Inside Skylight

Skylight is a smart profiler for Ruby and Rails applications. In this post, we use Skylight to improve performance for the Skylight app. So meta!… »

Today, we released version 2.0 of the Skylight Agent. 2.0 doesn't introduce any new APIs, but we did rewrite the SQL Lexer to support more varieties of queries. We also spent a lot of time on internal refactoring and improved our error logging. Since we follow semantic versioning,… »

We’ve just released the Skylight Agent 2.0 Beta and we’re excited to have you give it a try! The most significant changes are a completely rewritten SQL Lexer and removal of support for unsupported versions of Ruby, Rails, and other libraries. Read on to learn more or… »

We're pleased to announce the release of version 1.4 of the Skylight agent today. This release has a number of improvements and some exciting new features! Read on to learn more, or skip to the good stuff and update your Gemfile. Rack Middleware Instrumentation The most significant new feature… »

The Skylight gem is a central part of the Skylight product and it's been stuck in at pre-1.0 for far too long. Today, we've released version 1.0.0, officially signifying that it's stable and mature! Along with being a mark of maturity, the 1.0 release also brings… »