Investigative platform for software application development and production

A non-transitory computer readable medium including program instructions for execution on one or more processors, the program instructions configured to:

• instrument executable code of an application to capture traces of execution of the application on a computer node having a memory, wherein the executable code is instrumented in accordance with a capture configuration determining a fidelity of trace capture;
• establish one or more callbacks to a client library as one or more event-driven capture intervals of the traces during execution of the application, wherein the client library is loaded into a process of the application;
• capture the traces of execution during the capture interval via the callback to the client library according to the capture configuration, wherein the traces include symbolic information selected from symbols as labels representing one or more of methods, variables, data and state of the executable code;
• send the traces to an agent process via the callback to the client library, the agent process and application process executing on a same operating system;
• send, by the agent process, the traces to an analysis and persistent storage (APS) infrastructure to analyze the traces and render findings;
• and
• present the findings to a user via a user interface infrastructure.

A system comprising:

• a node including a processor and a memory, the memory including an application having executable code linked to a client library with program instructions configured to,
• instrument the executable code to capture traces of execution of the application according to a capture configuration determining a fidelity of trace capture;
• establish one or more callbacks to the client library as one or more event-driven capture intervals of the traces during execution of the application, wherein the client library is loaded into a process of the application;
• capture the traces of execution during the capture interval via the callback to the client library according to the capture configuration, wherein the traces include symbolic information selected from symbols as labels representing one or more of methods, variables, data and state of the executable code;
• send the traces to an agent process via the callback to the client library, the agent process and application process executing on a same operating system;
• send, by the agent process, the traces to an analysis and persistent storage (APS) infrastructure to analyze the traces and render findings;
• and
• present the findings to a user via a user interface (UI) infrastructure.