When your queue looks “quiet,” it might actually be failing silently

TL;DR

• Bull Board is a solid starting point with basic job visibility.
• Upqueue.io is built for production observability: alerts, metrics, child-job support, and UI polish make a difference.

If you're running BullMQ in production, you’ve likely got jobs, workers, and retries configured. But all the functionality in the world won’t help if you can’t see what’s actually happening.

That’s where a true BullMQ UI becomes essential.

A Good BullMQ UI Should Offer

• ✅ Live status (active, delayed, completed, failed)
• ✅ Job retry/delete controls
• ✅ Job context with JSON/logs
• ✅ Historical trends for queues
• ✅ Alerts for failures, stalled queues, memory/connection issues
• ✅ Visibility into child (nested) jobs

Let’s compare Bull Board — the go‑to starter UI — with Upqueue.io, which is built for observability-first production use.

Feature Comparison: Bull Board vs Upqueue.io

Quick Setup Example

// queue.ts
import { Queue, Worker } from 'bullmq';

export const reportQueue = new Queue('report', {
  connection: { host: 'localhost', port: 6379 },
});

new Worker('report', async job => {
  return await generatePDF(job.data);
});

All good—but to run safely, you need a UI that shows when something breaks.

Upqueue.io connects to your Redis and instantly provides:

• ✅ Failed Jobs monitor
• ✅ Connection & Memory alerts
• ✅ Missing Workers tracking
• ✅ Backlog alerts
• ✅ Child‑job tab and retry controls
• ✅ Clean, developer-friendly interface

Oh, and bonus—a real team behind it, with fast support and new features dropping regularly.

Learn more and explore the dashboard: upqueue.io