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Production debugging ranks as one of the biggest nightmares for developers, it is quite exhausting and time-wasting. In some cases, the bugs are minimal and easy to fix. However, serious complications in software may result in huge economic losses for creators. Knight Capital Group lost around $440 Million and almost filed for bankruptcy due to production bugs in 2012. Imagine spending several hours successfully, developing and testing your software application only to discover a bug at the production phase. The thought of it alone is depressing. Non-breaking points, otherwise known as virtual breaking points provides an efficient solution to production bug issues. It also saves time and resources, unlike the traditional method. In the Tech world, where every second count, it's a no-brainer for any developer to invest in non-breaking points. Comparing the best providers of virtual breaking points. Lightrun offers clients remarkable remote debugging services; 100% instantaneous code-level observability directly from the IDE in which the Use time tracker Be more specific in the differences between the companies Overview of all the technologies Rewrite Rookout Build a table that compares them: Technologies supported IDEs supported Languages supported Features Document how they work by watching the videos Name | Overview | Features | How it works | Language(s) supported| Tools supported | Other Information Rookout: Rookout is a versatile non-breaking point debugging platform that enables developers to debug and understand their software application better. It reduces debugging and logging time by 80%, helping the developer understand, debug, and collect live data from any application in real-time without changing the code or having to redeploy. It is extremely useful when debugging a third-party code; developers can obtain the value of local variables, stack traces, and metadata using the Rookout SDK even when they don't have access to the source code. Features of Rookout: OpenTracing integration Enterprise-grade security Version control integration Negligible performance overhead with strict controls Profiling capabilities Conditional breakpoints for pinpoint collection Debug multiple applications simultaneously Fast and reliable delivery process Data pipelining Live debugging Seamless GIT integration How it works: Developers/users install Rookout as an SDK and deploy it in every running instance of the application. The SDK then executes bytecode manipulation, gaining straightforward passage to running code frames as the application runs. You are to set one or more filters that support a specific server or micro server instances that you will like to debug. The next step is to click "Let's go" on the top right-hand side of the page; it ushers you into the user-friendly debugging field. Connect your source code repository then click on a line to add a virtual breakpoint. This enables the Rookout SDK to retrieve the value of stack traces, local variables and metadata about the running application. IDEs supported: Google cloud Azure AWS Language(s) supported: Java and all JVM based language, Python, Ruby, Nodes.js Services/Tools Supported: .Net Slack Datadog Sentry Kubernetes Other Information: Rookout has a try-free section for the coding community but users will need to pay to gain access to its premium package. You can also sign-up for a 14 days free trial offer on the platform. Lightrun Lightrun offers clients remarkable remote debugging services; 100% instantaneous code-level observability directly from the IDE or CLI in which the program is running. Users can deploy different lightrun actions (log, metrics, or snapshots) to investigate and fix the bugs through the JVTMI agent that runs simultaneously with the application on the application servers. Features of Lightrun: Reduced MTTR Zero downtime Increased productivity Multi-instance Support 100% code-level observability in real-time Top-level security and privacy Minimal footprint Supports conditional logs Pipe data anywhere (Slack, local file, APM, etc) Continuous debugging agility (you can add as many logs, snapshots and performance metrics as you need). Works anywhere and everywhere (in cloud, on-prem, K8, for microservices, and serverless. Pipeline data to your favourite data analysis tool Supports multiple integrations Supports the full Java Expression syntax Encrypted communication between components and management server How it works: Developers login with their username and password to access the lightrun plugin for remote debugging. If successful, the login button on the right turns green. Software agents that have been connected appear on the right-hand side and can be tagged or grouped; this makes it easier to perform actions (logs, metrics, or snapshots) on multiple agents. Right-click on the mouse to access the lightrun menu, then select the appropriate action to debug your software applications. Logs: to switch log view, simply expand the agent and check the log in the tool window. The developer can decide to pipe the log into the plugin or choose to print it in both the application and IDE. The logs appear in the lightrun console while pipping is going on. It is possible to search for logs by typing into anywhere within the console or filter them by typing keywords into the text field at the top of the page. Snapshots: Lightrun's snapshots don't stop the application from running because they work as virtual breakpoints. You can set watch expressions that pick the stack and variables when the snapshot is hit; it allows a developer to traverse through the stack in the same way they traverse through normal breakpoints. Metric: it allows creators to assess performance, synchronization, or business logic metric in real-time. Helping them to identify and fix the error(s) without disrupting the performance of the system. IDEs supported: IntelliJ Google cloud AWS Language(s) supported: Python (coming soon) Nodes.js (coming soon) Services/Tools Supported: Prometheus Slack Datadog StatsD Sentry Splunk Elastic New Relic Dynatrace AppDynamics Logz.io