How Does DebugMate Work?

DebugMate operates seamlessly within your application’s code to detect, report, and analyze errors, providing you with real-time insights to resolve issues efficiently. Here’s a step-by-step breakdown of how DebugMate works from error detection to resolution:

1. Error Detection: When an error occurs within your application (such as a runtime exception, unhandled error, or network failure), DebugMate’s lightweight client automatically identifies the issue. By integrating directly with your application, DebugMate can capture a wide range of errors across various environments without slowing down performance.

2. Error Reporting: Once an error is detected, DebugMate logs it along with critical metadata that gives developers a clear understanding of the context and impact of the error. This data includes:

   • Error type and message: Details of the specific error that occurred.
   • Stack trace: A detailed log of where the error happened in the code, allowing developers to pinpoint the problem.
   • Affected environment: Information on the user’s environment, such as browser, operating system, and device type.
   • User session information: Data on the user's session to help replicate the issue.
   • Custom contextual data: Additional information you choose to add, such as variables or application states at the time of the error.

3. Transmission: After gathering the relevant data, DebugMate transmits it securely to your self-hosted DebugMate server. This secure transmission ensures that sensitive error data remains within your infrastructure, aligning with data privacy requirements and compliance standards. The data is then processed and stored on the server, where it’s ready for analysis.

4. Analysis and Alerts: DebugMate’s system categorizes and prioritizes errors based on severity, impact, and recurrence. Developers receive real-time alerts for critical errors, empowering them to respond quickly to high-priority issues. Using the DebugMate dashboard, developers can view and analyze error logs, review stack traces, and assess environmental factors to trace the root cause of each issue efficiently.

5. Error Resolution: With comprehensive error insights at their fingertips, developers can address the root causes directly within the code. DebugMate’s structured reports facilitate the debugging process, enabling teams to apply patches quickly and prevent similar issues in the future.

Capturing Errors

DebugMate's clients are built to detect various error types depending on the platform you're using, ensuring comprehensive coverage across diverse application environments. Each client has detection methods specific to its platform, from unhandled exceptions in server environments to promise rejections in JavaScript frameworks.

Error Types We Track

DebugMate captures and logs multiple types of errors to ensure thorough monitoring of your application’s health. The primary error types include:

• Runtime exceptions: These are errors that arise during the execution of your application, such as variable errors, undefined functions, and more.
• Unhandled promise rejections: In modern JavaScript frameworks, DebugMate captures unhandled promise rejections, which can often be difficult to track.
• HTTP Errors: DebugMate detects server-side errors, such as HTTP 500 errors, that could impact application performance and user experience.
• Custom application errors: Developers can also log custom errors to track unique situations that may not trigger automatic error detection, offering a way to gain insights into specific parts of the application.

Through each of these steps, DebugMate ensures that your team has the tools needed to monitor, analyze, and address issues efficiently, improving your application's reliability and user satisfaction.

DebugMate's design provides development teams with a complete error tracking and resolution solution, all within the control and privacy of your own infrastructure.