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Background
I have been for trying to make observer work for ages now without success. So in my search for alternatives, I found a hex package called observer_cli.
It is a library that once executed gives you all the information of the app like observer does, but via a CLI. This means I can put it in the production machine and see it live, without any pesky ssh tunnels nor anything. Like htop but for BEAM.
Problem
There are actually 2 problems:
- This seems to require
iexto run (all the examples use it) but the production machine does not have elixir, only erlang. - It is a library and needs to be inside a project.
Question
How do I turn observer_cli into a standalone executable that I can run in machine containing only erlang?
I have seen they have a escriptize but I don’t know what that means, nor do I understand the instructions (rebar3?)
Would appreciate some help.
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van-mronov
If use distillery release you can start remote console by
<your app name> remote_console.And then run
observer_cliby:observer_cli.start.Fl4m3Ph03n1x
The idea is to use it locally, and no we don’t use distillery
van-mronov
By use it locally, you mean run
observer_clion your dev machine and connect to remote prod server? In that case I guess you have to resolve the same problems as with GUIobserver.Fl4m3Ph03n1x
I mean I am in the production machine, and I want to attach it to the running application and check it.