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Visualize Data Your Way, with Intelligence Dashboards Built for Your Stack
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Visualize Data Your Way, with Intelligence Dashboards Built for Your Stack

When you're troubleshooting in production, the right charts should already be in front of you. AppSignal dashboards now give you more control over layout, while Intelligence dashboards, Apdex, AppSignal MCP, and the CLI help you connect revisions, errors, throughput, and more.

By Karen Patteri de Souza, Serena Chou on

Add an App With Your Coding Agent
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Add an App With Your Coding Agent

Give your coding agent one prompt to install AppSignal, then follow its progress as your app starts reporting.

By Serena Chou on

Distributed Tracing Is Now in Beta for Ruby, PHP, and Python
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Distributed Tracing Is Now in Beta for Ruby, PHP, and Python

One trace across every service a request touches, including the Sidekiq job your Rails request just enqueued. In beta for Ruby, Python, and PHP, and here’s how to turn it on.

By Serena Chou on

AppSignal Intelligence Just Got More Rails Context
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AppSignal Intelligence Just Got More Rails Context

We’re taking our partnership with Chris Oliver one step further: 10 Ruby and Rails tutorials, made with GoRails, now in the context store AppSignal Intelligence reads.

By Serena Chou on

AppSignal at ElixirConf 2026
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AppSignal at ElixirConf 2026

ElixirConf 2026 starts today in Chicago. Here’s what we’ve been building to make monitoring your Elixir app — and handing it to your coding agent — as easy as it should be.

By Serena Chou on

AppSignal vs the tools it replaces (PagerDuty, Cronitor, Rollbar etc.)
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AppSignal vs the tools it replaces (PagerDuty, Cronitor, Rollbar etc.)

A feature-by-feature comparison of AppSignal against the single-purpose monitoring tools it can replace, from Rollbar and PagerDuty to Cronitor and UptimeRobot.

By Dejan Lukić on

MCP Won't Replace Your Monitoring Tool
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MCP Won't Replace Your Monitoring Tool

MCP is a powerful interface for your monitoring data but it's not a replacement for your monitoring tool. Here's why.

By Dejan Lukić on

Why You Shouldn't Vibe Code Your Monitoring Tool
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Why You Shouldn't Vibe Code Your Monitoring Tool

Looking to build your own monitoring tool? While it may seem like a good idea at first, there are several reasons why you shouldn't vibe code your monitoring tool.

By Dejan Lukić on

How to Investigate a Production Incident Using an AI Agent (AppSignal MCP)
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How to Investigate a Production Incident Using an AI Agent (AppSignal MCP)

A step-by-step guide to investigating a production incident using an AI agent with AppSignal's MCP server.

By Dejan Lukić on

Your Render Migration Checklist: How to Verify Everything Is Working
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Your Render Migration Checklist: How to Verify Everything Is Working

Migrating to Render? This checklist will help you verify everything is working. From database and file storage to monitoring and alerting, we’ve got you covered.

By Tarun Singh on

Triage Production Incidents with a Single Prompt Using the AppSignal CLI
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Triage Production Incidents with a Single Prompt Using the AppSignal CLI

One AppSignal customer wired our official CLI into an agent skill, so he can search production logs, triage incidents, and check deploys in plain English. Here's how he set it up, and what it lets him do.

By Karen Patteri de Souza on

AppSignal MCP Server: Get Started in your IDE
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AppSignal MCP Server: Get Started in your IDE

Learn how to connect AppSignal's MCP server to Cursor, Claude Code, VS Code, and Zed in under five minutes and give your AI agent direct access to your production monitoring data.

By Dejan Lukić on

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