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Products

Brainz Lab provides a comprehensive suite of tools to monitor, debug, and manage your Rails applications.

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Observability

Recall

Structured LoggingCollect, search, and analyze logs with powerful query language. Track user sessions and correlate logs across requests.

Reflex

Error TrackingCapture and group exceptions automatically. Get notified of new errors with full context and breadcrumbs.

Pulse

APM & TracingMonitor application performance with distributed tracing. Track response times, throughput, and database queries.

Flux

Custom Metrics & EventsTrack custom events and metrics. Build dashboards and detect anomalies automatically.

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Alerting

Signal

Unified Alerting & NotificationsMonitor all data sources with configurable rules. Get notified via Slack, PagerDuty, email, and more. Manage incidents and on-call schedules.

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Developer Tools

Cortex

Feature FlagsControl feature rollouts with targeting rules. A/B test and gradually release new functionality.

Synapse

Deployments & TasksTrack deployments, run one-off tasks, and manage environments with GitHub integration.

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How They Work Together

All products integrate seamlessly: 
User Request
    │
    ├── Recall: Logs the request details
    ├── Pulse: Traces the request performance
    ├── Reflex: Captures any errors
    └── Flux: Tracks custom business events
            │
            ├── Signal: Monitors & alerts on issues ──→ Slack, PagerDuty
            ├── Cortex: Controls feature visibility
            └── Synapse: Deployed via CI/CD
  • Unified alerting: Signal monitors all products and sends notifications
  • Errors link to logs: Click through from an error to see related log entries
  • Logs link to traces: See the full request trace from any log line
  • Traces show queries: Identify slow database queries affecting performance
  • Events correlate: Custom events include trace IDs for correlation

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Getting Started

  1. Install the SDK - Add the brainzlab gem to your Rails app
  2. Configure - Set your secret key and enable products
  3. Deploy - Start collecting data automatically

Quick Start Guide

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