Google Home Debugging Tools: Overview

Key Takeaways

one of the important steps in the development cycle is debugging and monitoring for smart home actions we have several tools available to make this process easier for you smart home analytics is a set of tools available on google cloud platform to monitor your project metrics and analyze your logs and test suite is an online tool that creates an automated test plan for your devices and executes it against your smart home integration both of these tools are available today you can use them with the cloud integration for smart home as well as with meta projects if we open up a quick note on matter our tools will give the ability to monitor outages and quality issues in production insights into errors and with that the ability to troubleshoot issues in a self-serve manner and a streamlined way to test your implementation to validate your changes and updates metrics are counters that represent the user interactions with your devices and provide breakdowns on various components and logs are json-like strings that contain the details for those interactions which is especially useful for things like storing an error message i did put a high level example for both on the slide you see the metric contains the aggregate data and the log provides details like device type trades and error message so essentially we think the metrics can help you to determine where your action is having trouble and logs are useful when making a deep dive to solve these problems our goal is to create a debugging loop using these tools where you start by checking the metrics see the gap in your success rate identify your top error and search this in your logs to see the error description and hopefully you'll be able to utilize that info to fix the issue there are lots of metrics we provide to your project by the way such as the success percentage 95 percentile latencies daily active users air breakdowns and so on check out the resources link below if you have any questions or if you want to see what everyone is building join us on reddit or follow us on twitter thanks for watching