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by phanimahesh 1057 days ago
On erlang vm (beamvm), you can safely trace in production. It makes tracing and debugging tools in other ecosystems look like they are primitive in comparison.

I think erlang ecosystem has its own warts like any other one but debugging definitely isn't one

Here are a few examples of what you can do in erlang/elixir:

Inspect function calls that match specific argumrnt patterns, which can get pretty detailed. Tag processes by id, future processes under a supervisor, or other criteria, and limit tracing to these. Limit tracing to n occurences. As in automatically disable tracing after it triggered n times.

Typically one combines these and more to identify issues pretty rapidly.