/notable

Extraordinary insight into your users and background jobs

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Notable

🌟 Extraordinary insight into your users and background jobs

Wouldn’t it be great to see when one of your users encounters an error, timeout, or validation failure? Now you can - directly in your admin pages.

Introducing Notable

Notable tracks notable requests and background jobs and stores them in your database. What makes a request or job notable? There are a number of default situations, but ultimately you decide what interests you.

By default, Notable tracks:

  • errors
  • 404s
  • slow requests and jobs
  • timeouts
  • validation failures
  • CSRF failures
  • unpermitted parameters
  • blocked and throttled requests

You can track custom notes as well.

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Installation

Add this line to your application’s Gemfile:

gem 'notable'

And run:

rails generate notable:requests
rails generate notable:jobs
rails db:migrate

To explore the data, check out Blazer.

Requests

A Notable::Request is created for:

  • errors
  • 404s
  • slow requests
  • timeouts
  • validation failures
  • CSRF failures
  • unpermitted parameters
  • blocked and throttled requests

For timeouts, use Slowpoke.

For blocked and throttled requests, use Rack Attack.

Jobs

Wouldn’t it be great to have a record of exact jobs that fail?

A Notable::Job is created for:

  • errors
  • slow jobs
  • validation failures

Manual Tracking

Notable.track(note_type, note)

Like

Notable.track("Auth Event", "Signed In")

Customize

Disable tracking in certain environments

Notable.enabled = Rails.env.production?

Requests

Set slow threshold

Notable.slow_request_threshold = 5.seconds

Custom user method

Notable.user_method = lambda do |env|
  env["warden"].try(:user) || env["action_controller.instance"].try(:current_visit)
end

Custom track method

Notable.track_request_method = lambda do |data, env|
  Notable::Request.create!(data)
end

Skip tracking CSRF failures

skip_before_action :track_unverified_request

Anonymize IP addresses

Notable.mask_ips = true

Jobs

Set slow threshold

Notable.slow_job_threshold = 60.seconds

To set a threshold for a specific job, use:

class CustomJob < ApplicationJob
  def notable_slow_job_threshold
    5.minutes
  end
end

Custom track method

Notable.track_job_method = lambda do |data|
  Notable::Job.create!(data)
end

Contributing

Everyone is encouraged to help improve this project. Here are a few ways you can help:

To get started with development:

git clone https://github.com/ankane/notable.git
cd notable
bundle install