Overview
This 21-minute tutorial demonstrates how to enhance developer productivity with Dynatrace Live Debugger, a tool that enables troubleshooting live bugs in production environments without traditional logging methods. Watch Josh Hendricks, Technology Strategist at Dynatrace, showcase how to connect your IDE (Visual Studio Code or IntelliJ) to a Dynatrace-observed environment, set non-breaking breakpoints without affecting runtime behavior, analyze stack traces and variables for every code execution, and efficiently resolve production issues. Follow along with a comprehensive live demo that breaks down complex troubleshooting into simple steps, from initial setup to fixing actual bugs in both IntelliJ and VSCode environments. The tutorial covers the complete workflow including Live Debugger setup, data collection methods, IDE plugin installation, setting non-breaking breakpoints, and practical bug resolution techniques that bring local debugging convenience to production environments.
Syllabus
00:00 - Introduction
01:22 - Live Debugger Demo Setup
03:38 - Live Debugger Data Collection
04:20 - IDE Plugins VSCode, IntelliJ
04:40 - Live Demo
05:35 - Live Debugger App
08:28 - Setting Non-Breaking Breakpoints
11:53 - Fixing the Bug
13:02 - Live Debugging in VSCode
19:16 - Wrap Up
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Dynatrace