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Debugging Erlang Applications In Real Time

Reid Draper @reiddraper

We'll be using a tool called redbug, which is an abstraction and safety layer of Erlang's built-in dbg tracing facilities. You can follow along at home:

git clone https://github.com/massemanet/eper
cd eper
make

Help

redbug:help().

Basic Example

In one terminal

erl -pa ebin -sname foo@

In another:

erl -pa ebin -sname bar@

In foo:

net_adm:ping('bar@reid-11'). %% replace your node name

Let's start with something fancy, tracing a function:

redbug:start("os:timestamp -> return", [{msgs, 10}, {time, 10 * 1000}, {target, 'bar@reid-11'}]).

In the other console:

os:timestamp().