(ReachLocal) Sidekiq Cleaner

For additional documentation, see the Sidekiq repository

Motivation

Sidekiq is a very performant library for handling background processing of jobs, but could use with an improved UI for managing job statuses. The Capture team, found ourselves utilizing the resque-cleaner gem frequently to manage our job processing, and felt that this should be included in the Sidekiq library. What is included here is a fork of the Sidekiq library with some tweaks to the Web rails engine under a new Cleaner namespace.

Installation

gem install sidekiq-cleaner

Usage

Mount the Cleaner engine in the config/routes.rb file like so:

Rails.application.routes.draw do
  mount Sidekiq::Cleaner => '/cleaner'
end

The web UI should appear familiar to users of the Sidekiq job library - the only difference is that a new Cleaner tab is introduced:

cleaner.png

This tab introduces a useful UI for managing job failures (as filtered by class and exception) en masse - which was only supported for one-off retries and deletes in the vanilla library. Perhaps a future release of Sidekiq will improve on this functionality!

cleaner-stats.png

Useful resources:

  • Product documentation is in the wiki.
  • Release announcements are made to the @sidekiq Twitter account.
  • The Sidekiq tag on Stack Overflow has lots of useful Q & A.

Thanks

Sidekiq stays fast by using the JProfiler java profiler to find and fix performance problems on JRuby. Unfortunately MRI does not have good multithreaded profiling tools.

License

MIT

Author

Dan Belling, [email protected], http://www.danbelling.me