Salesforce Lightning Inspector

For inspecting Lightning apps

The Salesforce Lightning Inspector is a powerful Chrome extension designed specifically for developers working with Salesforce Lightning Components. It provides deep insights into your running Lightning applications by allowing you to easily inspect and navigate the structure of components, track the firing and handling of events, and analyze performance bottlenecks via detailed timing graphs.

Key features include a component tree viewer, server interaction debugging tools, a transactions grid with graphical timelines, and a Lightning Stylesheet Previewer. It also offers enhanced navigation and search capabilities within components, helping developers streamline debugging and optimize their applications effectively. This extension is compliant with Google policy and works exclusively with Salesforce URLs, ensuring safe and targeted usage.

Manifest V2 Extension
By:
Salesforce
Users:
40,000
Rating:
2.66
(47)
Version:
1.0.11 Last updated: 2021-03-20
Creation date:
2020-07-26
Risk:
Low risk impact Moderate risk likelihood
Permissions:
  • contextMenus
  • http://*.force.com/*
  • https://*.force.com/*
  • http://*.salesforce.com/*
  • https://*.salesforce.com/*
Size:
9.14M
Email:
ch*****@salesforce.com
URLs:
Privacy policy
Full description:
See detailed description
Source:
Chrome Web Store
Updated:
a day ago

User reviews

Salesforce Lightning Inspector is praised as an essential tool for troubleshooting and monitoring Salesforce Lightning Components, especially its Action and Event tracking. However, many users face frequent crashes, inconsistent functionality across devices, errors in performance features, and a lack of certain usability improvements. Despite its value, these persistent bugs and UI problems hinder its effectiveness and reliability.
Pros
  • Extremely useful and essential for troubleshooting Salesforce Lightning Components.
  • Helps massively in diagnosing problems with Apex and Lightning callbacks.
  • Monitoring Actions and Events is a valuable feature of this extension.
Cons
  • Frequently crashes and fails to load properly, often showing blank or infinite loading screens.
  • Does not work consistently across different machines or Chrome versions; many users report it not functioning at all.
  • Has errors related to performance tab, such as 'Error getting marks inspected window'.
  • Missing key functionality like managing site access and dark theme option.
  • User interface issues including non-working search, horizontal scrolling problems, and non-adjustable panels leading to hidden content.
Recent reviews
Please add an ability to manage site's that app can access. It doesn't work in community if enhanced domains are on.
by Dm*****, 2023-06-27

I would give it 10 stars if I could
by Ca*****, 2023-03-21

Незаменимое расширение!
by Vl*****, 2022-11-02
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Salesforce Lightning Inspector requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details
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Risk likelihood

Salesforce Lightning Inspector is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this extension.

Risk likelihood analysis details
  • High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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