A dashboard for Active Job queues, mounted into your app
No ratings yet# Gemfile
gem "mission_control-jobs"
# config/routes.rb
mount MissionControl::Jobs::Engine, at: "/jobs"Mission Control — Jobs vs PgHero
Mission Control — Jobs 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 Mission Control — Jobs does
The official Rails dashboard for Active Job. If you moved to Solid Queue, this is the screen you were missing. Jobs in flight, queued, blocked, failed and scheduled Retry and discard, individually or in bulk Queue pausing Multiple applications and servers in one UI
Read the full Mission Control — Jobs listing →
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.
Read the full PgHero listing →
Why you might pick it
- It also replaces Datadog and Grafana Cloud.
- It has substantially more adoption — 8,100 stars against 1,100.
Side by side
Rows where the two differ are marked.
| Mission Control — Jobs | PgHero | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Operations | Operations |
| Replaces (differs) | Hosted job monitoring | Datadog, Grafana Cloud |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| GitHub stars (differs) | 1100 | 8100 |
| Gem (differs) | mission_control-jobs | pghero |
| Mounts at (differs) | /jobs | /pghero |
| Member rating | — | — |
What each one gets off your invoice
Both replace
Nothing unique here.
Only Mission Control — Jobs
Only PgHero
Questions
- What is the difference between Mission Control — Jobs and PgHero?
- Mission Control — Jobs and PgHero both sit in operations, but they solve different parts of it.
- Can I mount both Mission Control — Jobs 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.