Troubleshooting Series – Ep4 – Event Recorder
The Event Recorder is a Business Central troubleshooting tool that captures all events during a specific process by starting and stopping recording. It helps developers and troubleshooters identify performance issues, validate functional behavior, debug customizations, understand extension behavior, and document system processes.
Key points
- Event Recorder captures events in order of execution with event type classification and can generate AL code snippets to subscribe to events
- Useful for identifying performance problems by revealing excessive event calls, duplicate triggers, or heavy subscribers
- Helps verify functional behavior by showing which validations or functions actually execute during business processes
- Displays events from all extensions including third-party apps, making it valuable for understanding extension interactions and conflicts
- Can support documentation and knowledge sharing by creating reproducible traces of system behavior
Context
- Features: Event Recorder, Events discoverability, AL code generation, Event tracing, Extension monitoring
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