Some application failures are difficult to reproduce away from the environment where they occur. Rookout offered live debugging that could collect information from running code to help developers investigate those problems. Its product direction now sits within Dynatrace, whose Live Debugger has specific runtime, agent and subscription requirements. Evaluate those current requirements rather than relying on older no-restart or negligible-overhead claims, and control who can capture variables because those values may contain sensitive application data.
Current guidance
Dynatrace announced its acquisition direction in 2023, and current Dynatrace documentation describes Live Debugger with explicit SaaS subscription, OneAgent and language-module prerequisites. That is a current vendor product to investigate, not evidence that the old standalone chart remains a supported installation path.
The current guide lists Java and Node.js code modules and requires restarting affected processes when enabling relevant features. Do not preserve the historical page’s broad Python support or no-restart wording as an unconditional statement about the new deployment. Confirm the exact runtime, feature entitlement and supported agent version with the vendor before rollout.
Live variable capture can expose sensitive application data. Define who may set breakpoints, which namespaces/processes are eligible, what is masked and how collected values are retained or exported. Start with synthetic data and measure application impact under the intended capture settings. Existing Rookout users should obtain an account and configuration migration path rather than assuming agent credentials and saved rules transfer automatically. No production overhead benchmark was performed here.
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Rookout real-time instrumentation means you don’t need to restart, redeploy or write code to see inside your app. It also means you can debug your staging or production environments just easily as debugging on your local machine.
Rookout lets you debug apps written in Python, Java, or Node.js, whether they are deployed on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or on your bare metal. All this is done while providing end-to-end security, coupled with a small footprint and a negligible performance impact.
About Rookout
As dev infrastructures become more complex and distributed, gaining visibility into your live code becomes a pressing problem, especially when issues get you paged in the middle of the night.
We simplify the process and drastically cut the time required to collect data, saving hours (sometimes days and weeks) of development and DevOps work.
The core innovation of our underlying technology is that it decouples the data visibility layer from the app, so while the live code is running, there’s full flexibility to review parts of it on-demand.
Just what you need when you need it.
What Does It offer?
Easy To Use
Using Rookout is as easy as inserting a breakpoint, only nothing breaks or stops.
Choose and define rules to collect any data you need by setting non-breaking “breakpoints” in your live code with just a few clicks.
Deliver the data anywhere – to your APM, alerting or logging tools, or just view it in our IDE-like interface.
Production-grade debugging
Get full-stack, specific variables, metrics and more from your live code, as it runs in dev, staging, and production.
Pipeline the extracted data anywhere, in real-time, even if you’d never thought about it beforehand or created any instrumentation to collect it.
Cut debugging time by 80%!
Rookout eliminates the burdensome debugging process of writing more code, testing, getting approval and redeploying. Instead, just point & click.
Speed up debugging iterations, and decrease frustration and context switching.
Any cloud, any environment
Our solution supports Python, JVM, and NodeJS on AWS, IBM Cloud Functions, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud or on your bare metal.
Enjoy end-to-end security, coupled with a small footprint and negligible performance impact.
Integrations
Full examples for getting Rookout’s output to your preferred platform is available on our GitHub. You will be able to find detailed procedures for all the following :
- Slack Integration: Send your messages directly to a monitoring channel when rules triggers
- Graylog Integration: Using Graylog? We can send everything directly there!
- Datadog Integration: Add a custom Rookout tile to your Datadog Dashboard in minutes
- Sumologic Integration: Send any data to Sumologic.
- Honeycomb.io Integration: Visualize your events with Honeycomb.io
- Loggly Integration: Send your data directly to Loggly.
- Elasticsearch Integration: Gather any data into your Elasticsearch.
- Sentry Integration: Monitor your exceptions with Sentry.
- Fluentd Integration: Send your data directly to Fluentd.
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