AppSignal for Hatchbox
Ship to your own stack. Skip the Heroku bill.
Hatchbox handles your deployments. AppSignal handles your monitoring. Everything you need to run a Rails app in production - without the Heroku price tag.
Error Tracking
Catch exceptions the moment they happen. Full stack traces, no guesswork.
Host Metrics
CPU, memory, disk - know what your server is doing when things go wrong.
Process Monitors
Sidekiq stopped? Puma down? Get alerted before your users notice.
What you get
Stop flying blind in production.
With Hatchbox and AppSignal together, get clear visibility into errors, infrastructure health, and background job reliability in one place.
Error Tracking
AppSignal captures every exception in your Rails app - with the full stack trace, request details, and host information to find the root cause fast.
Host Monitoring
See CPU, memory, disk, and network usage on the server running your Hatchbox app. Know whether it's your code or your infrastructure.
Check-ins
Background jobs and scheduled tasks silently failing? Not anymore. AppSignal alerts you the moment a process stops checking in.
Feature tours
See how easy server monitoring can be
Our quick feature tours, led by Chris (founder of GoRails and Hatchbox), show how Hatchbox and AppSignal help you stay on top of app and server health.
Two-minute tour
See how Hatchbox and AppSignal make it easy to monitor your apps and servers in just 120 seconds.
Database backup monitoring
Hatchbox and AppSignal make backup monitoring simple, with fast alerts when backups fail.
Cron job monitoring
Track scheduled jobs with confidence and get notified quickly when important critical tasks stop running unexpectedly.
Why Hatchbox + AppSignal
Everything you need to run Rails in production.
From deployment simplicity to deep production visibility, Hatchbox and AppSignal give you the full toolkit without enterprise bloat.
Your servers, made simple
Hatchbox turns your own VPS into a Heroku-like experience. AppSignal tells you what's happening on it.
Affordable by design
Run your app on your own infrastructure and monitor it with AppSignal, without the PaaS markup.
No DevOps degree required
Deploy, monitor, and debug your Rails app without ever touching a config file or SSH session.
Two-click setup
Connect AppSignal from your Hatchbox dashboard in seconds and start monitoring straight away.
Full AppSignal feature set
No limited tiers, no feature gating. Every Hatchbox customer gets access to everything AppSignal offers.
HIPAA & ISO compliant
Meet your compliance requirements without adding complexity to your stack.
Getting started
Up and running in minutes.
Getting started takes just a few minutes. Sign up, connect Hatchbox, and deploy - we'll handle the rest.
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Sign up for AppSignal
30-day free trial - all features included, no credit card required. Use code
hatchbox2026at checkout, or sign up via this page. - 2
Connect Hatchbox to AppSignal
Connect AppSignal in two clicks from Hatchbox. No config files, no digging through docs. Just click, connect, and you're good to go.
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Deploy and monitor
That's it! Within a few minutes and a couple of clicks you've got everything you need to manage your own stack like a pro.
Built for developers who want to own their stack, not rent it.
Hatchbox gives you PaaS simplicity on your own servers. AppSignal gives you the visibility to know exactly what's happening when something goes wrong. Your app, your servers, your monitoring.
What our customers say
Smooth Rails workflow
"Two years with Hatchbox and will never go back to Heroku again. No change in my day to day Rails development to production workflow."
Major cost savings
"Hatchbox is a dream! We just migrated our $2k per month Heroku app to a $300/m equivalent."
Easy Rails setup
"We find AppSignal is really easy to set-up for our Rails application. We use the default reports and charts to monitor errors and performance."
Deep Rails integration
"What separated AppSignal from all other monitoring providers was its deep integration with Rails."
What we set out to build
"Hatchbox was built to make Rails hosting simple, no DevOps expertise required, just your app running on your own servers.
AppSignal was built to give developers production visibility without the complexity or cost of enterprise monitoring tools.
Together, we make it easier than ever to own your stack and run it with confidence.
Built by developers, for developers."
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Unified Insights
See your full production picture in one place.
AppSignal unifies errors, host metrics, and process health so you can move from alert to root cause fast, without jumping between tools.
Error Tracking
Track exceptions, get error alerts, debug and fix bugs with ease.
Performance Monitoring
Monitor the performance of your slowest actions down to the nanosecond.
Host Monitoring
Monitoring for your servers: keep an eye on CPU, Disk, Network & more.
Anomaly Detection
Avoid surprises and set triggers for anomalies on any metric you'd like.
Uptime Monitoring
Get alerted in real-time when your application is down.
Metric Dashboards
Collect metrics from your code and chart them on interactive dashboards.
Log Management
Collect and manage logs in an easy-to-use interface.
Check-ins
Monitor your application's background jobs and processes.
MCP Server
Debug faster from your AI editor with direct access to AppSignal insights.
Built different
Why developers choose AppSignal
Built for Rails
AppSignal started as a Rails monitoring tool. Active Record, Sidekiq, Puma - all tracked out of the box
Expert support
Questions? You'll hear back from an engineer, not a support queue. We actually understand your stack.
For devs, by devs
We run AppSignal on AppSignal. Everything we build is something we'd want ourselves.
30-day free trial
Don't let bugs ruin your day. Try AppSignal free.
30-day free trial. No credit card required. Active Hatchbox customers get 10% off all monthly and annual plans.