Overview

Astute Inspect Overview

Astute Inspect is the fastest way to understand what is happening inside a DDS domain without switching between logs, packet captures, and ad-hoc scripts.

It gives developers a live operational picture of:

  • who is publishing and subscribing
  • what QoS each endpoint actually offers/requests
  • whether endpoints are matched or mismatched
  • how much traffic each topic is moving
  • what values are flowing through selected fields

This directly reduces investigation time during integration, interoperability testing, and production diagnostics.

Install Astute Inspect from the dedicated Installation page.

Documentation Map

Use this section in the following order:

  1. Installation for OS-specific package setup
  2. Overview for product value and architecture of the workspace
  3. Feature Tour for pane-by-pane capability details
  4. Live Analysis Workflows for repeatable debugging playbooks

This structure is designed so new users can go from first launch to practical troubleshooting quickly.

Astute Inspect full workspace with process trees, live windows, schema, and graph panel

Why Teams Adopt It

1. Faster Root-Cause Analysis

Instead of asking "is this a network problem, a QoS problem, or a type problem?", Astute Inspect lets you answer in one screen by combining:

  • topology context
  • endpoint-level QoS evidence
  • diagnostics feed
  • real traffic rates

2. Interop Confidence During Vendor Mixes

When running AstuteDDS with other DDS stacks, Astute Inspect highlights where behavior diverges, including endpoint matching and QoS compatibility.

QoS mismatch analysis across Shapes topics with red incompatibility indicators

3. Better Signal for Large Systems

Process View and DDS Entities filtering let developers isolate one process or topic quickly, instead of manually scanning thousands of entities.

Process view close-up showing topic and endpoint counters per process

Core Workspace Layout

Astute Inspect is optimized for parallel debugging workflows:

  • Left: Process View and DDS Entities trees with search
  • Center: topology canvas with tabbed diagrams
  • Right: Entity Details, Match Analysis, and Type Schema
  • Bottom: Traffic Statistics, Diagnostics, and Graph tabs

Topic-focused topology plus traffic table and entity details panel

What You Can Resolve Quickly

  • Missing data because readers and writers never match
  • QoS incompatibilities that silently block communication
  • Throughput regressions after code or configuration changes
  • Topic-level behavior changes across releases
  • Type/schema confusion in mixed IDL and non-IDL environments

Practical Developer Impact

  • Shorter integration cycles because mismatches are visible immediately
  • Faster triage because topology, diagnostics, QoS, and traffic are correlated in one workspace
  • Better release confidence through screenshot-backed evidence for regressions and fixes

Continue to Feature Tour for a deep walkthrough of each pane and to Live Analysis Workflows for practical investigation playbooks.