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Sidekick is an open-source Live Application Debugger that helps you to debug issues where they happen, when they happen, without stopping, rebuilding, or redeploying applications. Sidekick agents give you powerful dynamic observability features with near-zero overhead.

Github - runsidekick/sidekick

Free and open-source live application debugger. Like chrome dev tools but for your backend

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Why Sidekick?

Sidekick is a plus one to your observability stack and offers use cases like:

Production Debugging

Remote Debugging Kubernetes Cluster, Pods, and Containers

Cut Monitoring Costs with Dynamic Logging

You can find the whole list here:

Use Cases

Sidekick Actions

• Tracepoint
• Logpoint
• Error Stack Collection
• Reference Events & Probe Tags

Getting Started

Getting Started with Sidekick

Agents

Node.js

Java

Python

IDEs & Extensions

• Sidekick Web IDE
• Visual Studio Code Extension
• IntelliJ IDEA Plugin
• PyCharm Plugin
• WebStorm Plugin

Tracing Integration

• Open-Telemetry
• Thundra APM