Ruby APM with Scalingo

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.