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Observe the erlang vm with :observer

Elixir and Erlang can have fairly complex process organization structures, but they can be inspected with the observer tool.

You can start the observer tool with:

iex > :observer.start

And then you'll have access to a gui with tabs labled:

System

Load Charts

Memory Allocations

Applications

Processes

Table Viewer

Trace Overview

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