Ignore instrumentation
Sometimes you have very large background jobs that generate thousands of repeated queries over and over again. In this case not all the information the instrumentation records is as important as elsewhere in the application.
To filter out some of these instrumentation events from being send to AppSignal you can tell the Ruby gem to stop instrumenting a block of code.
class BackgroundWorker def perform site = Site.find(1) 10_000.times do Appsignal.without_instrumentation do site.perform_many_queries end end end end
The code above will only instrument the Site.find(1)
query and ignore all the
queries generated by perform_many_queries
.