Feature Request: Support Sidekiq about skylight-ruby

[wagenet]

@jfelchner currently we have 6 engineers on our team, three of which are senior, of which two are largely occupied with consulting. While I agree that three years seems like a long time, we actually don't have much time to rest. We are working on hiring more engineers, but as you're probably aware, good seniors are hard to come by.

Rest assured that we haven't forgotten about Sidekiq support. We know how much you, and many of our other customers, and even we ourselves want first class support for it.

Thanks again for being a paying customer and sorry that we don't yet have something to offer here.

[jfelchner]

@wagenet I don't feel that closing this issue with a "won't fix now but maybe someday" is appropriate. I also feel like this is the perfect place to track interest rather than having everyone email [email protected]. Sidekiq is the most popular queuing library for Ruby. Not supporting it is a non-starter for many apps who want to use Skylight.

Saying that it's a "new product" doesn't make any sense to me. You have resque support and sidekiq-skylight does a decent job with the existing UI. If you want to break it off into a "new product" later, then cool, but I don't think it's reasonable to say "Well if we put it into Skylight as-is, it isn't going to be perfect, so we're not going to do it at all."

If Skylight was open source alone and you were doing this in your spare time, then it'd be one thing, but it's a paid product (I currently have three paying accounts) and it's been almost three years since this issue was first opened. Therefore the "we haven't been able to allocate resources" rings a little hollow to me.

Thanks for the work on Skylight!

[psugihara]

This is sweet, thank you.

[wagenet]

First-class support for Sidekiq is planned for the future.

[wagenet]

I'm closing this ticket for now. If you'd like to get your account marked as wanting Sidekiq support, please email [email protected] or click the "?" button in the app UI and send us a message.

[krainboltgreene]

It's the future calling, is there first class support?

[wagenet]

@krainboltgreene not yet. We care about it, but it doesn't fit into the current model of instrumenting user-facing requests. It's essentially a new product (though with some shared infrastructure) and we haven't yet had the resources to allocate to it. Believe me, we would love to be able to support Sidekiq and other background jobs. It's a regular point of conversation for us. See also https://www.skylight.io/support/faqs#can-i-instrument-background-jobs-like-sidekiq.

[krainboltgreene]

That's great to hear @wagenet. For anyone else looking sidekiq-skylight works well for the moment.

[wagenet]

@krainboltgreene yeah, that does work for certain cases and if it works in yours, great!