Ruby APM with Scalingo
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Article summary

This document details how to install the Ruby APM Profiler in your Ruby application running on Scalingo.

Ruby Application Setup

Add Stackify APM Module

Modify application Gemfile:

gem 'stackify-ruby-apm'

Configure Application

Add config/stackify_apm.yml to your application, modify application_name and environment_name.

application_name: 'Ruby Application'
environment_name: 'Production'

Rails

Profiler will startup automatically, no additional configuration.

Non-Rails

Include StackifyRubyAPM::Middleware when starting your application:

# config.ru

require 'stackify-ruby-apm'
use StackifyRubyAPM::Middleware
StackifyRubyAPM.start

# application startup

at_exit { StackifyRubyAPM.stop }

Add Buildpack

Add/Create .buildpacks file with following line at the top:

https://github.com/stackify/heroku-buildpack-stackify.git

Configure Buildpack

In the Scalingo UI add the following Environment variables:

STACKIFY_KEY=XXXXXXXXXX
STACKIFY_APPLICATION_NAME=Ruby Application
STACKIFY_ENVIRONMENT_NAME=Production

Set STACKIFY_KEY to your Stackify Activation Key.

Verify

Deploy changes to Scalingo and make requests. You can then verify results in the Retrace dashboard.


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