Percepio Detect™
Continuous Observability for Embedded Software Testing
Catch Elusive Issues Early. Skip the Painful Reproduction. Debug with Ease.
Percepio Detect™ brings Continuous Observability® targeting crashes and stability risks in RTOS-based embedded software. Built for seamless integration into your in-house testing, CI/CT pipelines, and field testing, Detect helps your development team spot and solve issues early—long before they reach production.
With Detect, you can capture detailed insights right at the first sign of trouble, helping you speed up debugging and reduce the need for difficult issue reproduction. It’s a game-changer for those sporadic, hard-to-reproduce bugs that can otherwise derail your project. With Detect, “nightmare bugs” become quick fixes.
Moreover, Percepio Detect helps you discover hidden stability risks, such as ”near misses” and timing anomalies due to multi-threading issues, that otherwise would go undetected. Monitor software timing and resource usage, set warning thresholds, and get instant, detailed insight into anomalies—understanding not just what happened, but why.
Collaborate for Faster Progress and Superior Quality
Percepio Detect is a team solution that enables collaborative debugging through a shared server and web-based dashboard. This makes it easy to track stability risks, analyze performance, and share insights across development and testing teams. By integrating Percepio Detect into continuous testing workflows, software teams can automatically collect and analyze alerts on runtime performance as part of their CI/CT pipeline. Unlike traditional debugging methods that rely on reproducing errors, Detect captures issues as they occur, making debugging faster and more efficient.
Percepio Detect provides integrated Tracealyzer support and provide traces on detected issues, without needing to stream out all the trace data to the host. Detect runs independently on the device, even in the field, and monitors system stability with minimal performance impact. Detect also provides core dumps with the call stack, for example on hard fault exceptions. Tracealyzer can also be used as a stand-alone tool for continuous trace streaming during debug sessions. Together, these tools provide deep, layered observability for embedded software teams. When extended with Percepio DevAlert for DevOps-observability in deployment, you cover the full product lifecycle ensuring the stability, integrity and efficiency of your RTOS-based systems.
Key highlights
- Capture crashes and risks in real time for systematic visibility
- Debug faster with automatic crash dumps and system traces
- Reduce debugging time by up to 90%
- Monitor your system over unlimited time
- Detect timing and multithreading issues
- Integrates seamlessly into CI/CT workflows
- Private on-premise server for full control over sensitive data
Verify, Detect, Resolve—Release with Confidence
Intermittent errors are challenging to debug due to limited initial information and difficulty in reproducing them. Percepio Detect provides deep observability on crashes, errors, and other detected issues and risks from the very first observation. Get visual RTOS traces on multithreading issues and see call-stacks, function arguments and variables on hard faults.
Percepio Detect also enables systematic monitoring of software timing and resource usage over unlimited time without high-bandwidth trace streaming. Performance metrics are tracked on the device in real time and trigger alerts when warning levels are exceeded. For high confidence results, monitoring can be active in field testing over many days or weeks and alerts can be stored on the device, surviving crashes and restarts.
Percepio Detect monitoring can be included in your regular integration testing to find multithreading risks early and with minimal effort.
Continuous Observability® by Percepio
Percepio Detect is a core component of Percepio’s Continuous Observability portfolio, providing deep software insights across all development stages. Whether used during unit testing, integration testing, or in-field monitoring, Detect helps teams build more reliable, maintainable, and high-performing embedded systems.
Let your Observability Driven Development (ODD) journey begin today!
Continous Observability with Percepio DevAlert
Percepio also provides a DevOps solution for continuous observability in deployment, Percepio DevAlert. This provides the same deep observability as Percepio Detect using the same device integration. So by using Detect during internal testing you can enable DevAlert for production devices with minimal effort.