Rails monitoring tools

New Relic New Relic is the all-in-one web application performance tool that lets you see performance from the end user experience down to the line of application code.

It will also list the errors if such occurrence occur. Rack-Bug It is a debugging toolbar for Rack applications implemented as middleware. Sidekiq Sidekiq uses threads to handle many jobs at the same time in the same process.

Firebug Firebug is a firefox plugin and a very powerful tool. Apart from many outstanding features, it helps to monitor network performance. You can see the load time of each files when they started to load and when they are completed , filter it by type e. So far so good, you can suggest more. App Monitoring Ruby on Rails.

Already a Librato user? Sign in to get started. Performance tuning for your Rails apps is just one gem away. Simple setup. Preconfigured Ruby on Rails dashboard. Support for custom measurements. About Ruby on Rails Monitoring Preconfigured and customizable dashboards for an elegant display into how your app is performing alerting and notifications too.

On top of a dedicated UI, they provide Instrumental Query Language that allows end-users to aggregate, transform and time-shift all the data gathered. Summing up, Instrumentalapp offers a complex APM solution for Ruby on Rails application performance monitoring, as well as rich infrastructure monitoring options. However, it comes with a price not suited for small starting projects but scales nicely for big enterprises. New Relic is one of the most popular choices for APM solutions world-wide.

I did not manage to break down the cheapest plans costs into the price of k metrics a month - if you know how to do that, please leave me a comment. Uptime is everything. Summing up, New Relic is by far one of the most complex solutions on the market. Both wide-world usage and the big corporate structure speak in its favor. Despite the lack of an actual pricing comparison data, it is worth mentioning that this solution is not recognized as cheap on the Internet.

RoRvsWild is a dedicated Ruby on Rails application performance monitoring solution. Slow and unreliable websites lose customers. RoRvsWild monitors the performances and errors of your Ruby on Rails applications, and provides you with insights to optimize what matters. Strong sell points of the product are the fact, that its a dedicated Rails monitoring solution and ridiculously generous free tier. On their official Github organization account, they host an open-sourced gem rorvswild dedicated to integrating with their cloud monitoring services.

Their web UI is slick, intuitive and very easy to catch up with, and I foresee a bright future for this product when combining this fact with their freemium scope.

Summing up, RoRvsWild despite being very young, seems very promising and prospectful. I especially recommend using it for monitoring the performance of small, rising Ruby on Rails applications. It heavily focuses on maintaining simplicity in its dashboards, which saves us a lot of time when analyzing our Ruby on Rails application performance.

Trends at a glance. Endpoints to improve. Questions answered. Just the essentials. On their official Github organization website, they maintain an open-sourced skylight-ruby gem serving the sole purpose of communicating with their cloud servers.

That, combined with the fact that it is a dedicated Ruby on Rails monitoring solutions makes this service very attractive. A self-hosted tool to monitor the performance of your Ruby on Rails application. It is a relatively new project that has started in January , so the features are limited - it only allows real-time monitoring, with a data-retention period equal to your Redis' TTL. What I personally like to do in my Ruby on Rails projects is launching it in the development process and glance at the dashboard from time to time.

It is not a perfect solution, but still gives me some idea on how well the Ruby on Rails application performs, and can potentially point me in the right direction. Now that we went through our options for the Ruby on Rails application performance monitoring, the next step is to get the right tool for error and exception logging and analytics.

That's another branch of the market that is very well suited, which has roughly the same pros and cons as the APM part. AirBrake is one of the most popular choices not only for Ruby on Rails application monitoring but also for a wide range of other languages and frameworks.

It does not monitor only errors and exceptions raised in the Ruby on Rails application - just recently they've released a dedicated APM solution along with the main product. On their official Github organization account, they maintain an open-sourced gem airbrake dedicated to sending errors straight to their API.

What's worth mentioning, the gem equips Ruby on Rails in a very straightforward generator, a command-line tool that sets everything up with a single execution - neat. Airbrake's powerful error monitoring is lightweight and dead simple to set up so you can spend less time tracking down problems and more time developing. On top of that, it still is fully customizable - in its basic form it just reports uncaught exceptions, but you are free to send any other events you like.

Summing up, Airbrake is a solid choice for production-scale Ruby on Rails application errors and exceptions monitoring. Bugsnag is yet another widely used tool for Ruby on Rails application errors and exceptions monitoring. Like the previous one, it does not stop on Rails but is highly recognizable among other technologies, too - over 50 in total, as they say. Bugsnag monitors application stability so you can make data-driven decisions on whether you should be building new features, or fixing bugs.

One nice thing about it is that we have a choice between using their servers and hosting it on our own premises. On their official Github organization website, they host an open-sourced bugsnag-ruby gem responsible for communicating with their API.

Summing up, Bugsnag is a legit solution for whose quality speaks the fact that it supports many technologies. Combined with reasonable pricing that scales nicely, it seems like a good fit for medium to enterprise applications. Honeybadger is Ruby on Rails application monitoring for exceptions born from the frustration of the author's own Ruby on Rails project error. Honeybadger's authors used to use a tool called Hoptoad - now Airbrake - created by Thoughtbot and then sold.

When they got frustrated with its unreliability, they created Honeybadger, which is now officially bundled with one of the most popular open-source Rails Application Templates, Suspenders, authored by Thoughtbot.

On their official Github organization website, they host an open-sourced honeybadger-ruby gem dedicated to reporting errors to their API. Zero-instrumentation, degree coverage of errors, outages and service degradation. Deploy with confidence and be your team's devops hero.

Strong sell point of the tool is the fact that it started from Ruby on Rails application monitoring, and is created by Ruby on Rails developers. They emphasize being dedicated to smaller teams, which is exactly the case most of the time - and also a very good reason to use it from your Ruby on Rails application's production day 1.

Raygun is yet another platform that offers crash reporting for Ruby on Rails applications and other tools, among many other solutions. This is one of those full-spectrum solutions, that provides a wide range of things - APM, users' sessions monitoring and even some basic SEO analysis.

Raygun gives you visibility into how users are really experiencing your software. Detect, diagnose and resolve issues with greater speed and accuracy. One can easily see that this guy's agenda is so much more than simple errors and exceptions Ruby on Rails monitoring. Take into consideration that they're a jack of all trades which probably results in being master of none.

It'd be hard to be the best in everything, so from the errors and exceptions monitoring perspective, the dedicated, single-purpose solution might work better for you - at least in the beginning. On their official Github organization website, they host an open-sourced raygun4ruby gem dedicated to communicating with their API.

Summing up, Raygun is long-established on the market and definitely solid solution for Ruby on Rails application crashes monitoring. Rollbar is one of two solutions for Ruby on Rails application monitoring we've decided to include in Hix on Rails right from the start. It was due to the fact that it is very popular among the Ruby community, easy to set up and you can start using it for free. Spend less time worrying and more time on improving code. With Rollbar, you can feel safe knowing every error is reported in real-time.

It's worth noting that its offer is even more generous - in the annual plan you also get the first two months for free. On their official Github organization website, you can find an open-sourced rollbar-gem , and what's even better, you can follow our comprehensive, step by step tutorial on how to set up Rollbar as the Ruby on Rails application monitoring tool.

One thing I can tell from my own experience about Rollbar is that its Ruby gem, compared to its other open-source integrations, is just a little behind. There are some options available in other languages, such as for example PHP, and unavailable in Ruby. Don't be put off by that though - I can still honestly recommend using Rollbar for your Ruby on Rails application monitoring. Summing up, Rollbar is a very reliable, sophisticated solution - and I am telling you that from my own experience , as that's what I use daily at work.

Sentry is another Ruby on Rails application monitoring solution included in Hix on Rails from its start. Similar to Rollbar, we've decided to go with it due to being very popular among the Ruby on Rails community and offering a free start for everybody, no matter how big a project they develop. This is so true - I still run some of my not-so-popular side-projects with Sentry hooked up and easily manage to stay on the free plan.

Hooking up a tool like Sentry for Ruby on Rails application monitoring from its first day on production goes a long way - and you can easily do that following our step by step tutorial on how to set up Sentry in Ruby on Rails.

On their official Github organization profile, they host an open-sourced raven-ruby gem, that provides easy integration with their API. Summing up, and I am speaking from a pleasant experience as I browse my Sentry dashboard daily, it is a great tool - very generous pricing, just enough of the free plan and intuitive UI. If you decide not to pay for error and exception monitoring in your Ruby on Rails application for whatever reason, you can still access them easily via exception-track gem.

In my experience, it is especially useful for the development process, for exactly the same reasons as the aforementioned Rails Performance gem.