Setting Up AppSignal Monitoring for a Ruby on Rails Application
In this video Leigh Halliday (https://www.youtube.com/leighhalliday) shows how to integrate AppSignal into a Rails application. He covers installation and setup, how to troubleshoot and fix performance issues, specifically showing a common use-case with N+1 queries. He then shows AppSignal's Sidekiq integration along with its magic dashboard, managing and reporting anomalies, custom instrumentation, and how to handle error reporting.
Here's the timeline:
00:00 - Introduction to our Rails app
03:35 - Installing AppSignal
06:10 - AppSignal dashboard overview
08:15 - Troubleshooting performance
10:30 - Fixing N+1 queries
15:00 - Sidekiq and AppSignal
17:15 - Anomaly detection
19:00 - Custom instrumentation
20:55 - Errors and error handling
23:15 - Overview of functionality