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Mar 24 2021

Quick and Dirty Tracking of Sidekiq Queue Latency in New Relic

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Quick and Dirty Tracking of Sidekiq Queue Latency in New Relic
In any queueing system, the most important metric is usually how long the average unit of work spends waiting in the queue to be serviced. Time spent in the queue is wasted time; just waiting for processing. Nobody likes waiting in line.
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