Apps on Elixir OTP 21 don't report data
Affected components
- AppSignal for Elixir package versions:
v1.6.5and earlier - Apps running OTP 21 or higher
Description
After upgrading to Erlang/OTP 21 and using an older AppSignal for Elixir package, no data is reported from the app. The issue was reported on our issue tracker.
The following warning will be printed to the application's log on start up. This indicates that our extension couldn't start AppSignal with the required config and is not starting.
WARNING: Error when reading appsignal config, appsignal not starting: Required environment variable '_APPSIGNAL_PUSH_API_KEY' not present
This is caused by a change in OTP 21 where the system environment can no longer be modified for processes booted by the application. AppSignal relied on this feature as a configuration method, causing AppSignal to no longer start on OTP 21.
In version 1.6.6 we fixed most config options to be read by our extension in a different way, and in 1.6.7 all options were updated to be configured this way. We do not recommend using version 1.6.6.
Symptoms
The following warning will be printed to the application's log on start up. This indicates that our extension couldn't start AppSignal with the required config and is not starting.
WARNING: Error when reading appsignal config, appsignal not starting: Required environment variable '_APPSIGNAL_PUSH_API_KEY' not present
(The underscore prefixed version of the environment variable is the internally used version, do not attempt to configure it instead of APPSIGNAL_PUSH_API_KEY.)
Solution
Upgrade to AppSignal for Elixir package version 1.6.7 or higher. We recommend upgrading to the latest version.