Add a span around Django rest framework authentication

[angusholder]

Problem Statement

In Sentry Performance, when I look at the queries list in a performance event of an API view, the view.render event always begins with a few of the same queries, for looking up the auth token, and are rarely relevant. It would be better if those auth queries were in a separate span, to reduce visual noise.

Solution Brainstorm

I currently subclass the authentication class and add a span myself, like this:

class TracedTokenAuthentication(rest_framework.authentication.TokenAuthentication):
    def authenticate(self, request):
        with sentry_sdk.start_span(op='authenticate'):
            return super().authenticate(request)

The disadvantage of this is you can use multiple authentications, and each would need modifying. A better place for the span is probably rest_framework.request.Request._authenticate, which loops over all configured authentications.

[sl0thentr0py]

@angusholder makes sense, feel free to PR and add a simliar patch here

sentry-python/sentry_sdk/integrations/django/__init__.py

Lines 301 to 317 in 411c9f3

	try:
	from rest_framework.views import APIView # type: ignore
	except ImportError:
	pass
	else:
	old_drf_initial = APIView.initial
	def sentry_patched_drf_initial(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
	# type: (APIView, Any, *Any, **Any) -> Any
	with capture_internal_exceptions():
	request._request._sentry_drf_request_backref = weakref.ref(
	request
	)
	pass
	return old_drf_initial(self, request, *args, **kwargs)
	APIView.initial = sentry_patched_drf_initial

if you want it quicker, otherwise I'll put it on our backlog