Tracing SQL Queries with X-Ray and Spring Boot 2 - spring-boot

Question

The current X-Ray SQL tracing interceptor uses Tomcat JDBC Pool but Spring Boot 2 uses HikariCP as default pool, is it possible to configure the jdbc tracing in HikariCP instead?
Here (https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=254847) they suggest to use both Datasources:
DataSource dataSource = new org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.DataSource();
HikariDataSource hikariDataSource = new HikariDataSource();
... // data source configuration
dataSource.setJdbcInterceptors("com.amazonaws.xray.sql.postgres.TracingInterceptor;");
hikariDataSource.setDataSource(dataSource);
But if I have the HikariCP library in the classpath spring will configure that as datasource.
I've tried with a DatasourceBuilder and also forcing the type using the parameter spring.datasource.type
Any hint?

Answer 1

In Spring boot , you can use still use Tomcat over HikariCP as connection pool:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-jdbc</artifactId>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>com.zaxxer</groupId>
<artifactId>HikariCP</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat-jdbc</artifactId>
</dependency>

Answer 2

We are currently investigating a solution that will work with both Tomcat JDBC and HikariCP. We are aware that there are currently no work arounds without having Tomcat JDBC as a dependency. Please stay tuned.

Answer 3

Resolved the same using TracingDataSource, while still using HikariCP as the connection pool
Reference https://github.com/aws/aws-xray-sdk-java/issues/88#issuecomment-570328275
Code: (Note, I am using AWS Secrets Manager JDBC Library aws-secretsmanager-jdbc to connect to the database using secrets stored in AWS Secrets Manager)
import com.amazonaws.xray.sql.TracingDataSource;
...
...
#Bean
#ConfigurationProperties(prefix = "spring.datasource")
public DataSource dataSource() {
return TracingDataSource
.decorate(DataSourceBuilder.create()
.driverClassName("com.amazonaws.secretsmanager.sql.AWSSecretsManagerPostgreSQLDriver")
.url("jdbc-secretsmanager:postgresql://" + System.getenv("PGHOST") + ":"
+ System.getenv("PGPORT") + "/" + System.getenv("PGDATABASE"))
.username(System.getenv("SECRET_NAME")).build());
}
Dependency:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
<artifactId>aws-xray-recorder-sdk-sql</artifactId>
</dependency>