Cloud logging services have long been plagued by limitations and high costs, hindering companies’ ability to achieve true flexibility in their operations. One of the primary obstacles is the lack of flexibility in traditional cloud logging services, which often require companies to make upfront decisions about log levels and storage capacity, locking them into fixed plans for extended periods.

Debugging APIs can be a challenge for any developer dealing with REST APIs. Trying to create an exact API request, especially for highly complex requests with large bodies and multiple headers, is essential but also tough to do. By using a tool like Postman to create a request for debugging and API testing purposes, you can easily replay an API request with the exact configuration of the original request.

As digital transformation and the consequent move towards cloud-native continues to accelerate, and customer demands increase, traditional approaches to debugging and troubleshooting are limited and insufficient. Developers must quickly understand the relationships between user sessions, topology, and end-to-end transactions during incidents.

Logs are the core of the human-machine interface for software developers and operators. Historically, they are very much like caveman paintings. They were our first attempt to express and understand how our software was working. For several decades, logs were an island of calm in a rapidly changing technological ecosystem. Logs remained the same even as software services became web-based and grew in scale.

Real Device Cloud error and crash reporting can help you find the root cause of errors faster and inspire greater confidence in your mobile app’s performance.

If you were to wake me up at 3 am and ask me how Rookout differs from logs (or other pillars of Observability, for that matter), my answer would have focused on the agile nature of live debugging. I would have explained that Non-Breaking Breakpoints empower you to decide in real-time what data you need. Traditionally, you would use whatever logs (or metrics and spans) happen to be in the code and work backward from there.