Sidekiq Integration

How to configure rollbar-gem to work with Sidekiq

Add the following in config/initializers/rollbar.rb:

config.use_sidekiq

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Sidekiq 6.4 and later

For current versions of Sidekiq, async_json_payload must be set in the Rollbar config. In the next major version release of Rollbar-gem, this will become the default.

config.async_json_payload = true

The default Sidekiq queue will be rollbar but you can also supply custom Sidekiq options:

config.use_sidekiq 'queue' => 'default'

You also need to add the name of the queue to your sidekiq.yml

:queues:
- default
- rollbar

Start the redis server:

$ redis-server

Start Sidekiq from the root directory of your Rails app and declare the name of your queue. Unless you've configured otherwise, the queue name is "rollbar":

$ bundle exec sidekiq -q rollbar

For every errored job a new report will be sent to Rollbar API, also for errored retried jobs. You can configure the retries threshold to start reporting to rollbar:

config.sidekiq_threshold = 3 # Start reporting from 3 retries jobs

Running Sidekiq jobs with a different Rollbar config

Most setups will run the Sidekiq job processes using the same Rollbar config as the main app processes. However, if using a different config, and if that config uses a different Rollbar access token, the token in the Sidekiq Rollbar config will be used to send Rollbar occurrences.

To send using the access token that was originally set for each occurrence, set config.use_payload_access_token = true in the Rollbar config for the Sidekiq job process.

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For more information on rollbar-gem, please see the docs here.