elastic / elastic/apm-agent-python
Investigate options and possible overhead of global string truncation
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Description
To ensure some user errors don't lead to overblown payload sizes, we want to truncate all strings in the payload to a max length, similar to what we already to with strings that are stored as keywords in Elasticsearch. This could potentially be quite overhead-heavy, so we need benchmarks of different approaches
* explicitly wrap all strings in a `maybe_truncate` function that either returns the string itself or, if necessary, a truncated version
* loop over the payload and truncate all strings before serializing
* modify `JSONSerializer` to truncate strings
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