Redis and Sidekiq are popular libraries used by Ruby applications to handle features like caching, queues, and background processing. Capabilities like these are important for growing web applications, and as such require monitoring to ensure they are running smoothly.
There are several solutions in the market that you can use to monitor your Redis instance and check for potential problems. But did you know that Redis and Sidekiq already provide useful APIs you can use to roll out your own monitoring solution?