Practical guides for backend troubleshooting with Unfour

Unfour Guides explain when to use a workflow, why each step matters, and how to solve a concrete backend problem. They connect API symptoms, server evidence, database state, and local-first decisions without repeating product feature pages or setup documentation.

Choose the problem that matches your current investigation. Each guide gives a direct answer, a repeatable decision path, realistic trade-offs, verification steps, and links to the relevant feature and documentation pages.

Start with the problem you need to solve

Guide 1

Backend Troubleshooting with MCP

How can MCP help troubleshoot a backend issue safely?

Use an evidence-first loop across API requests, server state, and database state while keeping scope and high-risk actions under user control.

Read the MCP troubleshooting guide

Guide 2

How to Debug API Errors Across API, SSH, and Database

How do you trace an API error through the server and database?

Start from a reproducible request, follow its evidence into the runtime and persisted state, then verify the result with the original request.

Read the API error debugging guide

Guide 3

Local-First Backend Development

What does local-first mean for backend development?

Separate local workspace data and credentials from the remote systems you access and the optional cloud services you choose to enable.

Read the local-first development guide

Guides solve problems; Features and Docs answer different questions

Use the shortest path to the answer you need. The sections link to each other when a problem moves from decision-making into product details or setup.

Features — What / Why

Understand what a released Unfour capability does, its boundaries, and why it matters.

Explore features

Docs — How

Install, configure, and use the released API, SSH, Database, and MCP capabilities.

Read documentation

Guides — When / Why / Solve

Choose a workflow for a concrete symptom, decision, trade-off, or troubleshooting problem.

Browse guides

Move from the guide into the workspace

Download Unfour to apply the workflow, or open the documentation for product setup and operating details.