similar projects

[MasseGuillaume]

@ouven @blstream

Hi guys,
it look like you are working on something really similar

https://index.scala-lang.org/ouven/akka-visualmailbox
https://index.scala-lang.org/blstream/akka-viz

[ouven]

Hi,

my approach is meant to be less intrusive. So I use no dependencies and you can start visualizing without recompiling your artefacts. As this is one of the primary design goals https://github.com/ouven/akka-visualmailbox has less visualisation opportunities then this project.

[lustefaniak]

Hi @ouven @MasseGuillaume
To use akka-viz you don't need to recompile anything, we use runtime weaving, all you need is just add akka-viz jar dependency and make sure you run with AspectJ weaver. (or use the sbt-plugin)

Our plan for akka-viz was to make it more like debugger for Akka, to make developers life easier. Thats why you can see internal state of the actors, payload of exchanged messages and have Websocket REPL to experiment with the actors. You can enable monitoring when you need it - for example when you notice some kind of deadlock in actor systems - with akka-viz disabled (you can toggle that using web UI) overhead shouldn't be too big.

Unfortunately in recent months development halted as we moved to different projects/companies. If you have any comments, questions or ideas how to review that project, or what features you would like to see please share.