What is ActiveSupport::Notifications in Rails?

Updated May 24, 2026

Short answer

It is a pub-sub instrumentation API for monitoring Rails internals.

Deep explanation

It allows subscribing to lifecycle events like SQL queries or controller actions for performance monitoring.

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