Application Performance Monitoring

We collect metrics about the performance of our Ruby on Rails app, such as throughput, latency or error rates of the various components we use in this app.

An entry point to view those metrics is our Application Performance Overview Dashboard on https://obs-measure.opensuse.org/

You can login with your GitHub account and should get the Editor role.

Our APM stack consists of:

InfluxDB and influxdb-rails gem

The metrics are stored into InfluxDB with the influxdb-rails gem. The data source is InfluxDB-Rails.

The gem consume the events that Rails instruments by default and stores them directly to InfluxDB using the configuration defined in our application.

Additional Tags

Additionally to the tags and values stored by influxdb-rails we also track this data for every measurement:

Tags:

{
  interface: :webui # [:api, :webui, :job, :clock, :backend]
  beta: false # [true, false]
  anonymous: false # [true, false]
}

OBS Backend instrumentation

We also measure the OBS backend responses with our custom influxdb-rails subscriber.