why is the URL of got requests showing as 'unknownhost' in AWS?

[mverkerk-godaddy]

Hi all - i have a weird issue when using the got library in my AWS Lambda code (the code is used for cloudwatch-synthetics canaries, in case you're familiar). Previously, I used node-fetch, request, and others and in the AWS UI i could always see the URL of any outgoing http requests - AWS synthetics must be capturing them somehow - but now that i'm using got, the URLs are showing up as https://unknownhost ... can anybody think of a reason why this may be the case? why is this happening with 'got' but not with clients?

Thanks so much for any ideas/tips!

[sindresorhus]

the issue is that AWS X-Ray SDK (which CloudWatch Synthetics uses) doesn't properly extract the hostname when got passes a URL object as the first argument to http.request().

got calls http.request(url, options) with a URL object as the first arg (line 1227 in source/core/index.ts), but AWS X-Ray's hostname extraction logic expects options.hostname or options.host to be set in the options object itself.

this is an AWS X-Ray SDK limitation, not a got bug.