koudelka / visualixir

A process/message visualizer for BEAM nodes.💪👁
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Use recon? #21

Open beardedeagle opened 6 years ago

beardedeagle commented 6 years ago

We were musing over what could be done to make this more "Prod" safe in the elixir slack channel and the suggestion came up that it might be good to switch to recon to get tracing data. Do you have any plans or have you considered using recon?

koudelka commented 6 years ago

Is there a particular bit of code you'd replace with recon to make things safer?

I've previously been concerned about situations where monitoring a process' messages causes a cascading increase in messages sent (tracing the processes involved in visualixir itself). Outside of that, I just don't recommend using this in production as I'd imagine there are other situations that could cause grief.