📄️ Getting started
The N|Solid IDE extension brings N|Solid monitoring, NodeSource Certified Modules (NCM) package data, and AI-assisted diagnostics into Visual Studio Code. This page covers installing the extension, signing in, installing the AI toolkit, mapping your workspace to an application, and connecting that application to the N|Solid Console.
📄️ Telemetry
The Telemetry view in the N|Solid IDE extension shows live data for the applications reporting to your N|Solid Console, and raises alerts when an application's CPU, memory, or event loop metrics spike. To open it, click the N|Solid icon in the Activity Bar and expand Telemetry.
📄️ NodeSource Certified Modules
The N|Solid IDE extension brings NodeSource Certified Modules (NCM) package data into the editor so you can check package quality, review vulnerabilities, audit dependency trees, and decide whether to upgrade or replace a package. This page covers the NCM Actions view, the inline NCM features, and the NCM chat commands.
📄️ Reports
The Reports view in the N|Solid IDE extension lists the analysis reports the extension has saved, such as security audits, lockfile analyses, package checks, and profile, asset, and event analyses. Use it to preview a report, open the full file, or delete reports you no longer need.
📄️ Events
The Events view in the N|Solid IDE extension shows runtime events from your N|Solid Console, especially blocked and exited processes, and can alert you in the editor when a serious event occurs. This page covers how events are grouped, how alerting works, the alert settings, and how to investigate an event.
📄️ Asset Directory
The Asset Directory view in the N|Solid IDE extension lists the diagnostic assets in your N|Solid Console, grouped by application, so you can download them into your workspace and hand them to an AI agent for analysis. Assets include CPU profiles, heap snapshots, heap profiles, and heap samples.
📄️ Agent skills
The N|Solid IDE extension installs agent skills from the NodeSource AI toolkit into your workspace. Skills give the AI agent step-by-step guidance for common N|Solid tasks, such as investigating runtime events, analyzing assets, benchmarking functions, and reviewing dependencies. This page explains what skills are, how they're installed, and which chat commands use them.
