Looking at the state of processes in Elixir

When debugging gen_server, gen_statem and gen_event processes it can be helpful to take a look at the state.

Its easy to do this in Elixir by calling out to Erlangs sys.get_state/1:

iex(1)> defmodule Example, do: use GenServer
iex(2)> {:ok, pid} = GenServer.start_link(Example, %{ping: "pong"})
iex(3)> :sys.get_state(pid)
%{ping: "pong"}

For more common sys debugging functions, take a look here