Joyful Observability for Sidekiq in Ruby on Rails

Adding observability for Sidekiq can be difficult in your Rails app. And yet it's critical to understanding how your jobs are performing in production. Many engineers have to reinvent the wheel, writing custom middleware. In this course, I'll cover the fundamentals I've discovered over 3 years of working with real Rails apps.

You'll learn:

• How adding observability to your Sidekiq install can help become more proactive and save a ton of engineer time and frustration
• The 4 main tools I use to instrument Sidekiq
• Why recording context is critical to understanding your system
• Advice to handle errors and how you can stop noisy errors that you end up muting
• How to scrub sensitive data from your instrumentation
• The importance of visualisation and how it can help your team debug