--- title: Medium | daily.dev description: A developer shares the motivation behind building Lens, a tool aimed at unifying the fragmented debugging experience in modern software. The core problem: when... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/medium-wgnxrdsbp twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Medium | daily.dev og:description: A developer shares the motivation behind building Lens, a tool aimed at unifying the fragmented debugging experience in modern software. The core problem: when... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/medium-wgnxrdsbp og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/WgNXrDsBp.png og:image:alt: Medium og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Medium **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer shares the motivation behind building Lens, a tool aimed at unifying the fragmented debugging experience in modern software. The core problem: when something breaks, developers must piece together context from logs, debuggers, tracing platforms, and database logs separately. Lens aims to provide a single coherent view of how a request moves through a system without constant context-switching. The project is being built in public as open source. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Visual debugging, tracing, and replay for agent workflows.](https://daily.dev/posts/visual-debugging-tracing-and-replay-for-agent-workflows--ejsuxxwbi) · Product Hunt · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [AgentLens: Debug Agentforce with Interactive Visualizations](https://daily.dev/posts/agentlens-debug-agentforce-with-interactive-visualizations-nep8pxcxt) · Salesforce Developers Blog · 2 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#devtools](https://daily.dev/tags/devtools), [#observability](https://daily.dev/tags/observability), [#distributed-systems](https://daily.dev/tags/distributed-systems) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/medium-wgnxrdsbp) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Medium","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/medium-wgnxrdsbp","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/medium-wgnxrdsbp"},"datePublished":"2026-07-26T19:30:35.793Z","dateModified":"2026-07-26T19:32:04.823Z","description":"A developer shares the motivation behind building Lens, a tool aimed at unifying the fragmented debugging experience in modern software. The core problem: when...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--58gMhC4P--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2012","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--58gMhC4P--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2012","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Medium","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Medium","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/medium","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/medium-wgnxrdsbp","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"devtools,observability,distributed-systems","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Medium","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Medium"}]} ```