US Patent 9632913 Remote debug service in a cloud environment

A method provides a debug service in a network environment. One or more processors initiate a debug service as a remote shared service in the network environment. The debug service receives a call from a deployed workload process within a virtual machine in the network environment, and gathers required information for a debug session of the workload process, where the required information includes source code used by the workload process. One or more processors attach the debug service to the workload process to carry out the debug session, such that the debug service working with a debug agent at the workload process attaches to and debugs a virtual environment that obscures the virtual machine.