Quick Start to Sidekick

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If you like to know how Sidekick works, take the following guided tour which you can learn how to start debugging your apps in just 5 mins:
Getting Started with ToDo App
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If you want to use your own app, you can follow these steps:
1) Create a Sidekick account 
Sign Up for Thundra Sidekick
2) Install the Thundra agent.  
Installation
If you are not familiar with how to install an agent, we strongly recommend you to watch our tutorial.​
3) Connect the source code of your running app
Connect Source Code
4) Set a Tracepoint on Sidekick Web IDE
Set Tracepoints
You can also use our IntelliJ IDEA Plugin to debug your application right from your IDE
5) The next time the line you have set the Tracepoint on will be invoked, Thundra Sidekick will take the Snapshot of your app
Take Snapshots (a.k.a Tracepoint Events)
6) Complete Visibility by Distributed Tracing
Integrate Debugging with Distributed Tracing
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Welcome to Sidekick

Next - Installation

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1) Create a Sidekick account

2) Install the Thundra agent.

3) Connect the source code of your running app

4) Set a Tracepoint on Sidekick Web IDE

5) The next time the line you have set the Tracepoint on will be invoked, Thundra Sidekick will take the Snapshot of your app

6) Complete Visibility by Distributed Tracing