Best Debugging Tools with a Free Trial
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What are Debugging Tools with a Free Trial?
Debugging tools, also known as debuggers, are software tools that enable web developers and software developers to debug their code and applications in order to improve the quality and security of the code and application. Compare and read user reviews of the best Debugging tools with a Free Trial currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Bugfender
Beenario
Remote logger, crash reporter and in-app user feedback Bugfender is a log storage service for application developers. Bugfender collects everything happening in the application, even if it doesn’t crash, in order to reproduce and resolve bugs more effectively and provide better customer support. Bugfender respects your user's privacy, is battery and network efficient and keeps logging even if the device is offline. Track and destroy bugs before users even notice. Bugfender logs all bugs on all devices and sends the results in seconds - enabling you to find and fix bugs before your users even get an error message. Achieve 5-Star Ratings. Bugfender doesn’t just log bugs and crashes. It logs all the information you’ll ever need so you can build a clear picture of your users and earn those crucial five-star ratings. Deliver world-class customer service. Our logging tool enables you to target individual users and provide personalized customer support.Starting Price: €29 per month -
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Scout Monitoring
Scout Monitoring
Scout Monitoring is Application Performance Monitoring (APM) that finds what you can't see in charts. Scout APM is application performance monitoring that streamlines troubleshooting by helping developers find and fix performance issues before customers ever see them. With real-time alerting, a developer-centric UI, and tracing logic that ties bottlenecks directly to source code, Scout APM helps you spend less time debugging and more time building a great product. Quickly identify, prioritize, and resolve performance problems – memory bloat, N+1 queries, slow database queries, and more – with an agent that instruments the dependencies you need at a fraction of the overhead. Scout APM is built for developers, by developers, and monitors Ruby, PHP, Python, Node.js, and Elixir applications. -
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Bugsnag
Bugsnag
Bugsnag monitors application stability so you can make data-driven decisions on whether you should be building new features, or fixing bugs. We are a full stack stability monitoring solution with best-in-class functionality for mobile applications. Rich, end-to-end diagnostics to help you reproduce every error. A simple and thoughtful user experience for all your apps in one dashboard. The definitive metric for app health — the common language for product and engineering teams. Not all bugs are worth fixing. Focus on the ones that matter to your business. Extensible libraries with opinionated defaults and countless customization options. Subject matter experts who care deeply about error reduction and the health of your apps.Starting Price: $59 per month -
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Ambassador
Ambassador Labs
Ambassador Edge Stack is a Kubernetes-native API Gateway that delivers the scalability, security, and simplicity for some of the world's largest Kubernetes installations. Edge Stack makes securing microservices easy with a comprehensive set of security functionality, including automatic TLS, authentication, rate limiting, WAF integration, and fine-grained access control. The API Gateway contains a modern Kubernetes ingress controller that supports a broad range of protocols including gRPC and gRPC-Web, supports TLS termination, and provides traffic management controls for resource availability. Why use Ambassador Edge Stack API Gateway? - Accelerate Scalability: Manage high traffic volumes and distribute incoming requests across multiple backend services, ensuring reliable application performance. - Enhanced Security: Protect your APIs from unauthorized access and malicious attacks with robust security features. - Improve Productivity & Developer Experience -
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Rollbar
Rollbar
Discover, predict, and resolve errors in real-time. Go beyond crash reporting, error tracking, logging and error monitoring. Get instant and accurate alerts — plus a real-time feed — of all errors, including unhandled exceptions. Our automation-grade grouping uses machine learning to reduce noise and gives you error signals you can trust.Starting Price: $19.00/month -
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Airbrake
Airbrake
Capture and track application exceptions in minutes with Airbrake, an error monitoring and detection solution. Fast and effective, Airbrake enables users to quickly identify, asses and resolve errors such as parameters, stacktraces, affected users, and more. Airbrake features detailed dashboards that tracks and manages errors with ease. Airbrake is also accessible via mobile devices with its mobile optimized web application.Starting Price: $49.00/month -
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Telepresence
Ambassador Labs
Telepresence streamlines your local development process, enabling immediate feedback. You can launch your local environment on your laptop, equipped with your preferred tools, while Telepresence seamlessly connects them to the microservices and test databases they rely on. It simplifies and expedites collaborative development, debugging, and testing within Kubernetes environments by establishing a seamless connection between your local machine and shared remote Kubernetes clusters. Why Telepresence: Faster feedback loops: Spend less time building, containerizing, and deploying code. Get immediate feedback on code changes by running your service in the cloud from your local machine. Shift testing left: Create a remote-to-local debugging experience. Catch bugs pre-production without the configuration headache of remote debugging. Deliver better, faster user experience: Get new features and applications into the hands of users faster and more frequently.Starting Price: Free -
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Errsole
Errsole
1) Minimal Setup: Just include the Errsole package in your code—no need for dedicated servers, software installations, or complicated configurations. 2) Logger++: Errsole automatically collects all logs from the Node.js console. Additionally, it provides advanced logging functions that support multiple log levels and the ability to attach metadata to logs. 3) Log Viewer: View, filter, and search through your logs using the built-in Web Dashboard. Secure authentication and team management features ensure that only you and your team can access the logs. 4) Critical Error Notifications: Get immediate notifications when your app crashes or encounters critical errors. The notification includes the error message, the app name, the environment, the server name, and a direct link to view the error in your logs.Starting Price: 0 -
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EasyQA
ThinkMobiles
In order to start catch crashes which can appear in you Android or iOS applications, you need to integrate EasyQA Software Development Kit with the code of your apps. To download SDK and find full instructions on connecting it to a project, you can open the Integrations page within your project in EasyQA Test Management Tool. When you connect the SDK to your project, use the generated token and initialize it in the application class of your project. After that you can create your app’s build and upload it in Test Objects within your project in EasyQA and your application starts to send crashes to the service. After you have added our EasyQA SDK into your project and uploaded it to Test Objects within your project in EasyQA, you can track your app’s crashes on our website. You just need to download the app to any Android or iOS device and start testing. When there is a crash, reboot the app and press Upload button.Starting Price: $10 per user per month -
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Honeycomb
Honeycomb.io
Log management. Upgraded. With Honeycomb. Honeycomb is built for modern dev teams to better understand application performance, debug & improve log management. With rapid query, find unknown unknowns across system logs, metrics & traces with interactive charts for the deepest view against raw, high cardinality data. Configure Service Level Objective (SLOs) on what users care about so you cut-down noisy alerts and prioritize the work. Reduce on-call toil, ship code faster and keep customers happy. Pinpoint the cause. Optimize your code. See your prod in hi-res. Our SLOs tell you when your customers are having a bad experience so that you can immediately debug why those issues are happening, all within the same interface. Use our Query Builder to easily slice and dice your data to visualize behavioral patterns for individual users and services (grouped by any dimensions).Starting Price: $70 per month -
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ReSharper
JetBrains
The Visual Studio Extension for .NET Developers. On-the-fly code quality analysis is available in C#, VB.NET, XAML, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, HTML, and XML. You'll know right away if your code needs to be improved. Not only does ReSharper warn you when there's a problem in your code but it provides hundreds of quick-fixes to solve problems automatically. In almost every case, you can select the best quick-fix from a variety of options. Automated solution-wide code refactorings help you safely change your code base. Whether you need to revitalize legacy code or put your project structure in order, you can rely on ReSharper. You can instantly navigate and search through the whole solution. Jump to any file, type, or type member, or navigate from a specific symbol to its usages, base and derived symbols, or implementations.Starting Price: $12.90 per user per month -
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DebugBear
DebugBear
DebugBear keeps track of your site speed and Core Web Vitals. Monitor the performance of your website and benchmark against the competition. Get alerted in Slack or by email when there's a problem. DebugBear is built on top of Google's Lighthouse tool, but provides additional in-depth debug data for developers. It also keeps track of the real-user Core Web Vitals metrics that Google uses for their search rankings.Starting Price: $96 per year -
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SmartBear AQTime Pro
SmartBear
Debugging should be simple. AQTime Pro synthesizes complex memory and performance information into digestible, actionable insights so you can quickly find bugs and their root cause. Finding and squashing highly differentiated bugs is tedious and complicated, but AQTime Pro makes it easy. With over a dozen profilers, you can find memory leaks, performance bottlenecks, code coverage gaps and more in just a few clicks. AQTime Pro enables you to squash all bugs with one tool and get back to making high quality code. Don’t let code profilers box you in with a single codebase or framework and prevent you from finding performance bottlenecks, memory leaks, code coverage gaps unique to your project. AQTime Pro is the one tool to use across multiple codebases and frameworks in a project. It has broad language support for C/C++, Delphi, .NET, Java and more.Starting Price: $719 one-time payment -
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Spark Inspector
Spark Inspector
With a three-dimensional view of your app's interface and the ability to change view properties at runtime, Spark can help you craft the best apps on earth. Wiring your app together with notifications? Spark's notification monitor shows you each NSNotification as it's sent, complete with a stack trace, a list of recipients and invoked methods, and more. Understand app structure at a glance and debug smarter. Connect your app to the Spark Inspector, and you'll see your app's interface front and center. As you interact with your app, the inspector updates in real-time! We monitor every change to your app's view hierarchy so you can always see what's going on. The view of your app you see in Spark isn't just beautiful, it's completely editable. You can modify almost every property of your views, from their class-level attributes to their CALayer transforms. When you make a modification, Spark invokes a method call within your app to directly modify that property.Starting Price: $49.99 one-time payment -
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Squish
Qt Group
Squish is the tool of choice for several thousand companies worldwide to automate the functional regression tests and system tests of their graphical user interface (GUIs) and human machine interfaces (HMIs). The Squish GUI testing tool, a 100% cross-platform tool, features. Automated cross-browser GUI testing for Web and HTML5 applications on desktop, mobile and embedded platforms. Automated GUI Testing for native macOS applications including support for embedded Webkit content.Starting Price: €82.50 per user per month -
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Polar Signals
Polar Signals
Polar Signals cloud is an always-on, zero-instrumentation continuous profiling product that helps improve performance, understand incidents, and lower infrastructure costs. With just one command and the easiest onboarding guide you’ll ever see, you can start saving costs and optimizing performance in your infrastructure. Travel back in time to pinpoint incidents and issues. Profiling data provides unique insight and depth into what a process executed over time. Utilize profiling data collected over time to confidently and statistically identify hot paths for optimization. Many organizations have 20-30% of resources wasted with code paths that could be easily optimized. Polar Signals Cloud employs an exceptional blend of technologies, purpose-built to deliver the profiling toolset essential for today's evolving infrastructure and applications. With a zero instrumentation setup, deploy immediately and reap the benefits of actionable observability data.Starting Price: $50 per month -
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Buglab
Buglab
Automatically detect bugs and UI/UX discrepancies. Finding bugs is not only difficult but repetitive and boring too. With Buglab, you can easily detect UI/UX issues in websites, platforms, and web apps by automating the testing process. Accelerate development, and ensure client-facing software quality effortlessly while focusing on the important aspects of your business. Find UI bugs before they cost you. Buglab automates website testing by allowing you to simulate any kind of user action with just a few clicks, and without writing a single line of code. You can create any suitable sequence, to ensure your website changes are not causing any bugs or functionality changes. Once a test has been set, the system will display the results and highlight the differences between your base, and the new version of your website. Group your tests in logical suites and projects, and schedule them with different schedules.Starting Price: $39 per month -
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Instabug
Instabug
Instabug provides in-app feedback and bug reporting to mobile apps. After integrating the SDK, it allows you to have seamless two-way communication with users or testers while providing detailed environment report for developers. The integration process takes less than a minute and the results are outstanding! The top apps in the world rely on Instabug. We provide exceptional support 24/7 and is constantly rated highly as a bug reporting & tracking tool. Expand your mobile team's understanding of performance and user experience to enable faster fix times, precise performance metrics and error prioritization. With visibility into 100% of user sessions, quickly prioritize to focus on the issues that matter most to you and your user’s experience. Quickly integrate instabug to your apps with a single line of code. Instabug enables your team to find the balance between new feature development and stability.Starting Price: $83.00/month -
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Sentry
Sentry
From error tracking to performance monitoring, developers can see what actually matters, solve quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. With Sentry’s performance monitoring you can trace performance issues to poor-performing api calls and slow database queries. Source code, error filters, stack locals — Sentry enhances application performance monitoring with stack traces. Quickly identify performance issues before they become downtime. View the entire end-to-end distributed trace to see the exact, poor-performing API call and surface any related errors. Breadcrumbs make application development a little easier by showing you the trails of events that lead to the error(s).Starting Price: $26 per month -
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AWS X-Ray
Amazon
AWS X-Ray helps developers analyze and debug production, distributed applications, such as those built using a microservices architecture. With X-Ray, you can understand how your application and its underlying services are performing to identify and troubleshoot the root cause of performance issues and errors. X-Ray provides an end-to-end view of requests as they travel through your application, and shows a map of your application’s underlying components. You can use X-Ray to analyze both applications in development and in production, from simple three-tier applications to complex microservices applications consisting of thousands of services. -
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Google Cloud Debugger
Google
Real-time application debugging: Cloud Debugger is a feature of Google Cloud that lets you inspect the state of a running application in real time, without stopping or slowing it down. Your users are not impacted while you capture the call stack and variables at any location in your source code. You can use it to understand the behavior of your code in production, as well as analyze its state to find those hard-to-find bugs. -
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Backtrace
Backtrace
Don’t let app, device, or game crashes get in the way of a great experience. Backtrace takes all the manual labor out of cross-platform crash and exception management so you can focus on shipping. Cross-platform callstack and event aggregation and monitoring. Process errors from panics, core dumps, minidumps, and during runtime across your stack with a single system. Backtrace generates structured, searchable error reports from your data. Automated analysis cuts down on time to resolution by surfacing important signals that lead engineers to crash root cause. Never worry about missing a clue with rich integrations into dashboards, notification, and workflow systems. Answer the questions that matter to you with Backtrace’s rich query engine. View a high-level overview of error frequency, prioritization, and trends across all your projects. Search through key data points and your own custom data across all your errors. -
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Embrace
Embrace
Embrace turns complex mobile data into action. By collecting comprehensive session-level data for each and every user experience, Embrace extracts powerful insights to fuel your growth. Drive your aspirations of high-velocity teams and optimal user experiences via the only mobile-first data platform. Mobile is the center of your business because mobile is the center of your users’ lives. Covid has only hastened the mobile eventuality. Pick the only platform and team built for your mobile transformation, so you can deliver flawless user experiences that fuel upwards retention and revenue. Embrace surfaces the impact of both known and unknown issues automatically. Look up any user and inspect every technical detail and user action in a time-based visualization. Get straight to the root cause by instantly reproducing any issue on demand. Embrace only captures the behavioral and technical data required to empower actional decisions. -
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Lightrun
Lightrun
Add logs, metrics and traces to production and staging, directly from your IDE or CLI, in real-time and on-demand. Boost productivity and gain 100% code-level observability with Lightrun. Insert logs and metrics in real-time even while the service is running. Debug monolith microservices, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, ECS, Big Data workers, serverless, and more. Quickly add a missing logline, instrument a metric, or place a snapshot to be taken on demand. No need to replicate the production environment or re-deploy. Once the instrumentation is invoked, the data is printed to the log analysis tool, your IDE, or to an APM of your choice. Analyze code behavior to find bottlenecks and errors without stopping the running process. Easily add large amounts of logs, snapshots, counters, timers, function durations, and more. You won’t stop or break the system. Spend less time debugging and more time coding. No more restarting, redeploying and reproducing when debugging. -
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BotKube
BotKube
BotKube is a messaging bot for monitoring and debugging Kubernetes clusters. It's built and maintained by InfraCloud. BotKube can be integrated with multiple messaging platforms like Slack, Mattermost, Microsoft Teams to help you monitor your Kubernetes cluster(s), debug critical deployments and gives recommendations for standard practices by running checks on the Kubernetes resources. BotKube watches Kubernetes resources and sends a notification to the channel if any event occurs for example ImagePullBackOff error. You can customize the objects and level of events you want to get from the Kubernetes cluster. You can turn on/off notifications. BotKube can execute kubectl commands on the Kubernetes cluster without giving access to Kubeconfig or underlying infrastructure. With BotKube you can debug your deployment, services or anything about your cluster right from your messaging window. -
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TotalView
Perforce
TotalView debugging software provides the specialized tools you need to quickly debug, analyze, and scale high-performance computing (HPC) applications. This includes highly dynamic, parallel, and multicore applications that run on diverse hardware — from desktops to supercomputers. Improve HPC development efficiency, code quality, and time-to-market with TotalView’s powerful tools for faster fault isolation, improved memory optimization, and dynamic visualization. Simultaneously debug thousands of threads and processes. Purpose-built for multicore and parallel computing, TotalView delivers a set of tools providing unprecedented control over processes and thread execution, along with deep visibility into program states and data. -
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CodeRush
DevExpress
Try your first CodeRush feature right now and see instantly just how powerful it is. Refactoring for C#, Visual Basic, and XAML, with the fastest test .NET runner available, next generation debugging, and the most efficient coding experience on the planet. Quickly find symbols and files in your solution and easily navigate to code constructions related to the current context. CodeRush includes the Quick Navigation and Quick File Navigation features, which make it fast and easy to find symbols and open files. Using the Analyze Code Coverage feature, you can discover what parts of your solution are covered by unit tests, and find the at-risk parts of your application. The Code Coverage window shows percentage of statements covered by unit tests for each namespace, type, and member in your solution.Starting Price: $49.99 one time payment -
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Shoreline
Shoreline.io
Shoreline is the Cloud Reliability platform — the only platform that lets DevOps engineers build automations in an afternoon, and fix issues forever. Shoreline reduces on-call complexity by running across clouds, Kubernetes clusters, and VMs allowing operators to manage their entire fleet as if it were a single box. Debugging and repairing issues is easy with advanced tooling for your best SREs, automated runbooks for the broader team, and a platform that makes building automations 30X faster. Shoreline does the heavy lifting, setting up monitors and building repair scripts, so that customers only need to configure them for their environment. Shoreline’s modern “Operations at the Edge” architecture runs efficient agents in the background of all monitored hosts. Agents run as a DaemonSet on Kubernetes or an installed package on VMs (apt, yum). The Shoreline backend is hosted by Shoreline in AWS, or deployed in your AWS virtual private cloud. -
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Arm DDT
Arm
Arm DDT is the number one server and HPC debugger in research, industry, and academia for software engineers and scientists developing C++, C, Fortran parallel and threaded applications on CPUs, GPUs, Intel, and Arm. Arm DDT is trusted as a powerful tool for the automatic detection of memory bugs and divergent behavior to achieve lightning-fast performance at all scales. Cross-platform for multiple servers and HPC architectures. Native parallel debugging of Python applications. Has market-leading memory debugging. Outstanding C++ debugging support. Complete Fortran debugging support. Has an offline mode for debugging non-interactively. Handles and visualizes huge data sets. Arm DDT is a powerful parallel debugger, available standalone or as part of the Arm Forge debug and profile suite. Its intuitive graphical interface provides automatic detection of memory bugs and divergent behavior at all scales. -
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Arm Forge
Arm
Build reliable and optimized code for the right results on multiple Server and HPC architectures, from the latest compilers and C++ standards to Intel, 64-bit Arm, AMD, OpenPOWER, and Nvidia GPU hardware. Arm Forge combines Arm DDT, the leading debugger for time-saving high-performance application debugging, Arm MAP, the trusted performance profiler for invaluable optimization advice across native and Python HPC codes, and Arm Performance Reports for advanced reporting capabilities. Arm DDT and Arm MAP are also available as standalone products. Efficient application development for Linux Server and HPC with Full technical support from Arm experts. Arm DDT is the debugger of choice for developing of C++, C, or Fortran parallel, and threaded applications on CPUs, and GPUs. Its powerful intuitive graphical interface helps you easily detect memory bugs and divergent behavior at all scales, making Arm DDT the number one debugger in research, industry, and academia.