Improvements for AppSignal shutdown behavior

Added

• Add the enable_at_exit_hook option to configure if Appsignal.stop is called when the Ruby application exits. Calling Appsignal.stop will stop the application for a moment to flush all the data to our agent before shutting down.

  This option has three possible values:

  • always: Always call Appsignal.stop when the program exits. On (Docker) containers it's automatically set to this value.
  • never: Never call Appsignal.stop when the program exits. The default value when the program doesn't run on a (Docker) container.
  • on_error: Call Appsignal.stop when the program exits with an error.

Deprecated

• Deprecate the Appsignal.monitor_and_stop helper.

  We instead recommend using the Appsignal.monitor helper and configuring the enable_at_exit_hook config option to always.

View the Ruby gem v4.5.8 changelog for more information.