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Remote debugging

Attaching a debugger over a network socket to a process running in a container, on another machine or in a shared environment, rather than one launched locally by the IDE.

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IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2 changes the log expression on a running server without a redeploy

JetBrains' walkthrough finds a discount bug in a containerised gRPC server by attaching a debugger on port 5005 and editing log expressions between requests. Those expressions run inside the server's VM.

Publishers:blog.jetbrains.com

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