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ActiveRabbit is the intelligent monitoring platform built for modern Ruby on Rails developers. We combine comprehensive error tracking, performance monitoring, and AI-powered insights to help you ship with confidence. Stop debugging in the dark—let AI explain your errors and suggest fixes.

At a high level, ActiveRabbit provides:

🔴 Error Monitoring — Automatic exception capture with AI explanations
⚡ Performance Monitoring — Track slow requests, N+1 queries, and bottlenecks
🤖 AI-Powered Insights — Get instant explanations and fix suggestions
📊 Real-time Dashboard — Beautiful, actionable analytics

Why ActiveRabbit?

Modern applications generate thousands of errors and performance issues every day. Traditional monitoring tools simply alert you when something goes wrong, leaving you to dig through logs and stack traces to find the root cause.

This is what sets ActiveRabbit apart. Our AI analyzes every error and provides:

Plain-English Explanations — Understand what went wrong without diving deep into code
Root Cause Analysis — AI identifies the likely cause of the error
Fix Suggestions — Get actionable recommendations to resolve issues
Pattern Recognition — AI spots recurring issues and anti-patterns
Context-Aware — AI considers your stack trace, request data, and environment

💡 Example

Instead of just seeing NoMethodError: undefined method 'name' for nil:NilClass, ActiveRabbit AI tells you: "This error occurs because `user` is nil when trying to access `name`. This typically happens when a database query returns no results. Consider adding a nil check or using `&.name` (safe navigation operator)."

Key Features

Dashboard: See Everything at a Glance

Get a bird's-eye view of your application's health with our real-time dashboard:

Real-time Error Counts — See errors as they happen
Performance Overview — P50, P95, P99 response times at a glance
Trend Analysis — Spot regressions before they become incidents
Multi-Project Support — Monitor all your apps from one place

Error Monitoring: Catch Every Bug

Comprehensive error tracking with detailed context, stack traces, and automatic grouping:

Automatic Exception Capture — Rails, Sidekiq, and custom errors
Smart Error Grouping — Reduce noise by grouping similar errors
Rich Context — Request data, user info, environment details
Stack Trace Navigation — Jump directly to the problematic code
Customizable Alerts — Slack, email, webhooks—get notified your way

Performance Monitoring: Optimize with Confidence

Track application performance across your entire stack:

Request Tracing — See exactly where time is spent
N+1 Query Detection — Automatically catch database anti-patterns
Slow Query Alerts — Get notified when queries exceed thresholds
Percentile Metrics — P50, P95, P99 tracking for accurate insights
Trend Analysis — Compare performance across deploys

SDKs

Platform	Package	Status
Ruby on Rails	activerabbit-ai	✅ Stable
Next.js	@activerabbit/nextjs	✅ Stable
Node.js	@activerabbit/node	🚧 Coming Soon
Python/Django	activerabbit-python	🚧 Coming Soon

Getting Started

Ready to get started? Follow our Quick Start Guide to install ActiveRabbit in your Rails application in under 5 minutes.

# Gemfile
gem 'activerabbit-ai'

# config/initializers/activerabbit.rb
ActiveRabbit::Client.configure do |config|
  config.api_key = ENV['ACTIVERABBIT_API_KEY']
  config.project_id = ENV['ACTIVERABBIT_PROJECT_ID']
  config.environment = Rails.env
end

Open Source

ActiveRabbit is open source and available on GitHub. You can self-host it on your own infrastructure or use our managed cloud service.

Our Mission

Our mission is to help Ruby developers ship faster and debug less. We believe:

Monitoring should be effortless — Integration should take minutes, not days
Errors should be understandable — AI can bridge the gap between stack traces and solutions
Performance matters — Slow apps lose users; we help you stay fast
Rails deserves great tooling — The Ruby ecosystem deserves modern monitoring