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System auto-documentation

Multiplayer automatically discovers, tracks, and documents your components, APIs, dependencies, and environments. No manual diagramming required.

As you debug issues with full stack session recordings, Multiplayer reverse-engineers your entire system architecture in the background and displays in the system dashboard.

How it works​

When you configure Multiplayer, we extract backend information from full stack session recordings to automatically map your system in real-time.

The system dashboard visualizes your entire architecture at a glance, presenting components, APIs, dependencies, and environments in table or diagram format. It updates automatically whenever your real-world system changes.

Why use the system dashboard​

Get immediate system clarity

Understand your entire system from the 10,000-foot view down to individual components, APIs, and dependencies. An always-accurate architecture diagram helps understand context for technical issues, assess downstream consequences of bug fixes, and take proactive measures before problems escalate.

Eliminate manual documentation overhead

Maintaining accurate architecture diagrams and docs becomes nearly impossible as systems change, especially in distributed environments with geographically dispersed teams. Multiplayer continuously discovers and documents your system automatically, keeping documentation current without manual intervention.

Focus on coding and innovation instead of drawing diagrams or holding alignment meetings about system changes.

Reverse-engineer legacy systems

Legacy systems are notoriously opaque due to missing documentation, complex interdependencies, and departed developers. Multiplayer automatically generates an accurate architecture overview, empowering your team to resolve technical issues, modernize systems, address technical debt, and safely evolve infrastructure.

Preserve institutional knowledge

Protect against knowledge loss from undocumented tribal knowledge, outdated docs, or employee turnover. Multiplayer centralizes and automatically documents your system architecture, ensuring critical insights remain accessible without relying on specific individuals.

Prevent architectural technical debt

Without a clear, current view of your system, uninformed changes quickly accumulate as technical debt. Multiplayer provides the visibility needed to make safe, informed decisions and evolve your system proactively.

Streamline onboarding and offboarding

Accelerate new developer onboarding with accurate, visual system representations instead of outdated docs. During offboarding, retain critical knowledge through documented system evolution and design decisions.

Simplify security assessments

Streamline threat modeling and third-party audits by identifying architectural vulnerabilities early and continuously. Clear, up-to-date visual representations improve collaboration with security teams and auditors.

System dashboard vs diagramming tools​

Multiplayer is a full stack session recorder designed to transform debugging and support workflows. The system dashboard complements session recordings by providing a real-time, accurate view of your entire system.

Traditional diagramming tools (Lucidchart, Visio, Miro, FigJam) create static abstractions of specific system portions. While these worked when software systems were simpler, today's microservices, SaaS integrations, APIs, and legacy technology create complexity that general-purpose diagramming tools can't adequately capture.

Diagramming tool limitations:

  • No real-time updates: Static diagrams can't track dynamic system changes
  • Clunky interfaces: Updating diagrams wastes time on formatting boxes and arrows
  • Disconnected from workflows: Developers need system context while debugging, designing features, or addressing technical debt, not in a separate tool
  • Missing key information: Diagrams rarely connect to actual components, dependencies, and APIs with relevant metadata

Multiplayer addresses these issues with real-time architecture information integrated into your debugging workflow.

Whiteboarding and sketching are excellent ways of sharing ideas quickly, which is why Multiplayer supports sketches on session recordings to immediately align with your team.

Next steps​

👀 If this is the first time you’ve heard about us, you may want to see full stack session recordings in action. You can do that in our free sandbox: sandbox.multiplayer.app

🚀 If you’re ready to trial Multiplayer with your own app, you can follow the Multiplayer configuration steps. You can start a free plan at any time: go.multiplayer.app

📌 If you have any questions shoot us an email or join us on Discord! 💜