Using Other Advanced Tools

We have learned how trace can be used to debug live systems with minimum impact. There are many other libraries in Erlang/OTP and in the community we can use to understand production systems. We’ll look at three Erlang tools:

• The :runtime_tools library
• The :crash_dump viewer
• The :recon project

Debugging with runtime tools

We’ve already seen one of the :runtime_tools. The :dbg module enables tracing. We only scratched the surface. ...