---
title: Active Job performance monitoring for Rails
date: "2026-03-23"
publisher: Honeybadger
tags:
  - ActiveJob
  - Rails
  - Monitoring
  - Observability
url: "https://www.honeybadger.io/changelog/activejob-dashboard/"
---

When background jobs slow down and pile up, you often find out the hard way. The new **Active Job dashboard** gives you a real-time look at your job performance, powered by [Honeybadger Insights](https://docs.honeybadger.io/guides/insights/).

![Active Job dashboard showing 63 successes and 56 failures across 5 job classes, with charts for counts, durations, distributions, and a slowest job runs table.](https://www-files.honeybadger.io/changelog/activejob-dashboard/activejob-dashboard.png)

It works with Solid Queue, GoodJob, and any other Active Job backend. No extra configuration required.

## What's included

The dashboard has six pre-built widgets, which you can also add to your existing dashboards from the [widget library](https://docs.honeybadger.io/guides/dashboards/#widget-library):

- **Job status counts**: At-a-glance totals for successful and failed job executions
- **Job counts over time**: Volume by job class, plotted as a line chart
- **Average job duration**: How long each job class takes, averaged over time
- **Duration distributions**: A histogram showing the spread of durations by job class (binned at 100ms)
- **Job stats table**: Per-job-class breakdown of successes, failures, total execution time, and average execution time
- **10 slowest job runs**: The worst offenders, with job class, queue, status, and exact duration

## Getting started

Make sure you're on `honeybadger` gem `>= 6.3` with [event reporting enabled](https://docs.honeybadger.io/lib/ruby/getting-started/sending-events-to-insights/). Then add the Active Job dashboard from the dashboard selector in your Honeybadger project:

![Rails dashboard with a search dropdown open showing "activejob" query and an Active Job result under All Dashboards.](https://www-files.honeybadger.io/changelog/activejob-dashboard/activejob-dashboard-picker.png)

The Active Job dashboard is available now for all Honeybadger accounts. See the [Dashboards guide](https://docs.honeybadger.io/guides/dashboards/) to learn more.

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