Transaction events array growth not limited - out of memory error about appsignal-ruby HOT 2 CLOSED

Hi Bastian,

Thanks for the issue reports! This is unfortunately one of the few downsides of processing all instrumentation that Rails provides.

We're working on a new version of the gem that handles this case a lot better. It's in beta right now, but could take a while before we release it.

Meanwhile to prevent memory issues in long-running jobs we've implemented a way to "pause" the ingestion of instrumentation like so:

class WorkWorker
  def perform
    Appsignal.without_instrumentation do
      # lots of heavy lifting here
    end
  end
end

This will still catch any errors that might occur, but it won't collect all the performance data.

Let me know if this works for you right now.

Best,
Robert

from appsignal-ruby.

okay, much cleaner work around than clearing all events when the array gets too large.
we're looking forward to the new release. Yet this year possibly?
Cheers
Bastian

from appsignal-ruby.