#13 in Orchestration & SchedulingUpdated 2026-08

Workbench

by Workbench · Dashboard for inspecting, debugging and replaying BullMQ queues

52.9 — BenchRank score out of 100

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Overview

Workbench is a dashboard for BullMQ queues that discovers queues from a Redis URL and shows live completed/failed/active/waiting counters, p50/p95 latency, a virtualised run inspector with full payloads, FlowProducer graphs, cron and delayed schedulers, and failures grouped by error class. Jobs can be retried or enqueued from the UI. It runs as a macOS app, embedded in a Node server, or as a Docker container.

Best for: Node teams running BullMQ who need to inspect, debug and replay queue jobs without using redis-cli
Pricing: No prices are shown; the pages present an MIT-licensed, open-source project with a Sponsor link and no paid plans.
Runs on: macOSSelf-hostedCLI

Strengths and trade-offs

Strengths

Runs as a Mac app, inside a Node server, or as a Docker container
Runs, flows, schedulers and error triage in one dashboard
Stack trace lines open directly in Cursor or VS Code
MIT-licensed, with the same open-source core in all three modes

Trade-offs

Desktop app is macOS 11+ only; no Windows or Linux build is shown
Tied to BullMQ on Redis; no other queue system is mentioned
No authentication or access control is described for embed or Docker modes
Pages show no pricing, support terms or hosted option

How this score is made up

Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.

MCP support: 60 out of 100
API quality: 30 out of 100
Documentation: 60 out of 100
Agent friendliness: 65 out of 100
Changelog: 80 out of 100
Marketing site structure: 65 out of 100
Operational trust: 0 out of 100

Measured, but not part of the score

Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.

Openness: 100 out of 100
Maintenance: 70 out of 100

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