CloudDebug utilizes the Amazon Web Services on-demand infrastructure in order to provide a slim and flexible framework for debugging and logging distributed applications. The framework is composed of extensions to state-of-the-art Java tools and libraries, such as log4j and JMS.

Amazon's Simple Queue Service (SQS) is used as a simple, yet powerful Message-Oriented-Middleware and Amazon's SimpleDB serves as a means to store Context data needed in the framework.

Current project status: Alpha.

Overview

Traditional logging with log4j + JMS + Middleware System:

A novel approach to logging with log4j + (JMS) + SQS: