Add log statements to your application on the fly with Stackdriver Debugger Logpoints
Add log statements to your application on the fly with Stackdriver Debugger Logpoints By Morgan McLean, Product Manager, Stackdriver Trace and Debugger In 2014 we launched Snapshots for Stackdriver Debugger, which gave developers the ability to examine their application�s call stack and variables in production with no impact to users. In the past year, developers have taken over three hundred thousand production snapshots across their services running on Google App Engine and on VMs and containers hosted anywhere. Today we�re showing off Stackdriver Debugger Logpoints. With Logpoints, you can instantly add log statements to your production application without rebuilding or redeploying it. Like Snapshots, this is immensely useful when diagnosing tricky production issues that lack an obvious root cause. Even better, Logpoints fits into existing logs-based workflows. (click to enlarge) Adding a logpoint is as simple as clicking a line in the Debugger source viewer and typing in ...
