Percepio is pleased to announce the launch of Percepio Detect, a tool that redefines how embedded software developers tackle testing, debugging, and observability challenges.
Supporting the new best practice of Observability Driven Development (ODD), Percepio Detect facilitates next-generation DevOps for embedded software by extending the capabilities of existing Continuous Integration and Continuous Testing (CI/CT) processes. Designed for Edge devices and real-time systems, Percepio Detect empowers developers with real-time anomaly and brittleness risk detection, and actionable debugging insights, while offering businesses a quantum leap in product quality and reliability.
Percepio Detect is engineered to make life easier for embedded software engineers by addressing critical challenges in modern development workflows through the following features:
- Detect anomalies early: Monitor runtime performance during testing to identify subtle ‘near misses’ and other stability risks that might otherwise evade detection
- Debug faster and proactively: Automatically capture detailed diagnostic snapshots – complete with core dumps, call stacks, and system traces – on the first occurrence of issues, saving days or weeks of debugging time. Analyse real forensic data from the system under actual execution and occurrence of anomalies
- Empower teams: With a centralised server dashboard and remote access, teams can collaborate seamlessly to resolve issues in real time, even on production hardware
“This tool is like adding an advanced early warning system to your embedded software projects. Percepio Detect ensures developers catch anomalies before they escalate into costly problems,” said Johan Kraft, CTO and Founder of Percepio. “For example, you would know when the watchdog timer has timed out, but more critically for quality assurance, you’d be notified if defined safety margins are breached.”
Percepio Detect represents an opportunity to stay ahead in the competitive and heterogenous embedded systems market, where increasing complexity and connectivity demand advanced observability solutions from the start of every project. With comprehensive testing of products before market release becoming impracticable, every software-centric business needs to adhere to the Observability Driven Development paradigm.
- Rapidly growing market opportunity: With the global market for embedded systems projected to surpass $200 billion by 2026, demand for observability solutions is booming across industries – not just in safety-critical applications
- Scalable on-premises solution: Built to accommodate diverse hardware and software configurations, Percepio Detect integrates seamlessly into local development environments without relying on Cloud services. This offers unparalleled flexibility, data privacy and security
- Return on investment: By reducing debugging cycles and preventing reliability issues in production, Percepio Detect delivers substantial time and cost savings, increasing profitability for organisations. It also helps companies meet emerging cybersecurity regulations that require continuous monitoring of system behaviour and performance. Designing with observability in mind from the outset can save businesses from costly risks downstream
“While Cloud-native companies like Dynatrace and Splunk focus on large-scale IT environments, we’re bringing deep observability to the Edge, where real-time insights are critical,” commented Andreas Lifvendahl, CEO of Percepio. “Percepio Detect demonstrates our commitment to enabling Observability Driven Development (ODD) for the embedded community, helping them achieve faster, more reliable development-and-test iterations and higher quality software.”
The rise of RTOS-based embedded systems has brought new complexities, which includes multithreading errors and sporadic stability issues. Traditional testing methods often fail to address these challenges effectively. Percepio Detect fills this gap by delivering proactive observability tailored to the nuances of embedded systems, making it an essential tool in today’s development, CI/CT and deployment lifecycles.
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