`request_timer` wasn't giving as in-depth data as I was looking for. In particular, because it had a fixed metric name, there was no way to identify what operations were slow. It was instead just looking at all operations in aggregate.

If you'd rather, I can move the `log.info` statement from `request_timer` into this function. However, it seems like the splunk logging can be more consistent the way it's set up now.