Motivation

In software development one often finds themselves investigating issues. Depending on the type of the application, various sources of informations can be available:

• screenshots
• verbal description of the problem
• metrics
• logs (application, framework, container, application server, OS, …)
• thread and heap dumps

In an ideal world, the exact inputs that caused an issue and the code that failed would be immediately available. In a typical case though, it can take hours of digging through logs and code to understand what happened. Would it not be nice to avoid that?

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