View Source observer (observer v2.16)
A GUI tool for observing an Erlang system.
Observer is a graphical tool for observing the characteristics of Erlang
systems. The tool Observer displays system information, application supervisor
trees, process information, ETS tables, Mnesia tables, and contains a front end
for Erlang tracing with module ttb
.
For details about how to get started, see the User's Guide
.
Summary
Functions
start() -> ok
start(Node) -> ok
start_and_wait() -> ok
start_and_wait(Node) -> ok
stop() -> ok
Functions
-spec start() -> ok | {error, term()}.
start() -> ok
Starts the Observer GUI. To stop the tool, close the window or call stop/0
.
start(Node) -> ok
Starts the Observer GUI and tries to connect it to Node
.
-spec start_and_wait() -> ok.
start_and_wait() -> ok
Starts the Observer GUI and only return when it is either stopped or the window is closed
start_and_wait(Node) -> ok
Starts the Observer GUI and only return when it is either stopped or the window
is closed, connects it directly to Node
like start/1
.
-spec stop() -> ok.
stop() -> ok
Stops the Observer GUI.