Requesting a method to stop harvesting data.

[ruk93]

Summary

For MicroAgents/BrowserAgent, introducing a method like agent.stop(); is beneficial for micro-frontend projects where sub-paths (in SPAs) are managed by different engineering teams. For example, this feature would allow running multiple agents to independently track specific route paths (e.g., /one-path/* and /two-path/*) without causing conflicts or duplicating data harvesting. The agent.stop() method can be used to stop data collection when the user navigates away from a particular route group.

Desired Behavior

Example scenario

• user setup BrowserAgent or MicroAgent with auto_start=false
• user manually start agent when required conditions met.
• user manually stop agent when conditions are no longer valid.
• user should be able to restart agent without loosing session id when conditions met again.
• harvested data should not contain data from outer context.

Possible Solution

• introduce stop() methods to agent instance ( MicroAgent and BrowserAgent)
• update start() method to start harvesting if agent is previously stopped.

Additional context

This feature would allow running multiple agents to independently track specific route paths (e.g., /one-path/* and /two-path/*) without causing conflicts or duplicating data harvesting. The agent.stop() method can be used to stop data collection when the user navigates away from a particular route group.

Example React Component Implementation

const MicroApp = () => {

useEffect(() => {
    const agent = new MicroAgent(...); // or BrowserAgent
    // start agent on mount
    agent.start();
    // stop agent on unmount
    return () => {
        agent.stop();
    }
},[]);

return <Component/>
}

[workato-integration]

https://new-relic.atlassian.net/browse/NR-362621