A Postgres-backed Active Job backend that ships its own dashboard
No ratings yet# Gemfile
gem "good_job"
# config/routes.rb
mount GoodJob::Engine, at: "/good_job"GoodJob vs PgHero
GoodJob and PgHero both sit in operations, but they solve different parts of it.
Thin comparison — they do not replace the same product. Kept readable, left out of search.
PgHero
Better knownA performance dashboard for Postgres, mounted at a path
No ratings yet# Gemfile
gem "pghero"What GoodJob does
GoodJob is a job backend and a dashboard in one gem, using the database you already run. Multithreaded Active Job execution backed by Postgres Cron-style recurring jobs Concurrency controls and job throttling A mounted dashboard: queued, running, finished, discarded, with retry and discard Runs inside your web process if you want zero extra infrastructure The reason this belongs in the directory: adopting it removes a Redis instance and a job-monitoring subscription at the same time.
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Why you might pick it
- It also replaces Hosted job monitoring.
What PgHero does
PgHero shows you what your database is doing: slow queries, missing indexes, unused indexes, table bloat, connections and query statistics. A slow query list backed by pg stat statements Index suggestions, and unused indexes you can drop Space usage per table Live queries, with a kill button Historical query stats if you enable capture PgHero is Postgres-only. On SQLite or MySQL this is not the tool for you.
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Why you might pick it
- It also replaces Datadog and Grafana Cloud.
- It has substantially more adoption — 8,100 stars against 3,000.
Side by side
Rows where the two differ are marked.
| GoodJob | PgHero | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Operations | Operations |
| Replaces (differs) | Hosted job monitoring | Datadog, Grafana Cloud |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| GitHub stars (differs) | 3000 | 8100 |
| Gem (differs) | good_job | pghero |
| Mounts at (differs) | /good_job | /pghero |
| Member rating | — | — |
What each one gets off your invoice
Both replace
Nothing unique here.
Only GoodJob
Only PgHero
Questions
- What is the difference between GoodJob and PgHero?
- GoodJob and PgHero both sit in operations, but they solve different parts of it.
- Can I mount both GoodJob and PgHero in the same Rails app?
- Technically yes — engines mount at different paths — but they overlap, so running both usually means two sets of tables doing one job. Pick one.