3 years ago

As a way to extend the reach of observability and monitoring platforms in order to help developers debug their code, cloud monitoring provider Thundra has expanded Sidekick, its IntelliJ IDEA debugging Plugin, so it can now also scrutinize Kotlin and Scala applications in addition to its mainstay of supporting Java applications. Thundra Sidekick will also soon be available to debug Python language programs, “in a few weeks,” company representatives say.

The key capability Thundra Sidekick offers is code-level observability that is easy to set up — the company claims, for example, users can be up and running in five minutes for multicloud environments.

Providing code-level observability for simple debugging in highly complex environments is what makes us unique.”

Observability platforms offer tracing, of course, but for debugging it is limited to inter-service and not code-level observability.