IronMQ Reviews

We run a pretty lean startup and need to offload as much development operations as possible. We looked at AWS of course and discovered IronMQ to be the right balance of functionality, ease-of-use, and cost. The Worker and MessageQueue products are particularly top-notch.

It was difficult to migrate off of our existing infrastructure but the team at Iron tried hard to ease the pain. There's probably no way around it. Not everything will transfer seamlessly but we were able to do it with minimal downtime.

Documentation is straight forward, its nice that they have sdks / plugins for major frameworks like laravel to work with the native queue system.

as frameworks evolve and their queuing feature become more robust, having those features brought though to the platform would be amazing. for example https://horizon.laravel.com/ has some cool retry features. some stats on processing time.

- Signed up on a free plan - Integrated easily with Heroku

- Randomly lost queues several times during THEIR outages - Very slow performance - Horrible support; sometimes WEEKS without response - Horrible documentation -- out of date, incomplete, etc. - Minimal feature set -- not even close to competitors - Terrible, buggy UI online

IronMQ was simple to implement in our system. We use it for a number of use cases and find it reliable, fast, and easy to use.

I can't think of any specific issue we've had with IronMQ. When we first started we organized things in an awkward way which lead to a large number of projects appearing on the dashboard when logging into Iron. That was mostly our own fault though.

The software is generally very reliable and powerful. The backend seems to be rock solid.

The user interface and API aren't exactly intuitive or easy to use.

Ease of use, scalability for handling intermittent high loads, integration with iron worker. Good price point

No out of box integration with spring cloud data flow

How easy it was to get up and running. At least the Go driver let's you put your config files in several places, following a hierarchy to override one value or another.

This will sound like a fake review but my experience was just very good with IronMQ, there wasn't anything I needed that wasn't there.

One of the best features of IronMQ are the push queues. We also love the Heroku add-on that gives us a greats solution for fast hosting. One of its best features, though, is the great support... very responsive and helpful!

The only con we can think of is the pricing structure. Scaling this service can get a little expensive, though, depending on your needs, can be worth it in the long term.

The dashboard was the most useful part of this product, the monitoring gave insight especially during development phases

Sometimes it was not clear when tasks/workers would kick off, sometimes even stuck

Performance, queue polling support, webhooks to use from external scripts

Not easy to understand all features, lack of webhook documentation

Very easy to set up projects, queues, subscribers. Good value for money.

The company seems to be quite focused on IronWorker and the product plans do not contemplate a low-volume case when you just need a cloud-hosted push queue server to distribute amongs subscribers. Documentation on local setup with Docker is limited.

Great product helps us manage our data from our internal database to our eCrm

The price went up dramatically from the last few years. We need the service but if someone referred a cheaper solution we would switch.

- highly available, fast and performant, haven't noticed any issues for more than 2 years of usage; - different types of queues are supported (push, pull) so you can choose what fits more for your needs; - simple to setup and use, needs almost zero maintenance after successful setup; - clear and straightforward dashboard UI and API documentation; - friendly support that ready to help with any questions;

- sometimes it could be useful to see more details in usage reporting, some kind of filters or grouping by queue's name;

Very easy to integrate, all features are available for quick trial, and support is good

The huge quality gap before development solution and enterprise solution, even the traffic is under the CAP. We did meet couple times of random low-frequency issue for cheaper version, and the only solution offered to us is to upgrade to Enterprise version.

I liked that it had the capability to hit an endpoint on my app for processing the job instead of figuring out cron tasks to process the queue.

Debugging was initially tricky but once I figured out the UI, it was very simple.

All worked nicely and customer support was indeed supported.

It used to be affordable for us for quite some time. We relied on this, but since they introduced a price hike, we have been unable to keep subscribing to Iron.

Feature about message, task funtion that works to manage load effectively

More detail Documentation for developement purpose required

IronMQ is a robust messaging queue system. The REST API is easy to understand and adapt. Easy to scale

Again, admin console is the weakest link here. In several scenarios I have to navigate lots of steps to get what I want.

It helps our operations team track progress of weekly asset generation process and identifies bottlenecks.

Nothing comes to mind. The operations team doesn't use much more than the dashboard.

The features about messages, tasks, caches etc

more detailed documentation is not available for developers

I loved how easily I was able to set up my queues and how my messages are delivered extremelt fast!

There were some non-trivial tasks I had trouble learning how to do, the documentation is good but could still include additional details.

I did not get this far. Lots of promises in material.

My application target needs embedable cluster messaging solution. GDPR rules prevent use of external services. Enterprise site local system might just barely be acceptable.

Simple API with python Big customer including CNN Long polling that is easy to integrate with websocket

Not clear how low the latency can it go (microsecond?)

It is very user friendly and easy; very no hassle type service.

I don't really have anything negative to say here.

Ease of use, quick deployment and great customer service.

None that I can think of. The application works great.