Breakpoint Tasks
Data Redaction
An admin can define data redaction rules to limit the information collected by Rookout Breakpoints.
In Breakpoint Settings -> Data Redaction the admin can define Regular Experession patterns to be blacklisted.
For example, adding a rule for the variable name “secretKey” will replace the output “secretKey”:“12345” with “secretKey”:“[REDACTED]“.
Adding a rule regarding the variable value “[0-9]+” will replace “nameAndPassword”:“LordHelmet-12345” with “nameAndPassword”:“LordHelmet-****“.
Replacing the data redaction method to “whitelist” will redact all variables, except the specified variable names and values that were whitelisted. Please notice that the data redaction settings will apply only to breakpoints that were set following the configuration change.
The regular expressions expected syntax is the RE2. Please notice that use of flags is currently unsupported, while case-insensitive flag ((?i)) can be added to a rule by unchecking the case-sensative checkbox next to it.
Collection level
Collection level is set to minimize the performance impact of collecting variables in a frame that has complex objects, huge strings and infinite reference loops. Setting Collection level will ensure that only variables at the top of the variable tree will be fetched.
To ensure that a specific variable is collected despite being deep in the variable tree, use the Collect Variable functionality.
Default limits for each variable:
| Variable type | Python | Node.js | Java | DotNet |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| String or Buffer size | 512B | 512B | 512B | 512B |
| Collection size | 20 | 10 | 20 | 20 |
| Object level | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| Collection level | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
When you want to collect a variable that is out of the Collection limit, you can:
- Right-click the variable and select "collect variable".
- Go to breakpoint editor and add the variable in the Collection section.
When Collection level has reached the limit, you expect to see the following messages:
Collection level exceeded (right click to collect)
Rate limiting
Rookout measures the time it takes for each breakpoint to run, and disallows additional runs if the total time taken by breakpoints exceeds the quota for a certain time window. By default, breakpoints are alotted 150ms of runtime over the last twenty seconds (20000ms).
Maximum execution time limit
Rookout sets a time limit on fetching data when a Breakpoint is hit to reduce the risk of performance degragation.
If a Breakpoint reaches the time limit for a specific app instance, the Breakpoint will be disabled for the instance and the Breakpoint status will become "Error".
Default value for this configuration is 400ms.
To change this configuration for a specific Breakpoint, change the value of maxAugTime to the desired number in milliseconds:
"maxAugTime" : 600
Auto-disable after global hit count limit
You can set a breakpoint to automatically disable after a global hit count is hit. By default, this feature is disabled.
This is a soft limit - once it is hit, the breakpoint will be disabled but it may take a short while for it to be received and handled by your app instances, so you may see more hits than your limit.
To change this configuration for a specific Breakpoint, in the aug section, change the value of globalHitLimit to the desired maximum hit count:
"globalHitLimit": 10
Auto-disable after date passes
You can set a breakpoint to automatically disable after a certain date passes. By default, this feature is disabled.
This is a soft limit - once it is hit, the breakpoint will be disabled but it may take a short while for it to be received and handled by your app instances, so you may see more hits after the date passes.
To change this configuration for a specific Breakpoint, in the aug section, change the value of globalDisableAfterTime to the desired date in UTC, in RFC 3339 format:
"globalDisableAfterTime": "2019-08-18T08:42:58.770788Z"
Including Packages
By default, Rookout doesn't set breakpoints inside the application's dependencies (node_modules for Node, site-packages for Python, inapplicable for JVM).
This setting may be changed at the repository level by following the instructions here.
Alternatively, you may change the value of includeExternals (under the location object) to true inside a specific breakpoint:
"includeExternals" : true
Maximum running time
As a matter of safety to your application, when a single breakpoint run takes more than a reasonable time to run, it is disabled permanently. When this happens, the breakpoint will need to be manually re-enabled using the IDE, perhaps also collecting less data to prevent the safety from re-triggering.
You can change the maximum amount of time allowed for a single run by setting:
"aug": {
"maxAugTime": "700"
}
Time is in milliseconds.
What's next?
To review the full Breakpoint API check out the Reference Section.