Stalled Resque Worker Monitoring on Heroku

Question

I am using Resque on Heroku with Heroku Redis. Occasionally and intermittently, the Resque workers are stalling. There are no errors; the workers just don't do anything (it seems). Restarting the dynos fixes the issue.

At the moment, I am less concerned about fixing the root cause of the issue, and more interested in setting up some kind of monitoring that will catch these issues. My Google skills are failing me on the topic.

What are the recommended tools and/or approaches for monitoring Resque Workers and alerting me if they are stalled?

Answer 1

One of the most popular ones is god https://github.com/mojombo/god resque even has a wiki mention about it. The other one is monit , but personally I have only had experience with god . They provide strong documentation where what you are looking for (notification for problematic workers) is described. http://godrb.com/ Look for NOTIFICATIONS on the doc page. Hope this helps and puts you on the right path.