---
title: Automatic Sidekiq monitoring dashboard
date: "2025-06-27"
publisher: Honeybadger
tags:
  - Ruby
  - Rails
  - Sidekiq
url: "https://www.honeybadger.io/changelog/sidekiq-monitoring-dashboard/"
---

When Sidekiq jobs pile up, you need fast answers. [Honeybadger Insights](https://docs.honeybadger.io/guides/insights/) already makes it easy to query your [Rails performance data](https://docs.honeybadger.io/lib/ruby/getting-started/sending-events-to-insights/#event-captures), including Sidekiq performance. But it can be hard to know where to start—until now. We just added [a new Sidekiq dashboard](https://docs.honeybadger.io/guides/dashboards/sidekiq) to Honeybadger.

![Screenshot of a Sidekiq dashboard showing background job monitoring metrics including 136,810 successful jobs and 13,526 failures. The interface displays job counts over time for different worker classes (UnbarableJob, SpamUserJob, SendEmailJob, etc.), job durations averaging around 1.2 seconds, and duration distribution charts, providing comprehensive insights into background job performance and system health.](https://www-files.honeybadger.io/changelog/sidekiq-monitoring-dashboard/sidekiq-monitoring-dashboard-card-2400x1254.png)  
_Honeybadger's Sidekiq monitoring dashboard_

The Sidekiq dashboard gives you immediate visibility into your background job performance without any custom configuration, and the charts are a great starting point when investigating slowdowns and other issues. The dashboard automatically captures and visualizes your Sidekiq job performance, including:

- **Job volume**: Monitor job counts over time by worker class
- **Performance trends**: Visualize performance patterns with job durations and distributions
- **Success/failure metrics**: View comprehensive worker statistics with totals and averages
- **Bottlenecks**: Spot the 10 slowest job runs with execution details

## Monitoring Sidekiq performance in Honeybadger

Honeybadger automatically instruments your Sidekiq jobs when you enable Insights in the [Honeybadger Ruby gem](https://docs.honeybadger.io/lib/ruby/). To get started, update to gem version `>= 5.11` and enable Insights in your `config/honeybadger.yml`:

```yaml
insights: enabled: true
```

Once enabled, select "Sidekiq" from the [Ruby automatic dashboard templates](https://docs.honeybadger.io/guides/dashboards/) in your Honeybadger project.

The new Sidekiq dashboard is available immediately for all Honeybadger accounts. Check out our Ruby gem docs for more details on HB's [automatic Rails instrumentation](https://docs.honeybadger.io/lib/ruby/getting-started/sending-events-to-insights/).

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