AppSignal, an application monitoring company, argues that the Model Context Protocol (MCP) will not replace monitoring tools because MCP is an interface layer, not a data layer. MCP standardizes how A…
AppSignal, a vendor of application performance monitoring tools, warns that vibe coding a monitoring pipeline is risky because the hard parts—scale, reliability, error grouping, and compliance—surface…
AppSignal's MCP server gives AI agents direct access to production monitoring data, enabling incident investigations in plain English. In a real scenario, an agent triaged a payments service alert, id…
Rails World 2026, taking place in Austin in 47 days, announced that Yukihiro 'Matz' Matsumoto will join DHH for a fireside chat on day 2, sponsored by Shopify. The full agenda is now live, lightning t…
AppSignal, an application performance monitoring suite for small to mid-sized apps, released a checklist to help Python developers productionize AI-generated code from tools like Claude Code and Curso…
AppSignal released a CLI tool that lets developers and AI agents triage production incidents with a single prompt, enabling searches of production logs, incident closures, and pull request checks from…
AppSignal has launched a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that lets AI coding agents in Cursor, Claude Code, VS Code with GitHub Copilot, and Zed directly access production monitoring data, enablin…
AppSignal shipped five features during Launch Week 2026, including Render Metrics Stream support, Hosted MCP and CLI, enhanced logging, process monitoring, and dark mode. All features are live on ever…
AppSignal launched an MCP server that lets developers query monitoring data using plain language inside editors like VS Code and Cursor. The server exposes tools for errors, incidents, anomalies, metr…
AppSignal researchers compared the token costs of using AI coding assistants with Rails, Django, and Laravel by building the same web app with identical prompts. Rails consumed 61,141 tokens and requi…
This article by Johanna Larsson on the AppSignal blog explains how to build a distributed rate limiter in Elixir using the HashRing library. It covers the implementation of consistent hashing to evenl…