Time Detective

What happened at 11:15? Find out in one click.

Understand and debug issues faster with Time Detective. See a snapshot of all relevant monitoring data at a specific moment in time.

Available with a shortcut

Press Cmd + / to launch Time Detective anywhere in AppSignal. Time Detective will open in an overlay on top of your current view.

Full debugging context

Get the full picture fast. Time Detective gives you an instant overview of errors, performance, metrics, logs, and host metrics.

Understand issues faster

Time Detective helps you understand issues faster. Dive deep from a helicopter view to issue-specific details.

Pinpoint problems

No more searching for clues. See everything in one place.

Time Detective replaces searching with precise minutely snapshots. Instantly access the data you need from any point in time to discover what went wrong, and where.

All the data you need, in one place.

Full context

All the data you need, in one place.

Time Detective gives you all the debugging data you need. Navigate between detailed snapshots for:

  • Errors
  • Performance Incidents
  • Alerts
  • Host metrics
  • Logs (per severity and source)
Navigate through time

Time travel

Navigate through time

Use Time Detective to navigate past performance metrics. Spot trends and find relevant data. Jump to any specific hour or minute, and gain a detailed overview of everything that occurred at that exact moment.

Dive deep into issues

Helicopter view

Dive deep into issues

Time Detective gives you a helicopter view of your data. Once you find relevant data, dive deeper into the details to investigate further and debug issues faster.

How to use

Available from anywhere.

Time Detective is available from anywhere in AppSignal. Launch it from an incident, a graph, or any page to instantly see a snapshot of your application's performance at that exact moment in time.

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From any issue

Time travel from anywhere in AppSignal. Press Command or Ctrl + / to instantly launch Time Detective, showing the exact time of the incident or page you launched it from.

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From any log line

Wondering what caused a specific log line? Launch Time Detective to get an instant snapshot of your app's data at the exact moment the log was generated.

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From any graph

Curious what caused the spikes in your graph? Click on any point of the graph to launch Time Detective and investigate what triggered performance changes.

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