# didi/rdebug

Rdebug — Real Debugger

Repository: https://github.com/didi/rdebug
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/rdebug
Language: PHP
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2019-12-24T02:52:05+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2757, "days_push": 2444, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1157, forks 169 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:48.345142+00:00)

## What it is
Rdebug is a tool chain for recording real production traffic and replaying it against non-production environments to test and debug PHP microservices. Its midi CLI replays recorded sessions so developers can refactor and verify APIs without mocking downstream services.

## Use cases
- record production traffic for php services
- replay recorded http sessions to test refactored apis
- regression test microservices without mocks
- debug php-fpm applications with real requests
- compare old and new api responses using real traffic

## When to choose
- you maintain a php microservice with existing production traffic you can record
- you are refactoring an old api and want confidence it behaves identically
- you want to avoid hand-writing mocks for downstream services

## When to avoid
- you are building a brand-new api with no recorded traffic
- your stack is not php
- you need an actively developed tool with recent releases

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: testing, e2e-testing, mocking, developer-tools
- domain: testing, developer-tools, microservices, backend
- platform: php, cli
- tags: traffic-recording, traffic-replay, record-and-replay, php, microservices-testing, regression-testing, linux, macos, docker

## Member repositories
- didi/rdebug (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:48.345142+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:32:01.997179+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/didi/rdebug (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:48.345142+00:00, sha 55cdd2a55394)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.