Integrating opbeat with sails - sails.js

Question

I'm trying to integrate opbeat with sails.js. They have a node.js client which includes middleware support for Connect and Express.
I've tried to create a custom middleware in http.js
module.exports.http = {
middleware: {
opbeat : require('opbeat')({
organizationId: '...',
appId: '...',
secretToken: '...'
}),
order: [
'opbeat',
'startRequestTimer',
'cookieParser',
'session',
'myRequestLogger',
'bodyParser',
'handleBodyParserError',
'compress',
'methodOverride',
'poweredBy',
'$custom',
'router',
'www',
'favicon',
'404',
'500'
],
}
};
Unfortunately it doesn't work. If you could please help point me in the right direction.

Answer 1

The value returned from the initializer function isn't a proper middleware function (it's just an Opbeat client). To get the middleware function, call middleware.connect() on the client:
var opbeat = require('opbeat')({
organizationId: '...',
appId: '...',
secretToken: '...'
})
module.exports.http = {
middleware: {
opbeat: opbeat.middleware.connect(), // get the Opbeat middleware function
order: [
... // put the bulk of your middleware here
'opbeat'
]
}
}
P.S. The function is called middleware.connect() because it was the connect module that set the standard of having a middleware function that expects the 3 arguments; Request, Response and Callback. An alias exists that is called middleware.express() - but it's just that: An alias.
Update:
I reversed the order of the middleware in the example above so that Opbeat is placed at the end. This is important to that that it can catch errors tickling down the middleware-chain.