# Intellij-elixir phoenix debugger error **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions\ **Tags:** phoenix, code-editors, intellij\ **Created:** [March 18, 2018, 3:31am UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/intellij-elixir-phoenix-debugger-error/13165 "2018-03-18T03:31:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![NobbZ](https://forum.elixirforum.com/user_avatar/forum.elixirforum.com/nobbz/32/27235_2.png) [@NobbZ](https://forum.elixirforum.com/u/NobbZ)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2018, 9:33am UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/intellij-elixir-phoenix-debugger-error/13165/2 "2018-03-18T09:33:40Z")
> [@Ripster](#): > > I’d like to be able to set break points and use the debugger. You can’t do this in any available IDE, also there is not much effort put into this as step-by-step-debugging has a lot of drawbacks in the concurrent world. There are tools available in the erlang eco-system that do allow to do step-by-step debugging, but I never used them with elixir. Also I only tried once or twice with erlang, I realized nearly instantly that I am not able to analyze where, what and why I am doing during the timeouts of dependent processes and so during debugging the main reason for failure was simply me not beeing able to debug in nanoseconds… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/intellij-elixir-phoenix-debugger-error/13165)._