Metrics on the Active Job dashboard

Metric title	Description
Job status per queue	View how many jobs in the queue have been processed or failed.
Job status per queue scoped by priority	View how many jobs in the queue have been processed or failed per priority.
Throughput per job class	View throughput (the number of jobs) processed by Active Job classes.
Duration per job class	View the duration of Active Job classes.

Why set up Active Job monitoring?

With AppSignal's automated Active Job dashboard, you gain instant insights into the performance of your Rails application’s background jobs. With job count, throughput, and duration metrics, you can easily understand the health and status of your application's background jobs and be quickly notified when a job fails.

Solve common Active Job issues

AppSignal gives you instant insights into your application's metrics, helping you to answer important Active Job performance questions:

• Why aren’t perform_later jobs being executed?
• How many jobs are enqueued?
• What is the status of my background jobs?
• How long are my background jobs taking to execute?
• Why are my background jobs failing?

Monitor your Active Job metrics with AppSignal

A simple click on any point of any graph on your dashboard will give you an instant snapshot of your application at that point in time. Contextualize Active Job metrics by queue, priority, and class, with easy access to your application logs for even faster debugging.

Active Job dashboards will help you make proactive and data-driven decisions. You can set up triggers and get alerted when Active Jobs take too long to complete or begin to fail.

Ready to monitor your Active Job metrics?

Experience the power of AppSignal's Active Job monitoring in minutes! Simply sign up, install AppSignal, and we'll automatically create dashboards that track your application's Active Job metrics and help you get the answers you need for your monitoring questions!