Sidekick is an open-source live application debugger that enables software developers to easily add logs, and non-breaking breakpoints to their running applications and feed the results to any target they want such as Elastic, Loki, and more. Sidekick Open Source is here to allow self-hosting and make live debugging more accessible. Built for everyone who needs extra information from their running applications.

You can use Sidekick at any stage of your development for your live debugging & logging needs. With Sidekick you can: Debug your remote application (monoliths or microservices on Kubernetes, Docker, VMs, or Local) and collect actionable data from your remote application: - Add logs to your production apps without redeploying or restarting - Cut your monitoring costs with on-demand & conditional logpoints & tracepoints - On-board new developers by showing how your apps work using real-time data. - Observe Event-Driven Systems with ease - Programmatically control where and when you collect data from your applications - Either use Sidekick's Web IDE, VS Code, PyCharm, WebStorm, and IntelliJ IDEA extensions to control your Sidekick Actions or use a headless client to bring Sidekick to your workflow in any way you want! - Evaluate the impact of an error on applications with integrated distributed tracing. - Collaborate with your colleagues by sharing snapshots taken by Sidekick. - Reduce the time spent context-switching between different tools.