September 2025 updates – Worker Autoscaling, Addon Metrics Revamp, and Enhanced Monitoring
October 5, 2025
Hello from the NeetoDeploy team!
September has been a month of major progress on performance, observability, and automation. We’ve made NeetoDeploy smarter at scaling workloads, improved how you track and respond to resource usage, and deepened visibility into every layer of your applications.
Here’s what’s new this month.
Platform & Infrastructure
Worker Autoscaling
We’ve introduced autoscaling for background jobs — starting with Sidekiq-based apps. This works just like web dyno autoscaling, but dynamically scales worker counts based on queue time. This helps reduce idle resource consumption and ensures responsive background job processing during peak load.
Dashboard App Migration
The NeetoDeploy dashboard itself has officially moved from Heroku to NeetoDeploy. Running NeetoDeploy on NeetoDeploy is a big milestone in our long-term vision of complete self-hosting. With this, we officially closed our Heroku account, and we are completely on NeetoDeploy, with NeetoDeploy hosting itself!
Monitoring & Metrics
Addon Metrics Revamp
We’ve revamped addon metrics for better visibility and performance insights. You can now monitor critical resource patterns across Postgres, Redis, and Elasticsearch in real time, helping you identify issues faster.
DataDog Tracing Integration
We’ve integrated DataDog tracing with our Kubernetes cluster. This enables detailed monitoring of the infrastructure, internal app behaviour, API latency, and database performance — all visible within your DataDog dashboards.
Log-based Alerts
A new alerting system now watches your logs for patterns that indicate issues, and notifies you automatically — helping you stay ahead of incidents before they escalate.
High-Consumption Event Tracking
We now track and display high-consumption events (CPU, memory, storage) directly in the metrics graph for both dynos and addons, providing better historical context for performance investigations.
Notifications & Alerts
High-Consumption Email Alerts
NeetoDeploy now automatically sends email alerts when your dynos or addons cross 80% of allocated CPU, memory, or storage. This gives you a proactive heads-up before performance issues affect your app.
Autoscaling Summary Emails
All autoscaling (HPA) events are now logged and summarized monthly. Admins receive an automated report on the 1st of every month with scaling history and insights.
Developer Experience
Bulk Import Environment Variables
Managing environment variables just got easier. You can now bulk import variables from a CSV file, saving time when setting up complex app configurations.
Addon Dump Storage Migration
We’ve moved addon dumps to a dedicated S3 bucket in a separate AWS account to improve reliability and isolation of backup storage.
Database & Addon Enhancements
Postgres Addon Improvements
We’ve fine-tuned Postgres addons for better performance and stability, and laid the groundwork for making database configuration parameters (like work memory, shared buffers, and storage size) user-configurable in future releases.
That’s all for this month’s update!
As always, thank you for using NeetoDeploy. Your feedback continues to guide our roadmap as we make app deployment faster, smarter, and more transparent.