[Urgent Help] How to debug backend server codes directly

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Hi, grafana is very powerful and useful! We’re customizing dashboard these days, but find that it’s hard to debug backend server codes, because of following scenes:

  1. Develop with command:make run:
    Grafana would watch codes and build a ‘grafana-server.exe’ to execute server. If codes modified(for example, add a log for debugging), grafana will rebuild a ‘gafana-server.exe’ to execute server, but the time takes about 30 seconds, which are too long(on windows, computer’s hardware performance is also high enough)

  2. Develop with command go run pkg/cmd/grafana-server/main.go directly:
    With no luck, errors threw.

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But if there’s a way to run server codes directly(without generating a grafana-server.exe), we’re able to debug server codes even using breakpoints like this:

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Can you provide a guide about how to debugg backend server codes directly? Or can you tell us how your team debug the server codes?

Grafana version: 7.4.0-pre

Thank you!

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Grafana team helps on github: https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/29459