Using the Monitor Utility for Debugging

Use the Monitor utility to dynamically start and stop monitoring, change the events being monitored from the defaults set in the Control Panel, and convert the log folders created by the Monitor utility into human readable text files which show the details of each event in the order in which the events happened.

RTX64 Monitor allows you to trace the behavior of your real-time applications by recording significant events that occur during execution of those applications. The events are written to disk, where they are grouped into sessions. Each session corresponds to a single folder that contains one or more files containing events generated during that session. A new session begins each time monitoring is started, and the current session ends each time monitoring is stopped.

NOTE: Monitoring causes as much as one microsecond of latency depending on the real time operation. It is recommended that you only enable and start monitoring during development and that you disable monitoring in production. The amount of latency depends on how many kinds of events are being monitoring and how frequently those events occur in real-time applications. Monitoring fewer kinds of events reduces the impact of monitoring on latency.