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AppSignal apm for Ruby
AppSignal solves all your Ruby monitoring needs in a single tool. You and your team can focus on writing code and we'll provide the alerts if your app has any issues.
Description
The AppSignal gem collects exceptions and performance data from your Ruby applications and sends it to AppSignal for analysis. Get alerted when an error occurs or an endpoint is responding very slowly.
AppSignal aims to provide a one stop solution to all your monitoring needs. Track metrics from your servers with our Host metrics and graph everything else with our Custom metrics feature.
Usage
First make sure you've installed AppSignal in your application by following the steps in Installation.
AppSignal will automatically monitor requests, report any exceptions that are thrown and any performance issues that might have occurred.
You can also add extra information to requests by adding custom instrumentation and by adding tags.
Track any error
Catch any error and report it to AppSignal, even if it doesn't crash a request.
begin
config = File.read("config.yml")
rescue => e
Appsignal.report_error(e)
# Load alternative config
config = { :name => ENV["NAME"] }
end
Read more about Exception handling in our documentation.
Tagging
Need more information with errors and performance issues? Add tags to your requests to identify common factors for problems.
Appsignal.add_tags(
:user => current_user.id,
:locale => I18n.locale
)
Read more about Tagging in our documentation.
Custom instrumentation
If you need more fine-grained instrumentation you can add custom instrumentation anywhere in your code.
# Simple instrumentation
Appsignal.instrument("array_to_hash.expensive_logic", "Complex calculations") do
array = [["a", 1], ["b", 2], ["c", 3]]
Hash[array]
end
# Add the query that you're monitoring
sql = "SELECT * FROM posts ORDER BY created_at DESC LIMIT 1"
Appsignal.instrument("fetch.custom_database", "Fetch latest post", sql) do
# ...
end
# Nested instrumentation calls are also supported!
Appsignal.instrument("fetch.custom_database", "Fetch current user") do
# ...
Appsignal.instrument("write.custom_database", "Write user update") do
# ...
end
end
Read more about custom instrumentation in our documentation.
Installation
First, sign up for an AppSignal account and add the
appsignal
gem to your Gemfile
. Then, run bundle install
.
# Gemfile
gem "appsignal"
Afterward, you can use the appsignal install
command to install AppSignal
into your application by using the "Push API key". This will guide you through
our installation wizard.
appsignal install [push api key]
Depending on what framework or gems you use some manual integration is required. Follow the steps in the wizard or consult our integrations page for help.
If you're stuck feel free to contact us!
Supported frameworks and gems
AppSignal automatically supports a collection of Ruby frameworks and gems, including but not limited to:
- Ruby on Rails
- Rack
- Sinatra
- Padrino
- Grape
- Webmachine
- Capistrano
- Sidekiq
- Delayed Job
- Resque
- Rake
AppSignal instrumentation doesn't depend on automatic integrations. It's easy to set up custom instrumentation to add keep track of anything.
For more detailed information and examples please visit our integrations page.
Supported systems
Currently the AppSignal agent works on most Unix-like operating systems, such as most Linux distributions, FreeBSD, macOS, excluding Microsoft Windows.
For more detailed information please visit our Supported systems page.
Releases
Following the process below to release a new version of the Ruby gem.
- Make sure mono is installed by following the installation instructions.
- Run:
mono publish
- Mono will automatically bump the version number based on the
.changesets/
. - Mono will automatically update the
CHANGELOG.md
file based on the.changesets/
.
- Mono will automatically bump the version number based on the
- Confirm with your two-factor authentication token for Rubygems.org, twice.
Development
Installation
Make sure you have Bundler installed and then use the Rake install task to install all possible dependencies.
# Install Bundler
gem install bundler
# Bootstrap the project
mono bootstrap
# Install the AppSignal extension and _all_ gems we support.
bundle exec rake install
# Only install the AppSignal extension.
bundle exec rake extension:install
Git source for Bundler
When specifying a git source for the AppSignal gem in Bundler we do not support JRuby. This is because our gemspec defaults to the Ruby implementation for installing the AppSignal C-extension.
# Gemfile
gem "appsignal",
:git => "https://github.com/appsignal/appsignal-ruby.git",
:branch => "main"
When you need to use a git source of the gem in your JRuby install, you'll need to run the following to install the C-extension on JRuby. Note that this post-install step is not possible on platforms such as Heroku where the app is sent through a deploy pipeline and the app is started immediately after.
bundle install
(cd $(bundle show appsignal)/ext && rake)
Testing
bundle exec rspec
# Or with one file
bundle exec rspec spec/lib/appsignal_spec.rb
Note that some specs depend on certain other gems to run and if they are not loaded RSpec will not run them. See also Testing with other gems.
Testing with other gems
AppSignal runs in many different configurations. To replicate these configurations you need to run the spec suite with a specific Gemfile.
BUNDLE_GEMFILE=gemfiles/capistrano2.gemfile bundle exec rspec
BUNDLE_GEMFILE=gemfiles/capistrano3.gemfile bundle exec rspec
BUNDLE_GEMFILE=gemfiles/dry-monitor.gemfile bundle exec rspec
BUNDLE_GEMFILE=gemfiles/grape.gemfile bundle exec rspec
BUNDLE_GEMFILE=gemfiles/hanami.gemfile bundle exec rspec
BUNDLE_GEMFILE=gemfiles/http5.gemfile bundle exec rspec
BUNDLE_GEMFILE=gemfiles/no_dependencies.gemfile bundle exec rspec
BUNDLE_GEMFILE=gemfiles/padrino.gemfile bundle exec rspec
BUNDLE_GEMFILE=gemfiles/que.gemfile bundle exec rspec
BUNDLE_GEMFILE=gemfiles/que_beta.gemfile bundle exec rspec
BUNDLE_GEMFILE=gemfiles/rails-3.2.gemfile bundle exec rspec
BUNDLE_GEMFILE=gemfiles/rails-4.0.gemfile bundle exec rspec
BUNDLE_GEMFILE=gemfiles/rails-4.1.gemfile bundle exec rspec
BUNDLE_GEMFILE=gemfiles/rails-4.2.gemfile bundle exec rspec
BUNDLE_GEMFILE=gemfiles/rails-5.0.gemfile bundle exec rspec
BUNDLE_GEMFILE=gemfiles/rails-5.1.gemfile bundle exec rspec
BUNDLE_GEMFILE=gemfiles/rails-5.2.gemfile bundle exec rspec
BUNDLE_GEMFILE=gemfiles/rails-6.0.gemfile bundle exec rspec
BUNDLE_GEMFILE=gemfiles/resque-1.gemfile bundle exec rspec
BUNDLE_GEMFILE=gemfiles/resque-2.gemfile bundle exec rspec
BUNDLE_GEMFILE=gemfiles/sequel-435.gemfile bundle exec rspec
BUNDLE_GEMFILE=gemfiles/sequel.gemfile bundle exec rspec
BUNDLE_GEMFILE=gemfiles/sinatra.gemfile bundle exec rspec
BUNDLE_GEMFILE=gemfiles/webmachine.gemfile bundle exec rspec
BUNDLE_GEMFILE=gemfiles/redis-4.gemfile bundle exec rspec
BUNDLE_GEMFILE=gemfiles/redis-5.gemfile bundle exec rspec
If you have either RVM, rbenv or chruby installed you
can also use rake build_matrix:local:generate
to generate a script that runs
specs for all Ruby versions and gem combinations we support.
We run the suite against all of the Gemfiles mentioned above and on a number of different Ruby versions.
Versioning
This gem uses Semantic Versioning.
The main
branch corresponds to the current stable release of the gem.
The develop
branch is used for development of features that will end up in
the next minor release.
Open a Pull Request on the main
branch if you're fixing a bug. For new new
features, open a Pull Request on the develop
branch.
Every stable and unstable release is tagged in git with a version tag.
Contributing
Thinking of contributing to our gem? Awesome! 🚀
Please follow our Contributing guide in our documentation and follow our Code of Conduct.
Also, we would be very happy to send you Stroopwafles. Have look at everyone we send a package to so far on our Stroopwafles page.
Support
Contact us and speak directly with the engineers working on AppSignal. They will help you get set up, tweak your code and make sure you get the most out of using AppSignal.
Also see our SUPPORT.md file.