Metrics on the Sidekiq dashboard

Metric title	Description
Overall job status	Displays the overall status of jobs in Sidekiq.
Job status per queue	Shows job status per queue in Sidekiq.
Throughput per worker	The number of transactions being processed by Sidekiq workers.
Duration per worker	The average time it takes a Sidekiq worker to process a transaction.
Queue length in Sidekiq	The length of the queue for a given hostname and queue name.
Queue latency in Sidekiq	The time that has passed from the moment a job is added to the queue to when it began processing.
Worker/Processes count	The number of workers and processes for a given hostname.
Connection count	The number of connections for a given hostname.

Why set up Sidekiq monitoring?

AppSignal's automated Sidekiq dashboard gives you instant insights into critical metrics that help you scale your cluster more easily. With throughput, duration, memory, and status metrics, you can quickly visualize failed, retried, dead and successful jobs, and inspect how individual jobs and workers perform.

Solve common Sidekiq issues

AppSignal unlocks deep insights into your application's current state to help you answer important Sidekiq performance questions:

• Why did my Sidekiq queue spike?
• What is the status of Sidekiq's jobs?
• Why isn’t my queue being processed?
• Why is it taking so long to process enqueued jobs?

Monitor your Sidekiq Metrics with AppSignal

A simple click on any point of any graph on your Sidekiq dashboard will give you an instant snapshot of your application at that point in time. Dive deep into performance, diagnose issues, and investigate errors with easy access to your application logs for even faster debugging.

AppSignal dashboards give you the insights needed to make proactive and data-driven decisions. You can also stay ahead of issues by setting up triggers to alert you when your queue gets too long.

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