js Agent on Windows.


Filter Sensitive Data

If your application contains sensitive data that should not be displayed in the Controller, you can apply the following data filters to the require statement of the Node.js Agent.

Add a Sensitive Data Filter

When you enable a sensitive data filter, the Controller displays asterisks for the values of matching environment variables or system properties.

dataFilters: [{
   "appliesTo": "http-headers",
   "matchPattern": "host"
}],

Environment Variable Filter

By default, the Node.js Agent enables a sensitive data filter with an environment variables/system properties that contain the case-insensitive substring password|key.

dataFilters: [{
   "appliesTo": "env-vars",
   "matchPattern": "password|key"
}],

Sensitive URL Filter

You can use sensitive URL filters to configure the agent to obfuscate sensitive information from the URLs in the Transaction Snapshot details.

urlFilters: [{
   "delimiter": "/",
   "segment": "1",
   "matchPattern": "a",
   "paramPattern": "bar"
}],

The sensitive URL filter checks for the matchPattern in one segment. To check for additional segments, you can add an additional JSON array.

The filter processes requests in the following format: /aa/bb/cc → ***/bb/cc. 

The matchpattern/parampattern is a standard regex.

urlFilters

delimiter

segment

URL Segment Filter

With the matchpattern regex, the Node.js Agent decides whether or not to filter a specified segment.

If you have multiple rules, list the more specific rule before the more general rule. The rules listed in the array are evaluated based on order. 

Rule A:

{
 'delimiter': '/',
 'matchPattern': '[0-9a-z]{8}-[0-9a-z]{4}-[0-9a-z]{4}-[0-9a-z]{4}-[0-9a-z]{12}\/.{50,}',
 'segment': '3,5'
}

Rule B:

{
 'delimiter': '/',
 'matchPattern': '[0-9a-z]{8}-[0-9a-z]{4}-[0-9a-z]{4}-[0-9a-z]{4}-[0-9a-z]{12}',
 'segment': '3'
}

In this example, the first rule, Rule A, should be listed before Rule B because rule A masks the third and fifth segment.

If Rule B were to be listed and evaluated before Rule A, the third segment will be masked and the fifth segment will not masked, potentially revealing sensitive information. 

URL Parameter Filter

With the paramPattern regex, the Node.js Agent decides whether or not to filter a specified query parameter. 

If you need to mask all URL parameters, you can add further instruction to the array.

{ "delimiter": "/", "matchPattern": "", "segment": "99", "paramPattern": ".+"}

The Node.js Agent will filter out all URL parameters. 

Sensitive Message Filter

You can use sensitive message filters to configure the agent to obfuscate sensitive information contained within text messages collected by the agent from log messages or detail messages from exceptions.

messageFilters: [{
   "messageType": 
"throwable",
   "matchPattern": 
"Error.*MySQL.",
   "redactionRegex": "SQL"
}]

Environment Variables

If you have not provided the required settings in the require statement, the agent uses the values of the following environment variables if those variables are set. If both are set, the require statement value takes precedence over the environment variable.

Environment Variable	Maps to
APPDYNAMICS_CONTROLLER_HOST_NAME	controllerHostName
APPDYNAMICS_CONTROLLER_PORT	controllerPort
APPDYNAMICS_CONTROLLER_SSL_ENABLED	controllerSslEnabled
APPDYNAMICS_AGENT_ACCOUNT_NAME	accountName
APPDYNAMICS_LOGGER_OUTPUT_TYPE	You can stream logs to stdout by setting its value to console.
APPDYNAMICS_LOGGER_LEVEL	You can set the logging level of the agent. Possible values include: FATAL, ERROR, WARN, INFO, DEBUG, and TRACE.
APPDYNAMICS_AGENT_ACCOUNT_ACCESS_KEY	accountAccessKey
APPDYNAMICS_AGENT_APPLICATION_NAME	applicationName
APPDYNAMICS_AGENT_TIER_NAME	tierName
APPDYNAMICS_AGENT_NODE_NAME	nodeName
APPDYNAMICS_AGENT_UNIQUE_HOST_ID	-
APPDYNAMICS_ANALYTICS_HOST_NAME	host—in Analytics settings
APPDYNAMICS_ANALYTICS_PORT	port—in Analytics settings
APPDYNAMICS_ANALYTICS_SSL_ENABLED	ssl—in Analytics settings
UNIQUE_HOST_ID	uniqueHostId The unique host ID can be set to any value that will identify the host. If a value is not specified, the agent will generate the host ID. This environment variable is available by default (not for Java proxy mode).