Monitoring Sidekiq Job Performance with AppSignal

A practical guide to monitoring Sidekiq background job performance using AppSignal. Covers the key metrics that matter — job duration, queue latency, and error rate vs. retry count — and explains why Sidekiq's built-in dashboard misses critical signals like silent retries. Walks through adding the AppSignal gem to a Ruby project, configuring automatic tracking, and setting up anomaly detection triggers for slow actions, error rate increases, and queue time thresholds to get alerted before users notice problems.