Inspect a Running Application

Real-Time Phoenix — by Stephen Bussey (90 / 106)

👈 Manage Your Application’s Memory Effectively | TOC | Wrapping Up 👉

Consider the following scenario: you see a performance problem with your production application, but you can’t quite figure out what is causing it. Your server may be having periods of slow requests, high memory usage, or failed requests. You collect metrics using StatsD or another tool, but it just doesn’t seem to pinpoint the exact problem. Luckily, you can run commands against a live server to find…